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Welcome to SQEL Vittorio, Gaia and Mirko!

From left to right: Vittorio Buccheri, Gaia Germanese and Mirko Rocci From left to right: Vittorio Buccheri, Gaia Germanese and Mirko Rocci

We are glad to welcome Vittorio who, after a master project in our group, is back with us for this year, Gaia a new PhD student at the University of Pisa and Mirko who joined us after his stay at MIT.

Vittorio and Gaia will both work on the T-CONVERSE project, for the realization of temperature-to-phase superconducting photodetectors, while Mirko is going to spend the second year of his EuSuper Marie Curie fellowship working on the realization of europium-based superconducting magnetic RAM.

Welcome again and good work!

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Nadia Ligato awarded at “RAITH Micrograph Award 2019”

The winning micrograph: a superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor with multi tunnel junctions. The winning micrograph: a superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor with multi tunnel junctions.

A new recognition of the SQEL cutting-edge research has been given by Raith Nanofabrication to our researcher Nadia Ligato who won the third prize of the RAITH Micrograph Award 2019!

The micrograph winning the award pictures a superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor (SQUIPT), a multi-tunnel junctions device fabricated using electron beam lithography technique and shadow-angle evaporation.

Many compliments to Nadia and stay tuned to not miss new updates about her work!

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SQEL at the Nanowire Week 2019

Elia Strambini during his talk at Nanowire Week 2019 Elia Strambini during his talk at Nanowire Week 2019

The Nanowire Week is one of the biggest conferences on nanowires merging two well-established and highly successful annual workshops: NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop. The 2019 edition has been held in Pisa from September 23 to 27 organized by NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and CNR Istituto Nanoscienze.

Our researcher Elia Strambini presented some unpublished results of our group in a a talk titled “Magnetically-driven anomalous phase shift in InAs nanowire Josephson Junctions” about the revealing of an anomalous phase shift in a Al/InAs(NW)/Al Josephson junction.

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The project T-CONVERSE “Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors” has been funded!

The ATTRACT project T-CONVERSE "Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors" has been funded! ATTRACT is a pioneering initiative bringing together Europe’s research & industrial communities to lead the next generation of detection & imaging technologies.

The project T-CONVERSE “Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors”, a collaboration between INFN Sezione di Pisa (F. Paolucci), CNR-Nano (F. Giazotto) and SeeQC-Eu (O. Mukhanov), is one of the projects recommended for funding in the call ATTRACT for the development of breakthrough sensing and imaging technology.

More information on: https://attract-eu.com/selected-projects/temperature-to-phase-conversion-thz-radiation-sensors-t-converse/

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SQEL students at NanoQI 2019

SQEL students at NanoQI'19 SQEL students at NanoQI’19

Advances in nanofabrication and the understanding and control of the quantum properties of matter are laying the groundwork for revolutionary new technologies and information processing capabilities. 

Four PhD students (L. Bours, A. Iorio, C. Puglia and F. Vischi) of the SQEL group were admitted to attend the 2019 Nanotechnology meets Quantum Information (NanoQI) summer school in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain).  

Eight leading experts have been reviewed the experimental and theoretical state-of-the-art for some of the most promising implementations such as semiconductor quantum dots, superconducting circuits, topological insulators and much more.

During the school, our students showcased the research carried out at SQEL in three posters: “Field-effect metallic superconducting electronics” (by C. Puglia), “Field-effect controllable metallic Josephson interferometer” (by F. Vischi) and “Revealing the Spin-Orbit Interaction in InAs nanowires” (by A. Iorio).

  • Group picture at NanoQI’19
  • A. Iorio, F. Vischi and C. Puglia while presenting their posters at NanoQI’19