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Michael Link (Fed)

Michael Link is a physical scientist in the Quantum Sensors group within the Quantum Electromagnetics division at NIST, where his focus is on superconducting microdevice fabrication and process development. Since joining the group in 2018, he has been primarily involved in the fabrication and development of superconducting transition edge sensor polarimeters for use in Cosmic Microwave Background measurements.

Research interests

  • Cosmic Microwave Background detector fabrication
  • Superconducting microdevice development and fabrication

Selected Publications

Tape head with thin tape bearing surface coating
J Li, MJ Link
US Patent 9,311,954

Tape drive with metal oxide interface between tape and tape head
J Li, MJ Link
US Patent 10,056,097

The Simons Observatory large aperture telescope receiver
N Zhu, T Bhandarkar, G Coppi, AM Kofman, JL Orlowski-Scherer, Z Xu, ...
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 256 (1), 23

Detector fabrication development for the LiteBIRD satellite mission
B Westbrook, C Raum, S Beckman, AT Lee, N Farias, T Sasse, A Suzuki, ...
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter

Google Scholar Profile

Publications

Demonstration of a 1,820 channel microwave superconducting quantum1 interference device multiplexer for transition-edge sensor bolometers

Author(s)
John Groh, Jason Austermann, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Johannes Hubmayr, Richard Lew, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, John Mates, Robinjeet Singh, Joel Ullom, Leila Vale, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Michael Vissers
The scalability of most transition-edge sensor arrays is limited by the multiplexing technology which combines their18 signals over a reduced number of wires
Created August 24, 2019, Updated October 11, 2023
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