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Approaches to the Optimal Nonlinear Analysis of Microcalorimeter Pulses

March 8, 2018
Author(s)
Joseph W. Fowler, Christine G. Pappas, Bradley K. Alpert, William B. Doriese, Galen C. O'Neil, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz
We consider how to analyze microcalorimeter pulses for quantities that are nonlinear in the data, while preserving the signal-to-noise advantages of linear optimal filtering. We apply the approach to compute the electrothermal feedback energy deficit (the

The Boltzmann Project

February 5, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel P. Benz, Joachim Fischer, Bernd Fellmuth, Christof Gaiser, Laurent Pitre, Fernando Sparasci, Lara Risegari, Roberto M. Gavioso, D M. Rippa, Bengt Hallstedt, Jifeng Qu, XiaoJuan Feng, Jianqiang Zhang, David R. White, L Gianfrani, A Castrillo, L Moretti, B Darquie, C Daussy, S Briaudeau, O Kozlova, J J. Segovia, M C. Martin, D del Campo, Michael R. Moldover
The International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), at its meeting in October 2017 followed the recommendation of the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU) on the redefinition of the kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole. For the redefinition of the

The NIST Johnson noise thermometry system for the determination of the Boltzmann constant

December 29, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Alessio Pollarolo, Kevin Coakley, Adam C. Weis, Anna Fox, Horst Rogalla, Weston L. Tew, Samuel Benz
In preparation for the redefinition of the International System of Units (SI), five different electronic measurements of the Boltzmann constant have been performed using different Johnson noise thermometry (JNT) systems over the past seven years. In this

Dependence of transition width on current and critical current in transition-edge sensors

December 7, 2017
Author(s)
Kelsey M. Morgan, Christine G. Pappas, Douglas A. Bennett, Johnathon D. Gard, James P. Hays-Wehle, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz
If transition-edge sensor (TES) X-ray detectors are to be useful in photon-rich environments,they must maintain high resolving power when pulse durations are engineered to be short, which is usually accomplished by increasing the thermal conductance (G)to

Simultaneous readout of 128 X-ray and Gamma-ray Transition-edge Microcalorimeters using Microwave SQUID Multiplexing

August 8, 2017
Author(s)
John Mates, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Johnathon Gard, James P. Hays-Wehle, Joseph Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Leila R. Vale, Joel Ullom
The number of elements in most cryogenic sensor arrays is limited by the technology available to multiplex signals from the array into a smaller number of wires and readout amplifiers. The largest demonstrated arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES)

An improved electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant by Johnson noise thermometry

July 18, 2017
Author(s)
Jifeng Qu, Samuel Benz, Kevin Coakley, Horst Rogalla, Weston L. Tew, David R. White, Kunli Zhou, Zhenyu Zhou
Recent measurements using acoustic gas thermometry have determined the value of the Boltzmann constant, k, with a relative uncertainty less than 110-6. These results have been supported by a measurement with a relative uncertainty of 1.910-6 made with

Cryogenic LED pixel-to-frequency mapper for kinetic inductance detector arrays

July 12, 2017
Author(s)
Jiansong Gao, Xiangliang Liu, W Guo, Wei L.F., Christopher M. McKenney, Bradley J. Dober, Tasha Billings, Johannes Hubmayr
We present a cryogenic wafer mapper based on light emitting diodes (LEDs) for mapping a large microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) array. In this scheme, an array of LEDs, addressed by DC wires and collimated through horns onto the detectors, are

Demonstration of efficient nonreciprocity in a microwave optomechanical circuit

July 6, 2017
Author(s)
Gabriel A. Peterson, Florent Q. Lecocq, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
Abstract The ability to engineer nonreciprocal interactions is an essential tool in modern communication technology as well as a powerful resource for building quantum networks. Aside from large reverse isolation, a nonreciprocal device suitable for

Fabrication of High-Speed and High-Density Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits at NIST

June 11, 2017
Author(s)
David Olaya, Paul Dresselhaus, Pete Hopkins, Samuel P. Benz
The development of a fabrication process for single-flux-quantum (SFQ) digital circuits is a fundamental part of the NIST effort to develop a gigahertz waveform synthesizer with quantum voltage accuracy. This paper describes the current SFQ fabrication

Scalable, High-Speed, Digital Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits at NIST

June 11, 2017
Author(s)
Pete Hopkins, Manuel Castellanos Beltran, Christine A. Donnelly, Paul Dresselhaus, David Olaya, Adam Sirois, Samuel P. Benz
We describe NIST's capabilities for designing and fabricating niobium-based single-flux quantum (SFQ) digital and mixed-signal circuits and show test results of our first circuits. We have assembled a package of software design tools that are readily

Bandwidth-enhanced superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for telecom wavelengths

May 13, 2017
Author(s)
Stephan Krapick, Marina Hesselberg, Varun Verma, Igor Vayshenker, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin
We present a single-photon detector providing system detection efficiencies of at least (86.7 ± 0.9) % from 1450 nm to 1640 nm. It comprises bilayer superconducting WSi nanowires in conjunction with all-dielectric structures for optical impedance matching

