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A Superconducting-Nanowire Three-Terminal Electrothermal Device by McCaughan, Adam N, Berggren, Karl K

“…Superconducting electronics based on Josephson junctions are used to sense and process electronic signals with minimal loss; however, they are ultrasensitive…”
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Universal scaling of the critical temperature for thin films near the superconducting-to-insulating transition by Ivry, Yachin, Kim, Chung-Soo, Dane, Andrew E., De Fazio, Domenico, McCaughan, Adam N., Sunter, Kristen A., Zhao, Qingyuan, Berggren, Karl K.

“…Thin superconducting films form a unique platform for geometrically confined, strongly interacting electrons. They allow an inherent competition between…”
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Machine learning-powered compact modeling of stochastic electronic devices using mixture density networks by Hutchins, Jack, Alam, Shamiul, Rampini, Dana S., Oripov, Bakhrom G., McCaughan, Adam N., Aziz, Ahmedullah

“…The relentless pursuit of miniaturization and performance enhancement in electronic devices has led to a fundamental challenge in the field of circuit design…”
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Photonic online learning: a perspective by Buckley, Sonia Mary, Tait, Alexander N., McCaughan, Adam N., Shastri, Bhavin J.

“…Emerging neuromorphic hardware promises to solve certain problems faster and with higher energy efficiency than traditional computing by using physical…”
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Layer-Skipping Connections Improve the Effectiveness of Equilibrium Propagation on Layered Networks by Gammell, Jimmy, Buckley, Sonia, Nam, Sae Woo, McCaughan, Adam N

“…Equilibrium propagation is a learning framework that marks a step forward in the search for a biologically-plausible implementation of deep learning, and could…”
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Single-photon imager based on a superconducting nanowire delay line by Zhao, Qing-Yuan, Zhu, Di, Calandri, Niccolò, Dane, Andrew E., McCaughan, Adam N., Bellei, Francesco, Wang, Hao-Zhu, Santavicca, Daniel F., Berggren, Karl K.

“…Detecting spatial and temporal information of individual photons is critical to applications in spectroscopy, communication, biological imaging, astronomical…”
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Cryogenic reconfigurable logic with superconducting heater cryotron: Enhancing area efficiency and enabling camouflaged processors by Alam, Shamiul, Rampini, Dana S., Oripov, Bakhrom G., McCaughan, Adam N., Aziz, Ahmedullah

“…Superconducting electronics are among the most promising alternatives to conventional CMOS technology, thanks to the ultra-fast speed and ultra-high energy…”
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All-silicon light-emitting diodes waveguide-integrated with superconducting single-photon detectors by Buckley, Sonia, Chiles, Jeffrey, McCaughan, Adam N., Moody, Galan, Silverman, Kevin L., Stevens, Martin J., Mirin, Richard P., Nam, Sae Woo, Shainline, Jeffrey M.

“…We demonstrate cryogenic, electrically injected, waveguide-coupled Si light-emitting diodes (LEDs) operating at 1.22 μm. The active region of the LED consists…”
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All optical operation of a superconducting photonic interface by Thiele, Frederik, Hummel, Thomas, McCaughan, Adam N., Brockmeier, Julian, Protte, Maximilian, Quiring, Victor, Lengeling, Sebastian, Eigner, Christof, Silberhorn, Christine, Bartley, Tim J.

“…Quantum photonic processing via electro-optic components typically requires electronic links across different operation environments, especially when…”
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Bias sputtered NbN and superconducting nanowire devices by Dane, Andrew E., McCaughan, Adam N., Zhu, Di, Zhao, Qingyuan, Kim, Chung-Soo, Calandri, Niccolo, Agarwal, Akshay, Bellei, Francesco, Berggren, Karl K.

“…Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) promise to combine near-unity quantum efficiency with >100 megacounts per second rates, picosecond…”
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Reconfigurable Superconducting Logic Using Multi-Gate Switching of a Nano-Cryotron by Alam, Shamiul, McCaughan, Adam N., Aziz, Ahmedullah

“…Superconducting (SC) electronics (SCE) is one of the major requirements to develop a large-scale practical quantum computing system. (Figs. 1(a)) [1]…”
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Free-space-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for infrared optical communications by Bellei, Francesco, Cartwright, Alyssa P, McCaughan, Adam N, Dane, Andrew E, Najafi, Faraz, Zhao, Qingyuan, Berggren, Karl K

“…This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% ± 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire…”
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Using Geometry To Sense Current by McCaughan, Adam N, Abebe, Nathnael S, Zhao, Qing-Yuan, Berggren, Karl K

“…We describe a superconducting three-terminal device that uses a simple geometric effect known as current crowding to sense the flow of current and actuate a…”
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nanoSQUID operation using kinetic rather than magnetic induction by McCaughan, Adam N., Zhao, Qingyuan, Berggren, Karl K.

“…We report on a method of nanoSQUID modulation which uses kinetic inductance rather than magnetic inductance to manip-ulate the internal fluxoid state. We…”
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Fabrication Process Yielding Saturated Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors With 24-ps Jitter by Najafi, Faraz, Dane, Andrew, Bellei, Francesco, Qingyuan Zhao, Sunter, Kristen A., McCaughan, Adam N., Berggren, Karl K.

“…We present an optimized fabrication process for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors that allowed us to obtain a yield of ~70% for detectors based…”
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Single-photon imager based on a superconducting nanowire delay line by Zhao, Qing-Yuan, Zhu, Di, Calandri, Niccolò, Dane, Andrew E., McCaughan, Adam N., Bellei, Francesco, Wang, Hao-Zhu, Santavicca, Daniel F., Berggren, Karl K.

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Corrigendum: nanoSQUID operation using kinetic rather than magnetic induction by McCaughan, Adam N, Zhao, Qingyuan, Berggren, Karl K

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Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture by Zhao, Qingyuan, McCaughan, Adam N, Dane, Andrew E, Najafi, Faraz, Bellei, Francesco, De Fazio, Domenico, Sunter, Kristen A, Ivry, Yachin, Berggren, Karl K

“…Superconducting nanowire avalanche single-photon detectors (SNAPs) with n parallel nanowires are advantageous over single-nanowire detectors because their…”
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Multiplexed gradient descent: Fast online training of modern datasets on hardware neural networks without backpropagation by McCaughan, Adam N., Oripov, Bakhrom G., Ganesh, Natesh, Nam, Sae Woo, Dienstfrey, Andrew, Buckley, Sonia M.

“…We present multiplexed gradient descent (MGD), a gradient descent framework designed to easily train analog or digital neural networks in hardware. MGD…”
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Large-scale nanowire camera with a single-photon sensitivity

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