ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
The emerging technology of superconducting parametric amplifiers (SPAs) can achieve quantum-limited sensitivity over a broad bandwidth by utilizing the wave-mixing mechanism in a nonlinear transmission medium. They are compact, easy to fabricate with planar circuit technology, have ultra-low heat dissipation, and can be integrated directly with other detector circuits. Their performance surpasses that of the state-of-the-art high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifiers, and they can operate from radio to THz frequencies. Therefore, they have the potential to revolutionize almost every kind of microwave, millimetre (mm), and sub-mm instrumentation, from observational astronomy to…
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