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Recent advances in superconducting nanowire single-photon detector technology for exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the mid-infrared

Simone Frasca

The Origins Space Telescope mission concept includes an exoplanet transit spectrometer that requires detector arrays with ultrahigh pixel-to-pixel stability. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, or SNSPDs, have the potential to meet these stri ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2021

Performance of GaN Power Devices for Cryogenic Applications Down to 4.2 K

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Catherine Erine

Gallium nitride (GaN) power devices are employed in an increasing number of applications thanks to their excellent performance. Nevertheless, their potential for cryogenic applications, such as space, aviation, and superconducting systems, has not yet been ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Progress on the Design of the 15 T Magnet of the EDIPO Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

EDIPO 2 (the upgraded EDIPO test facility) will provide a unique testbed for superconducting cables for fusion magnets,accelerators, and other applications. Compared to the previous magnet assembly, the magnetic field is enhanced from 12.35 T to 15 T, the ...

2021

A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Anton Lukashchuk, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the superconducting circuitry and the room-temperature environment. Compared with electrical c ...

2021

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions in Correlated Electron Systems

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Matteo Cococcioni, Andrea Floris

Electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions are pervasive in condensed matter, governing phenomena such as transport, superconductivity, charge-density waves, polarons, and metal-insulator transitions. First-principles approaches enable accurate calculations of e- ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Shape Optimization of Soft Magnetic Composites using Level-set Method

Yves Perriard, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Xiaotao Ren

Soft Magnetic Composites (SMCs) possess promising electromagnetic characteristics and attract intense research and application interest in the engineering community. Fabrication of composites with customized architecture is feasible due to the recent advan ...

2021

Synthesis, structural and magnetic characterization of thin films of the chiral magnets CoZnMn and FeGe

Anna Kúkol'ová

Skyrmions are topologically protected nanometer-sized magnetic vortices that have sparked interest for future spintronics applications aiming at high-density, high-speed and low-power consuming magnetic memory devices. One type of skyrmions appears in non- ...

EPFL2021

Microscale Liquid Metal Conductors for Stretchable and Transparent Electronics

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Furfaro, Giuseppe Schiavone, Laurent Mirko Dejace, Haotian Chen

Integrated wearable electronics capable of transducing and transmitting biophysical information on complex and dynamic systems are attracting high interest across the consumer electronics, clinical, and research domains. Gallium and gallium-based liquid me ...

2021

Scanning SQUID microscopy in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Maja Deborah Bachmann

We report a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator with a base temperature at the sample stage of at least 30 mK. The microscope is rigidly mounted to the mixing chamber plate to opti ...

2021

Algebraic and Boolean Optimization Methods for AQFP Superconducting Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Eleonora Testa, Heinz Riener, Siang-Yun Lee

Adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP) circuits are a family of superconducting electronic (SCE) circuits that have recently gained growing interest due to their low-energy consumption, and may serve as alternative technology to overcome the down-scalin ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021