Publications related to Quick and Clean: Stencil Lithography for Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

Thouless pumping in Josephson junction arrays

Recent advancements in fabrication techniques have enabled unprecedented clean interfaces and gate tunability in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Inspired by these developments, we propose protocols to realize Thouless quantum pumping in elec ...

Scipost Foundation2024

Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors

Marco Scigliuzzo

The reproducibility of qubit parameters is a challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. Signal cross talk imposes constraints on the frequency separation between neighboring qubits. The frequency uncertainty of transmon qubits arising fro ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Silicon spin qubits from laboratory to industry

Edoardo Charbon, Louis Hutin

Quantum computation (QC) is one of the most challenging quantum technologies that promise to revolutionize data computation in the long-term by outperforming the classical supercomputers in specific applications. Errors will hamper this quantum revolution ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Printed degradable piezoelectric microsystems: From ink formulation to device fabrication and characterization

Morgan Mc Kay Monroe

As the world moves further and further into the semiconductor era, the amount of waste generated from electronics ("e-waste") is increasing rapidly and unsustainably. Of particular note, alternatives to lead-based piezoelectric materials must be establishe ...

EPFL2023

Additive and digital manufacturing of transient sensors and bioelectronics

Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics have emerged as a promising class of devices, capable of breaking down without harmful side effects to their environment. They have tremendous potential as bioresorbable electronics for temporary applications in the human body, and as ...

EPFL2023

Microwave-to-Optical Transduction with Gallium Phosphide Electro-Optomechanical Devices

Simon Benjamin Klaus Hönl

Quantum computing is one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st century. Small-scale systems today promise to surpass classical computers in the coming years and to enable the solution of classically intractable computational tasks in the fields of ...

EPFL2021

Scaling silicon-based quantum computing using CMOS technology

Edoardo Charbon

As quantum processors grow in complexity, attention is moving to the scaling prospects of the entire quantum computing system, including the classical support hardware. Recent results in high-fidelity control of individual spins in silicon, combined with d ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

All-Printed Electrocorticography Array for In Vivo Neural Recordings

Fabian Michael Lütolf, Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Laura Ferlauto, Nenad Marjanovic

Bioelectronic and neuroprosthetic interfaces rely on implanted microelectrode arrays (MEAs) to interact with the human body. Printing techniques, such as inkjet and screen printing, are attractive methods for the manufacturing of MEAs because they allow fl ...

2020

Fully 3D Printed Mechanical Pressure Sensors: A Comparison of Sensing Mechanisms

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Julien Gaëtan Berger, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen

Recent advances in 3D printing techniques are allowing for new ways to manufacture sensors with materials and geometries previously not exploited. In this work we present a fabrication approach for fully 3D printed soft mechanical pressure sensors, as well ...

IEEE2020

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy with Superconducting Junctions : From Single Channel Transport to Local Pair Breaking Potentials

Jacob Senkpiel

This thesis contains two major topics, the restriction of tunneling to only a few channels in the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the interaction of local magnetic impurities with superconductivity. At a temperature of 15mK, the quantum back-action ...

EPFL2018

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Mastering the statistical properties of microcavity polaritons

Albert Adiyatullin

Microcavity polaritons are hybrid quasiparticles emerging from the strong coupling between quantum well excitons and light in the resonator. Their unique half-light half-matter nature brings in specific properties like low effective mass, nonlinearity due ...

EPFL2017

Unified rule based correction for corners in proximity lithography mask using high resolution features

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Krishnaparvathy Puthankovilakam

Printing industry and printing techniques are increasing its market value by new methodologies. The resolution and accuracy of the pattern transfer is always a challenge for the industry, especially for the proximity printing industries which use mask alig ...

Elsevier2017

Critical Josephson current in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Maximilian Assig, Matthias Alexander Eltschka

The current-voltage characteristics of a voltage-biased Josephson junction in the low conductance regime of an ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is dominated by sequential charge tunneling. Using P(E) theory we show that the Josephs ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

A nanoscale gigahertz source realized with Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Maximilian Assig, Matthias Alexander Eltschka

Using the AC Josephson effect in the superconductor-vacuum-superconductor tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we demonstrate the generation of GHz radiation. With the macroscopic STM tip acting as a lambda/4-monopole antenna, we first ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Josephson Tunneling at the Atomic Scale : The Josephson Effect as a Local Probe

Berthold Jäck

The aim of this thesis is to characterize the properties of a Josephson junction in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) at millikelvin temperatures and to implement Josephson STM (JSTM) as a versatile probe at the atomic scale. To this end we investigate ...

EPFL2015

Resistless nanofabrication by stencil lithography: A review

Jürgen Brugger, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

We present a review on stencil lithography and focus on the particular interest and challenges when applying it to the scalable fabrication of nm-size devices. We first describe the basic technique with its main advantages and challenges. Then we review th ...

Elsevier2015

Tunnel Field Effect Transistors : from Steep-Slope Electronic Switches to Energy Efficient Logic Applications

Arnab Biswas

The aim of this work has been the investigation of homo-junction Tunnel Field Effect Transistors starting from a compact modelling perspective to its possible applications. Firstly a TCAD based simulation study is done to explain the main device characteri ...

EPFL2015

Scanning gate microscopy measurements on a superconducting single-electron transistor

Nico de Rooij, Kaspar Suter

We present measurements on a superconducting single-electron transistor (SET) in which the metallic tip of a low-temperature scanning force microscope is used as a movable gate. We characterize the SET through charge stability diagram measurements and comp ...

2009

Etching of sub-micrometer structures through Stencil

Jürgen Brugger, Marc Antonius Friedrich van den Boogaart, Kristopher Pataky, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Katrin Sidler Arnet, Andreea Veronica Savu, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Resistless processes to realize the pattern transfer of your designs into the substrate present some advantages, as the reduction in fabrication steps. Stencil Lithography (SL) is one of the most used resistless processes and, up to now, it has mainly been ...

2008