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Fully transparent GaN/InGaN LED as a position sensitive detector

August 11, 2025
Author(s)
Christine McGinn, Keith Behrman, Emily Bittle, Pragya Shrestha, Qingyuan Zeng, Vikrant Kumar, Christina Hacker, Ioannis Kymissis
Commercial imaging technologies have an increasing need for an accurate, in-situ beam locator to ensure laser alignment during operation. In this work, gallium nitride LED with indium gallium nitride quantum wells is leveraged is leveraged to create a

280-GHz aluminum MKID arrays for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

May 29, 2025
Author(s)
Anna Vaskuri, Jordan Wheeler, Jason Austermann, Michael Vissers, James Beall, James R. Burgoyne, Victoria Butler, Scott Chapman, Steve K. Choi, Abigail Crites, Cody J. Duell, Rodrigo Freundt, Anthony Huber, Zachary Huber, Johannes Hubmayr, Jozsef Imrek, Ben Keller, Lawrence Lin, Alicia Middleton, Michael D. Niemack, Thomas Nikola, Douglas Scott, Adrian Sinclair, Ema Smith, Gordon Stacey, Joel Ullom, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Eve Vavagiakis, Samantha Walker, Bugao Zou
First light observations of the 280 GHz instrument module of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in the CCAT Collaboration are expected in 2026. The focal plane of this module will consist of three superconducting microwave kinetic inductance

EMI susceptibility of a differential time-division SQUID multiplexing circuit for TES readout

January 3, 2025
Author(s)
Malcolm Durkin, Douglas Bennett, William Doriese, Johnathon Gard, Johannes Hubmayr, Richard Lew, Erin Maloney, Carl Reintsema, Robinjeet Singh, Daniel Schmidt, Joel Ullom, Leila Vale, Michael Vissers
Time Division multiplexing (TDM) using superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) is being developed to read out Transition-edge sensor arrays for the Athena X-ray integral field Unit (X-IFU) and Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4, which have

Variable Gain DNA Nanostructure Charge Amplifiers for Biosensing

December 7, 2024
Author(s)
Jacob Majikes, Seulki Cho, Thomas Cleveland, James Liddle, Arvind Balijepalli
Electronic measurements of engineered nanostructures comprised solely of DNA (DNA nanostructures) enable new signal conditioning modalities in biosensing. Here, we demonstrate how these DNA nanostructures alter their conformation upon binding a nucleic

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

November 6, 2024
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 photon-number-resolving measurements in quantum information science. To be practical for large-scale

Fully integrated multifunctional sensor and open-source ASIC for flexible wearables

June 25, 2024
Author(s)
Anhang Li, Hongyi Wu, Ashbir Aviat Fadila, Chanho Kye, Arvind Balijepalli, Johan Euphrosine, Tim Ansell, Nigel Coburn, Sachin Nadig, Mehdi Saligane
The open-source hardware movement has made significant progress over the past few years. Increasingly, more individuals are engaging with and participating in the open-source chip design community - not only to design their own chips with the available

The Simons Observatory: Production-Level Fabrication of the Mid- and Ultra-High-Frequency Wafers

May 4, 2024
Author(s)
Shannon Duff, Jason Austermann, James Beall, David Daniel, Johannes Hubmayr, Gregory Jaehnig, Bradley Johnson, Dante Jones, Michael J. Link, Tammy Lucas, Rita Sonka, Suzanne Staggs, Joel Ullom, Yuhan Wang
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite in the Atacama Desert of Chile. More than 65,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers will be fielded in the frequency range spanning 27 to 280 GHz

BABAR-ERI: Black Array of Broadband Absolute Radiometers - Earth Radiation Imager

September 22, 2023
Author(s)
Chris Yung, Cameron Straatsma, Nathan Tomlin, David Harber, Odele Coddington, John H. Lehman, Michelle Stephens
BABAR-ERI is being developed for a CubeSat capable of imaging the Earth's outgoing longwave radiation with a 1 km ground sample distance (GSD) using a push-broom imager. The detector is a silicon micromachined 32-pixel linear array of electrical

