Superconductors

News and Updates

NIST’s Grid of Quantum Islands Could Reveal Secrets for Powerful Technologies

November 17, 2022

The grids provided playing fields in which electrons could behave in nearly ideal, textbook-like conditions.

Detecting mid-infrared light, one photon at a time

June 1, 2021

For some 30 years, scientists have used superconducting materials to record the tiniest specks of light imaginable — individual photons, or single particles of

Square wood box with multicolored wires arranged in ever-smaller squares inside and three small plastic strips attached in several places.

NIST Sensor Experts Invent Supercool Mini-Thermometer

November 17, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a miniature thermometer with big potential applications, such as

Events

Quantum Matters in Materials Science Workshop

Wed, Feb 21 - Thu, Feb 22 2024

As a part of the JARVIS workshops series, NIST is organizing the 3rd Quantum Matters in Materials Science (QMMS)

Projects and Programs

Ab initio theoretical modeling for predicting structure and properties in advanced materials

Ongoing

We develop first-principles-based methods for prediction of atomic arrangements and properties in advanced materials and develop tools for the prediction and

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing

To provide the necessary information for electronic material manufacturers to predict how and when failures will occur and enable lifetime analysis appropriate

Measurements of Point-Defect Chemistry in Complex Oxides

Ongoing

All inorganic materials contain point defects in the form of impurities, interstitials, or vacancies. Common imaging techniques fail to capture these defects

Micrographs of kinetic inductance-based parametric amplifier

Amplifiers

Ongoing

To process information from quantum circuits and systems, it is important to have amplifiers with wide bandwidth, high dynamic range, and extremely low noise

Publications

Broadband microwave electrical transport spectroscopy for two-dimensional material systems

May 24, 2022

Author(s)

Antonio Levy, Neil M. Zimmerman

In recent years, interesting materials have emerged which are only available as µm-scale flakes, and whose novel physics might be better understood through

Laser-lithographically written micron-wide superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

March 23, 2022

Author(s)

Maximilian Protte, Varun Verma, Jan Philipp Hopker, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Tim Bartley

In this paper, we demonstrate our results on micron-wide tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated by laser lithography

Artificial intelligence for search and discovery of quantum materials

October 13, 2021

Author(s)

A. Gilad Kusne, Ichiro Takeuchi, Valentin Stanev, Johnpierre Paglione

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming indispensable tools in many areas of physics, including astrophysics, particle physics, and climate

Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 micron wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors

September 14, 2021

Author(s)

Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Yao Zhai, Heli C. Vora, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Boris Korzh, Alex Walter, Ryan Briggs, Marco Colangelo, Emma Wollman, Andrew Beyer, Jason Allmaras, D. Zhu, Ekkehart Schmidt, A. G. Kozorezov, Matthew Shaw

We developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on tungsten silicide (WSi) that show saturated internal detection efficiency up to

Awards

2020 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize - Sheng Ran

Dr Sheng Ran is recognised for his research on unconventional superconductivity and electronic phases, particularly his seminal

R. Joseph Kline Honored with Flemming Award

For his outstanding federal service through interdisciplinary research in the evolution of methods to determine the complex, three