research overview My research focuses on the identification and development of low-loss materials systems for superconducting quantum computing, as well as accurate and reproducible characterization of superconducting quantum devices.
selected publications conference proceeding Measurement Techniques for Superconducting Microwave Resonators Towards Quantum Device Applications. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium digest. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium. 230-232. 2022 journal article Formation and Microwave Losses of Hydrides in Superconducting Niobium Thin Films Resulting from Fluoride Chemical Processing. Advanced Functional Materials. 2024 Grain size in low loss superconducting Ta thin films on c axis sapphire. Journal of Applied Physics. 2023 Disentangling the sources of ionizing radiation in superconducting qubits. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2023 Towards merged-element transmons using silicon fins: The FinMET. Applied Physics Letters. 2022 Stability, metallicity, and magnetism in niobium silicide nanofilms. Physical Review Materials. 2022 Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program. IEEE Transactions on Education. 220-242. 2022 Reproducible coherence characterization of superconducting quantum devices. Applied Physics Letters. 2021 Cryogenic single-port calibration for superconducting microwave resonator measurements. Quantum Science and Technology. 2021 Overlap junctions for superconducting quantum electronics and amplifiers. Applied Physics Letters. 2021 Cryogenic microwave loss in epitaxial Al/GaAs/Al trilayers for superconducting circuits. Journal of Applied Physics. 2021 Merged-Element Transmon. Physical Review Applied. 2020 Epitaxial Al/GaAs/Al tri-layers fabricated using a novel wafer-bonding technique. Journal of Applied Physics. 2020 Materials loss measurements using superconducting microwave resonators. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2020 Dielectric loss extraction for superconducting microwave resonators. Applied Physics Letters. 2020 Mitigating leakage errors due to cavity modes in a superconducting quantum computer. Quantum Science and Technology. 2018 Thin film metrology and microwave loss characterization of indium and aluminum/indium superconducting planar resonators. Journal of Applied Physics. 2018 Enhanced superconducting transition temperature in electroplated rhenium. Applied Physics Letters. 2018