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Aidan Hughes, Sung Yun Jun, Camillo Gentile, Derek Caudill, Jack Chuang, Jelena Senic
Due to high antenna directionality and channel sparseness, millimeter-wave receivers will detect much less multipath then their microwave counterparts, fundamentally changing the small-scale fading observed. In particular, the de facto Rayleigh-Rice model
Adam J. Sirois, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Anna E. Fox, Samuel P. Benz, Peter F. Hopkins
Quantum computers with thousands or millions of qubits will require a scalable solution for qubit control and readout electronics. Colocating these electronics at millikelvin temperatures has been proposed and demonstrated, but there exist significant
Dileep Venkatarama Reddy, Robert R. Nerem, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Varun Verma
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are an enabling technology for a myriad of quantum-optics experiments that require high-efficiency detection, large count rates, and precise timing resolution. The system detection efficiency (SDE)
Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Chiehping Lai, Derek Caudill, Jack Chuang, Nada Golmie
This paper describes the calibration of the Volcano ray-tracing engine against channel measurements collected in an urban environment with a 28 GHz directional channel sounder. Channel multi-path components were extracted from the measurements in the delay
Dazhen Gu, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Matthew J. Ryan, Anouk Hubrechsen
We present a general model of noise-influenced scattering (S) parameter measurements performed by a vector network analyzer (VNA). The residual error of the S-parameter due to the noise appears like a complex Gaussian quotient. The statistical analysis of
Daniel S. Barker, Alessandro Restelli, James A. Fedchak, Julia K. Scherschligt, Stephen P. Eckel
We present a design for a wide-bandwidth, voltage-controlled current source that is easily integrated with radiofrequency magnetic field coils. Our design uses current feedback to compensate for the frequency-dependent impedance of a radiofrequency antenna
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Ilya F. Budovsky, Samuel Benz
We have extended the voltage range of the Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer from 1 mV down to 1 μV at frequencies from 60 Hz to 1 kHz to calibrate precision lock-in amplifiers. Experimental results show that the system's uncertainty is dominated by
In this work, we study the electromagnetic scattering characteristics of asymmetric carbon nanotube (CNT) dimers. We show that the configurational asymmetry in the CNT dimer assembly creates a unique field distribution in the vicinity of the dimer, which
Jack Chuang, Jelena Senic, Chunmei Liu, Camillo Gentile, Sung Yun Jun, Derek Caudill
Millimeter-wave channel sounders are much more sensitive to phase drift than their microwave counterparts by virtue of shorter wavelength. This matters when coherently phasing (electronic or mechanical) antenna scans collected over seconds, minutes, or
In this paper, we describe the development, and application, of a suite of high-frequency electromagnetic wave (RF) based techniques to probe material and structural changes in copper interconnects in TSV enabled 3-D integrated circuits during high
Dan Kuester, Adam Wunderlich, Duncan McGillivray, Dazhen Gu, Audrey Puls
Tightly packaged receive systems pose a challenge for noise measurements. The only available receiver outputs are often user data: link benchmark or diagnostic information that can be scavenged with software. These could include data rate benchmark, self
Ahmed M. Hassan, Md Khadimul Islam, Spencer On, Bharath Natarajan, Itai Stein, Noa Lachman, Estelle Cohen, Brian L. Wardle, Renu Sharma, James Liddle, Edward Garboczi
In nearly all prior modeling studies of the electromagnetic properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, the three-dimensional (3D) shape and spatial distribution of the CNTs in the composite were unknown. Therefore, simplifying assumptions had to be
Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Joshua A. Gordon
With the re-definition of the International System of Units (SI) that occurred in October of 2018, there has recently been a great deal of attention in the development atom-base sensors for metrology applications. In particular great progress had been made
Permanent magnets together with yokes to concentrate the magnetic flux into a cylindrical air- gap are widely employed in Kibble balances. These experiments require a uniform magnetic flux density along a vertical path, typically a substantial fraction of
Qiang Sun, Evert Klaseboer, Alex Yuffa, Derek Y. Chan
A field-only boundary integral formulation of electromagnetics is derived without the use of surface currents that appear in the Stratton--Chu formulation. For scattering by a perfect electrical conductor (PEC), the components of the electric field are
Pathloss-model calibration is the practice of refining the nominal parameters of a model according to measurement samples collected in a specific area. It is a widely used by mobile providers to reduce prediction error up to tens of dBs depending on the
Time stability measurement methods applicable to millimeter wave channel sound are presented using standard parameters used for clock stability. Novel methods are developed to measure the stability of channel sound systems used to measure propagation and
Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Ian W. Haygood, Alex Wynn, Stephen E. Russek, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Peter F. Hopkins, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard
Josephson junctions act as a natural spiking neuron-like device for neuromorphic computing. By leveraging the advances recently demonstrated in digital single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits and using recently demonstrated magnetic Josephson junction (MJJ)
Anthony B. Kos, Fabio C. Da Silva, Jason B. Coder, Craig W. Nelson, Grace E. Antonucci, Archita Hati
Imaging solutions based on wave scattering seek real-time performance, high dynamic range, and spatial accuracy at scales spanning from nanometers to thousands of kilometers. Compressed sensing algorithms use sparsity to reduce sample size during image
Edward Garboczi, Sumitra Dey, Deb Chatterjee, Ahmed M. Hassan
Plasmonic nano-antennas are typically designed using RF-inspired parametric optimization process and/or using trial and error search algorithms which lack proper physical insight. In this study, we demonstrate how the Characteristic Mode Analysis (CMA)
Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, R P. Mirin, Emma Wollman, William Farr, Matthew Shaw
We present a 1024-element imaging array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) using a 32x32 row-column multiplexing architecture. Large arrays are desirable for applications such as imaging, spectroscopy, or particle detection.
Jasper A. Drisko, Richard A. Chamberlin, James C. Booth, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long
The series resistor is a common on-wafer device typically used in the series-resistor calibration and for estimating the capacitance per unit length of coplanar waveguide transmission lines. While much work has been done using series resistors, this paper
Christopher L. Holloway, Matthew T. Simons, Abdulaziz H. Haddab, Joshua A. Gordon, David R. Novotny
We demonstrate a Rydberg atom-based sensor embedded in a parallel-plate waveguide (PPWG) for amplitude and phase detection of a radio-frequency (RF) electric field. This embedded atomic sensor is also capable of receiving modulated communications signals
Roope J. Kokkoniemi, Joonas Govenius, Visa Vesterinen, Russell Lake, A M. Gunyho, K-Y Tan, S Simbierowicz, Leif Gronberg, J Lehtinen, M Prunnila, Juha Hassel, Antti Lamminen, O P. Saira, Mikko Mottonen
Since the introduction of bolometers more than a century ago, they have been used in various applications ranging from chemical sensors, consumer electronics, and security to particle physics and astronomy. However, faster bolometers with lower noise are
Matthew T. Simons, Abdulaziz H. Haddab, Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway
We demonstrate amplitude and phase measurements of an RF field in the near-field of a horn antenna using a Rydberg atom-based sensor embedded inside a waveguiding structure. This measurement uses the Rydberg atom-based sensor in a mixer configuration