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Tammy Lucas (Fed)

Tammy Lucas is a Chemical Engineer in the Quantum Sensors Group within the Quantum Electromagnetics Division at NIST where she conducts research on the novel nano/micro-fabrication of ultra-low temperature superconducting sensors and circuits with the focus on cosmology and high-energy astrophysics detectors. She holds several US patents related to cadmium telluride thin film solar and has authored/coauthored multiple peer reviewed conference and journal articles.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • T.J. Lucas et al., “Indium Bump Process for Low-Temperature Detectors and Readout.” Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2022-05-20, Journal article, DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02728-6
  • Zhilei Xu et al., “The Simons Observatory: The Large Aperture Telescope (LAT).” Research Notes of the AAS 5 (4), 100

AWARDED US PATENTS

  • 8,338,698 – Anisotropic conductive layer as a back contact in thin film photovoltaic devices
  • 8,187,912 – Methods of forming an anisotropic conductive layer as a back contact in thin film photovoltaic devices
  • 9,159,864 – Back contact paste with Te enrichment and copper doping control in thin film photovoltaic devices
  • 9,117,956 – Method of controlling the amount of Cu doping when forming a back contact of a photovoltaic cell

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 September 21, 2019, Updated October 11, 2023
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