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Paul Szypryt (Assoc)

Paul Szypryt is a research physicist within the NIST Quantum Sensors Group. He joined NIST as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in 2017 and was awarded the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship (RTF) in 2022. Early in his career at NIST, he developed transition-edge sensor (TES) based x-ray instrumentation for the NIST electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Beamline 13-3, producing results in diverse areas of research such as quantum electrodynamics, laboratory astrophysics, and high temperature superconductivity. Additionally, as part of the IARPA Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nanoelectronics (RAVEN), he helped to develop a novel tomography tool to three-dimensionally map integrated circuits with nanoscale features. As part of this effort, he led the development of a 3,000-pixel TES x-ray spectrometer, the largest superconducting spectrometer ever built. More recently, his research have focused on utilizing superconducting resonators in support of precision measurements. This includes using thermal kinetic inductance detectors (TKIDs) for charged particle detection and the novel kinetic inductance current sensor for TES readout. Potential applications here include nuclear physics, quantum information science, and exoplanet atmosphere spectroscopy.

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Charge-exchange processes in EBIT: implications for spectral analysis of few-electron Fe ions

Author(s)
Yang Yang, FNU Dipti, Amy Gall, Nancy Brickhouse, Hunter Staiger, Galen O'Neil, Paul Szypryt, Adam Foster, David Schultz, Aung Naing, Joseph Tan, Daniel Swetz, Michael Fogle, Randall Smith, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
Charge-exchange recombination with neutral atoms significantly influences the ionization balance in electron beam ion traps (EBIT) because its cross section is

Spectroscopic Measurements and Models of Energy Deposition in the Substrate of Quantum Circuits by Natural Ionizing Radiation

Author(s)
Joseph Fowler, Paul Szypryt, Raymond Bunker, Ellen Edwards, Ian Fogarty Florang, JIANSONG GAO, Shannon Hoogerheide, Ben Loer, Hans Mumm, Nathan Nakamura, John Orrell, Elizabeth M. Scott, Jason Stevens, Daniel Swetz, Brent VanDevender, Michael Vissers, Joel Ullom
Naturally occurring background radiation is a potential source of correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits that will challenge error-correction

Kinetic inductance current sensor for visible to near-infrared wavelength transition-edge sensor readout

Author(s)
Paul Szypryt, Douglas Bennett, Ian Fogarty Florang, Joseph Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Andrea Giachero, Ruslan Hummatov, Adriana Lita, John Mates, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler
Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for
Created October 16, 2019, Updated October 11, 2023
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