Superconducting microresonators: Physics and applications

J Zmuidzinas - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2012 - annualreviews.org
Interest in superconducting microresonators has grown dramatically over the past decade.
Resonator performance has improved substantially through the use of improved geometries …

Broadband solenoidal haloscope for terahertz axion detection

J Liu, K Dona, G Hoshino, S Knirck, N Kurinsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We introduce the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) conceptual
design and science program. This haloscope plans to search for bosonic dark matter across …

Nanobolometers for THz photon detection

BS Karasik, AV Sergeev… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the state of rapidly emerging terahertz hot-electron nanobolometers
(nano-HEB), which are currently among of the most sensitive radiation power detectors at …

A wideband, low-noise superconducting amplifier with high dynamic range

B Ho Eom, PK Day, HG LeDuc, J Zmuidzinas - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
An ideal amplifier has very low noise, operates over a broad frequency range, and has large
dynamic range. Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain all of these characteristics …

Materials in superconducting quantum bits

WD Oliver, PB Welander - MRS bulletin, 2013 - cambridge.org
Superconducting qubits are electronic circuits comprising lithographically defined
Josephson tunnel junctions, inductors, capacitors, and interconnects. When cooled to …

Loss mechanisms and quasiparticle dynamics in superconducting microwave resonators made of thin-film granular aluminum

L Grünhaupt, N Maleeva, ST Skacel, M Calvo… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Superconducting high kinetic inductance elements constitute a valuable resource for
quantum circuit design and millimeter-wave detection. Granular aluminum (grAl) in the …

Reaching 10 ms single photon lifetimes for superconducting aluminum cavities

M Reagor, H Paik, G Catelani, L Sun, C Axline… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Three-dimensional microwave cavities have recently been combined with superconducting
qubits in the circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture. These cavities should have less …

[HTML][HTML] Low-noise kinetic inductance traveling-wave amplifier using three-wave mixing

MR Vissers, RP Erickson, HS Ku, L Vale, X Wu… - Applied physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We have fabricated a wide-bandwidth, high dynamic range, low-noise cryogenic amplifier
based on a superconducting kinetic inductance traveling-wave device. The device was …

ARCONS: A 2024 pixel optical through near-IR cryogenic imaging spectrophotometer

BA Mazin, SR Meeker, MJ Strader… - Publications of the …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the design, construction, and commissioning results of ARCONS, the Array
Camera for Optical to Near-IR Spectrophotometry. ARCONS is the first ground-based …

Low loss superconducting titanium nitride coplanar waveguide resonators

MR Vissers, J Gao, DS Wisbey, DA Hite… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Thin films of TiN were sputter-deposited onto Si and sapphire wafers with and without SiN
buffer layers. The films were fabricated into rf coplanar waveguide resonators, and internal …