Synthetic Aperture RF Reception using Rydberg Atoms

August 2, 2023
Author(s)
Nik Prajapati, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Matt Simons, Samuel Berweger, Drew Rotunno, Maitreyi Jayaseelan, Kaleb Campbell, Christopher L. Holloway
Rydberg atoms show great promise for use as self-calibrated electric field sensors for a broad range of frequencies. Their response is traceable to the international system of units making them a valuable tool for a variety of applications including

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck
Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray magnetic fields have a number of applications. SiC is attractive for UV SPADs as it is inherently

Cluster Association for 3D Environment Based on 60 GHz Indoor Channel Measurements

May 31, 2023
Author(s)
Raied Caromi, Jian Wang, Anuraag Bodi, Camillo Gentile
In this paper, we present a ray tracing (RT) assisted multipath cluster association method. This work is based on an indoor channel measurement at 60 GHz, where a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor was co-located with channel sounder and time

Trap-Integrated Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors with Improved RF Tolerance for Trapped-Ion Qubit State Readout

April 24, 2023
Author(s)
Benedikt Hampel, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma
State readout of trapped-ion qubits with trap-integrated detectors can address important challenges for scalable quantum computing, but the strong radio frequency (rf) electric fields used for trapping can impact detector performance. Here, we report on

Beating thermal noise in a dynamic signal measurement by a nanofabricated cavity-optomechanical sensor

March 15, 2023
Author(s)
Mingkang Wang, Diego Perez Morelo, Georg Ramer, Georges Pavlidis, Jeffrey Schwartz, Liya Yu, Robert Ilic, Andrea Centrone, Vladimir Aksyuk
Thermal fluctuations often impose both fundamental and practical measurement limits on high-performance sensors, motivating the development of techniques that bypass the limitations imposed by thermal noise outside cryogenic environments. Here, we

High-Resolution DNA Binding Kinetics Measurements with Double Gate FD-SOI Transistors

January 23, 2023
Author(s)
Seulki Cho, Alexander Zaslavsky, Curt A. Richter, Jacob Majikes, James Alexander Liddle, Francois Andrieu, Sylvain Barraud, Arvind Balijepalli
Double gate fully depleted SOI transistors operating in a remote gate configuration and under closed-loop feedback allow noise performance that exceeds their single gate counterparts by more than an order of magnitude. We leverage this high performance to

Radio Spectrum Occupancy Measurements Amid COVID-19 Telework and Telehealth

October 14, 2022
Author(s)
Dan Kuester, Xifeng Lu, Dazhen Gu, Azizollah Kord, Jake Rezac, Katie Carson, Marla L. Dowell, Elizabeth Eyeson, Ari Feldman, Keith Forsyth, Vu Le, John Marts, Mike McNulty, Kyle Neubarth, Andre Rosete, Matthew Ryan, Maija Teraslina
During the COVID-19 pandemic, NIST began a targeted campaign of measurements of averaged power and occupancy rate in the radio spectrum. The purpose was to sample real environments to offer timely insights into data infrastructure where it might be

Self-Driven Highly Responsive PN Junction InSe Heterostructure Near-Infrared Light Detector

June 30, 2022
Author(s)
Chandraman Patil, Chaobo Dong, Hao Wang, Hamed Dalir, Sergiy Krylyuk, Huairuo Zhang, Albert Davydov, Volker Sorger
Photodetectors converting light signals into detectable photocurrents are ubiquitously in use today. To improve the compactness and performance of next-generation devices and systems, low dimensional materials provide rich physics to engineering the light

High-performance dual-gate graphene pH sensors

June 28, 2022
Author(s)
Son Le, Seulki Cho, Alexander Zaslavsky, Curt A. Richter, Arvind Balijepalli
High precision biophysical measurements that are portable and performed without prior labeling of the molecules can greatly benefit several areas of biotechnology and biophysics, but existing techniques often lack sufficient resolution. Field-effect
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