Broadband parametric amplifiers based on nonlinear kinetic inductance artificial transmission lines

April 11, 2017
Author(s)
Jiansong Gao, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Dale Li, Kent D. Irwin, Clint Bockstiegel, Weijie Guo, Xiangliang Liu, Johannes Hubmayr
We present broadband parametric amplifiers based on the kinetic inductance of superconducting NbTiN thin films and an artificial (lumped-element) transmission line architecture. We demonstrate two amplifier designs implementing two different phase matching

Superconducting Optoelectronic Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing

March 23, 2017
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We propose a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor hardware platform for the implementation of neural networks and large-scale neuromorphic computing. The platform combines semiconducting few-photon light-emitting diodes with superconducting-nanowire single

Advanced Waveform Synthesis with Pulse-driven Josephson Voltage Standards

February 21, 2017
Author(s)
Justus A. Brevik, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Anna E. Fox, Evan B. Golden, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We describe the implementation of new commercial pulse-bias electronics that have enabled an improvement in the generation of quantum-accurate waveforms both with and without low-frequency compensation biases. We have used these electronics to apply a

Compact 2.2 K Cooling System for Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

January 25, 2017
Author(s)
Vincent Y. Kotsubo, Ray Radebaugh, Sae Woo Nam, Joel N. Ullom, Brandon L. Wilson, Paul Hendershott, Micheal Bonczyski
We are developing a compact, low power, closed cycle cooling system for Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. The base temperature of the present prototype, which uses a helium-4 Joule-Thomson stage, is 2.2 K with over 1.2 mW of cooling. This

Extrapolative Scaling Expression: A Fitting Equation for Extrapolating Full Ic(B,T,e) Data Matrixes from Limited Data

January 4, 2017
Author(s)
John (Jack) W. Ekin, Najib Cheggour, Loren F. Goodrich, Jolene D. Splett, Bernardo Bordini, David Richter, Luca Bottura
Scaling analysis of several thousand Nb3Sn critical-current (Ic) measurements is used to derive the extrapolative scaling expression (ESE), a global fitting equation that can quickly and accurately extrapolate (or interpolate) limited datasets to obtain

On-Chip Temperature Distribution for Josephson Voltage Standards

November 22, 2016
Author(s)
Anna E. Fox, Evan B. Golden, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
A substrate surface temperature characterization for the National Institute of Standards and technology Josephson voltage standard has been performed by fabricating and measuring Josephson junction arrays with on-chip thermometry. Circuits were designed

Stochastic Single Flux Quantum Neuromorphic Computing using Magnetically Tunable Josephson Junctions

October 16, 2016
Author(s)
Stephen E. Russek, Christine A. Donnelly, Michael Schneider, Burm Baek, Matthew Pufall, William Rippard, Pete Hopkins, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
Abstract— Single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits form a natural neuromorphic technology with SFQ pulses and superconducting transmission lines simulating action potentials and axons, respectively. Here we present a new component, magnetic Josephson junctions

Code-division-multiplexed readout of large arrays of TES microcalorimeters

September 15, 2016
Author(s)
Kelsey M. Morgan, Bradley K. Alpert, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Young Il Joe, Galen C. O'Neil, Carl D. Reintsema, Edward V. Denison, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Daniel S. Swetz
Code-division multiplexing (CDM) offers a path to reading out large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) X-ray micro-calorimeters with excellent energy and timing resolution. We demonstrate the readout of X-ray TESs with a 32-channel flux-summed code

2 V Pulse-Driven Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

July 10, 2016
Author(s)
Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, Alain Rufenacht, Anna E. Fox, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We created a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) with a root-mean-square (rms) output magnitude of 2 V. This system is composed of two 1 V chips operating on a cryocooler. By controlling the relative phase of the two chips’ output voltage, we

10 Volt Automated Direct Comparison of Two Cryocooled Programmable Josephson Voltage Standards

July 9, 2016
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Yi-hua D. Tang, Paul Dresselhaus, Charles J. Burroughs, Robert E. Schwall, Samuel P. Benz
We have performed direct dc comparisons between two cryocooled 10 V programmable Josephson voltage standards utilizing an automated synchronization scheme for the voltage reversals, which enables the use of a high sensitivity null detector on its 3 µV

Direct comparison of a Pulse-driven Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer and a Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard at 1 Volt

July 9, 2016
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Anna Fox, Charles J. Burroughs, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz
We have performed direct ac comparisons between two types of quantum voltage standards, a pulse- driven Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer and a programmable Josephson voltage standard, at 1 V rms amplitude and a frequency of 100 Hz. The system

Simultaneous Double Waveform Synthesis with a Single Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

July 9, 2016
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz, Bryan C. Waltrip, Thomas L. Nelson
We have recently demonstrated new 2 V PJVS devices configured with two voltage outputs and two sets of least significant bits in order to simultaneously generate two independent stepwise output waveforms. This development improves upon our previous
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