Paper 13106-1
Paper 13106-1
Sensing and information processing by using superconducting nanowires (Keynote Presentation)
18 June 2024 • 9:40 AM - 10:20 AM EDT | Univ. of Waterloo, QNC Room 0101
Abstract
In this talk, I will present the latest results in superconducting single-photon detectors. Superconducting wires have remarkable sensitivity to single-photons and are a reliable and high-performance technology with significant impact on the quantum information research community. However, increasingly applications as diverse as detection of high-energy particles and searches for dark matter are being pursued. Finally, research on these nanowires has permitted their use for basic electronics circuits such as comparators, shift registers, and counters. We will review these and other topics surrounding the development of nanowire single-photon detectors.
Presenter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
Prof. Berggren is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group. He is also Director of the Nanostructures Laboratory in the Research Laboratory of Electronics and is a core faculty member in the Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL). From December of 1996 to September of 2003, Prof. Berggren served as a staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, and from 2010 to 2011, was on sabbatical at the Technical University of Delft.
His current research focuses on methods of nanofabrication, especially applied to superconductive quantum circuits, photodetectors, high-speed superconductive electronics, and energy systems. His thesis work focused on nanolithographic methods using neutral atoms.