Conveners
M3OrF - Focused Session: Cryogenic Microelectronics & Materials II
- Deepnarayan Gupta (HYPRES)
- Charles Rong (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)
Device fabrication is a key challenge in developing more complex superconducting detectors and cryogenic electronics. In order to explore new detector and circuit ideas, a high degree of flexibility in the fabrication process can permit new devices and design opportunities. However, this flexibility must be balanced by maintaining process stability in order to achieve high yield and develop...
Superconducting Stripline Detectors (SSLD), which are recently emerging type of detectors, can operate in kinetic inductance detector (KID) mode or transition edge sensor (TES) mode depending on the working conditions. As known, one of the fundamental bottlenecks in the superconducting detector based systems is the integration level which is basically the number of pixels in a detector matrix....
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPDs) with the system detection efficiencies (SDEs) over 80%, which are implemented in compact Gifford-McMahon (GM) cryocooler, are realized and used in a wide range of areas, such as quantum information, quantum optics, optical space communication, fluorescence microscope, and so on. However, in many applications, not only high SDE but also...
Superconductor mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) offer a compelling solution to the needs of cryogenic detectors. Digitizing detector outputs at low temperature, close to the detectors, ensures naturally noise-immune digital transport to room temperature. This is especially important as the number of detectors increase since analog signal transport is susceptible to crosstalk and noise...
Superconducting electronics and spectral-spatial holography have the potential to revolutionize digital communications, but must operate at cryogenic temperatures, near 4 K. Liquid helium is undesirable for military missions due to logistics and scarcity, and commercial low temperature cryocoolers are unable to meet size, weight, power and environmental requirements for many missions. To...
