Broadband Quantum-Limited Parametric Amplifier for Astronomy and Quantum Information Technology

Project Information

SPA4AstroQIT

Grant agreement ID: 803862

DOI

10.3030/803862

Project closed

EC signature date 16 August 2018

Start date 1 February 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 991 678,00

EU contribution

€ 1 991 678,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Conference proceedings (15)

Design of high compression point Josephson junction travelling wave parametric amplifier for readout of millimetre/sub-millimetre astronomical receivers

Author(s): Javier Navarro Montilla, Boon-Kok Tan
Published in: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2022, Page(s) 182
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2628992

Preliminary characterisation of titanium nitride thin film at 300 mK for the development of kinetic inductance travelling wave parametric amplifiers

Author(s): Joseph C. Longden, Faouzi M. Boussaha, Christine Chaumont, Kitti Ratter, Boon-Kok Tan
Published in: Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science II, 2022, Page(s) 38
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2600853

Preliminary Design of a W-band DC-Biased Three-Wave Mixing Kinetic Inductance Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifier

Author(s): Navarro Montilla, J., N. Klimovich, R. Stephenson, F. Faramarzi, P. Day, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Sixteenth Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics

A Dual-Band Quantum Superconducting Amplifiers for Axion-Like Dark Matter Particle Search Experiments

Author(s): Klimovich, N., J. Navarro Montilla, R. Stephenson, F. Faramarzi, P. Day, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: APS March Meeting

Design and fabrication of millimeter-wave Josephson Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers

Author(s): Navarro Montilla, J., E. F. C. Driessen, A. Barbier, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: APS March Meeting

Investigating Pin-Holes Issue in Josephson Junction Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers Requiring Large Area of Dielectric Layer

Author(s): Navarro Montilla, J., N. Klimovich, E. F. C. Driessen, A. Barbier, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: ISSTT

An Initial Concept of A Resonance Phase Matched Junction-Loaded Travelling Wave Parametric Tripler

Author(s): Boon Kok Tan
Published in: roc. 33rd Int. Sym. Space THz Technol. (ISSTT), 2024
Publisher: ISSTT

Design of a uniplanar resonance phase-matched Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier

Author(s): Boon-Kok Tan, Ghassan Yassin
Published in: 2017 10th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT), 2017, Page(s) 1-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ucmmt.2017.8068511

Exploring the Limits of the Tunnel Junction Fabrication Technique for Josephson Junctions TWPA and the Preliminary Characterisation Results

Author(s): Navarro Montilla, J., E. F. C. Driessen, A. Barbier, F. Boussaha, C. Chaumont, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2022
Publisher: ISSTT

A compact kinetic inductance travelling wave parametric amplifier with continuous periodic loading structure

Author(s): Joseph C. Longden, Christine Chaumont, Faouzi Boussaha, Boon-Kok Tan
Published in: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, 2022, Page(s) 178
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2627037

Design Considerations for a W-band Josephson Junction Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifier

Author(s): Navarro Montilla, J., E. F. C. Driessen, A. Barbier, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: ISSTT

Measuring the Nonlinearity of Titanium Nitride Film for Applications as Kinetic Inductance Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers

Author(s): Longden, J. C., F. Boussaha, C. Chaumont, N. Klimovich, and B.-. K. Tan
Published in: 2022
Publisher: ISSTT

Broadband Tuneable Travelling Wave Parametric Multiplier based on High-gap Superconducting Thin Film

Author(s): Boon-Kok Tan , Nikita Klimovich, and Peter K. Day
Published in: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII. SPIE, 2024
Publisher: SPIE

A Dispersion-Engineered Josephson Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifier with Periodic Impedance Perturbation

Author(s): Kitti Ratter, Boon Kok Tan
Published in: Proceeding of the International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Issue 31st, annual, 2020
Publisher: International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology

Optimising the design of a broadband Josephson junction TWPA for axion dark matter search experiments

Author(s): Javier Navarro Montilla, Boon-Kok Tan
Published in: Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science II, 2022, Page(s) 40
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2601382

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Balanced travelling-wave parametric amplifiers for practical applications

Author(s): J C Longden, J Navarro Montilla, B-K Tan
Published in: Physica Scripta, Issue 99, 2024, Page(s) 065046, ISSN 0031-8949
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ad492a

Searching for wave-like dark matter with QSHS

Author(s): Ian Bailey, Bhaswati Chakraborty, Gemma Chapman, Edward J. Daw, John Gallop, Gianluca Gregori, Edward Hardy, Ling Hao, Edward Laird, Peter Leek, John March-Russell, Phil Meeson, Seaárbhan Ó Peatáin, Yuri Pashkin, Mitchell G. Perry, Michele Piscitelli, Edward Romans, Subir Sarkar, Paul J. Smith, Ningqiang Song, Mahesh Soni, Boon K. Tan, Stephen West, Stafford Withington
Published in: SciPost Physics Proceedings, 2023, ISSN 2666-4003
Publisher: SciPost Physics Proceedings
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphysproc.12.040

Modeling and Testing Superconducting Artificial CPW Lines Suitable for Parametric Amplification

Author(s): Mena, F., D. Valenzuela, C. Espinoza, F. Pizarro, B.-K. Tan, D. Thoen, J. Baselmans, and R. Finger
Published in: Transaction on Applied Superconductivity, 2024, ISSN 1051-8223
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Non-degenerate-pump four-wave mixing kinetic inductance travelling-wave parametric amplifiers

Author(s): J C Longden, B-K Tan
Published in: Engineering Research Express, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 015068, ISSN 2631-8695
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/2631-8695/ad213c

Engineering the thin film characteristics for optimal performance of superconducting kinetic inductance amplifiers using a rigorous modelling technique

Author(s): Boon-Kok Tan, Faouzi Boussaha, Christine Chaumont, Joseph Longden, Javier Navarro Montilla
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 88, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14860.1

Operation of kinetic-inductance travelling wave parametric amplifiers at millimetre wavelengths

Author(s): B-K Tan, N Klimovich, R Stephenson, F Faramarzi, P Day
Published in: Superconductor Science and Technology, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 035006, ISSN 0953-2048
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ad20fd

Investigating the effects of sum-frequency conversions and surface impedance uniformity in traveling wave superconducting parametric amplifiers

Author(s): Nikita Klimovich, Samuel Wood, Peter K. Day, Boon-Kok Tan
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 135, 2024, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0192030

Automated characterisation and operational insights of superconducting travelling wave parametric amplifiers: unveiling novel behaviours and enhancing tunability

Author(s): S. Wood, N. Klimovich, B.-K. Tan
Published in: Journal of Instrumentation, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) P08024, ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/08/p08024