Advances in materials science and engineering have played a central role in the
development of classical computers and will undoubtedly be critical in propelling the …

Interest in superconducting microresonators has grown dramatically over the past decade.
Resonator performance has improved substantially through the use of improved geometries …

Titanium nitride (TiN x) films are ideal for use in superconducting microresonator detectors
for the following reasons:(a) the critical temperature varies with composition (0< T c< 5 …

The energy resolution of a single photon counting microwave kinetic inductance detector
can be degraded by noise coming from the primary low temperature amplifier in the …

If driven sufficiently strongly, superconducting microresonators exhibit nonlinear behavior
including response bifurcation. This behavior can arise from a variety of physical …

Aims. Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined
as a 1–10 THz band, can potentially reach a sensitivity limited only by background radiation …

Abstract Microwave kinetic Inductance Detectors, MKIDs, combine device simplicity, intrinsic
multiplexing capability and a good sensitivity for radiation detection from the X-ray to the sub …

Next-generation experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay must be
sensitive to a Majorana neutrino mass as low as 10~ meV meV. CUORE, an array of 988 …

Large-scale arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are attractive
candidates for use in imaging instruments for next generation submillimeter-wave …

Quantum two-level systems (TLSs) are present in the materials of qubits and are considered
defects because they limit qubit coherence. For superconducting qubits, the quintessential …