S-PULSE

The electronic version of the last S-PULSE newsletter has been released. It is now available in the newsletter page. It can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

The next S-Pulse (microcooling) workshop will be organized at the University of Twente on April 22nd and April 23rd. It is organized in the frame of the S-Pulse project which is an FP-7 Support Action of the EU. The workshop will be in the conference center Drienerburght, and participation is on basis of invitation.

After the first workshop in April 2008 and further discussions in 2009, we now will focus on the issues cost, standardization, size reduction and interference. Typical questions that will be addressed are:
- What determines the cost of a cooler?
- Is it possible to make a family of coolers that can be linked somehow and thus serve the needs of high-temperature (ca. 80K), medium-temperature (ca. 20K) and low-temperature superconductivity (ca. 4K)? (standardization as means to reduce cost)
- What size are we aiming for in the different applications?
- What are current developments in microcooling?
- What limits current coolers in their low-temperature efficiency and what R&D is needed to improve on that?
- Can we come up with “crazy” ideas to have higher-efficiency coolers in the low-temperature range (as one of the ways to get to smaller and probably also cheaper coolers)?
- Are there recent experiments with SE and coolers that give information on the acceptable interference levels (electro-magnetic, mechanical vibrations, temperature fluctuations)?

The workshop starts on Thursday 22nd at 11.00 and closes on Friday 23rd after lunch.

Apart from representatives from the SE community, also cooler manufacturers are invited.

For further information, please contact lt@tnw.utwente.nl

The presentations of EUROFLUX2009 conference are now available and can be downloaded by clicking on the links below. Read the rest of this entry »

Registration is now open for the Savoie workshop on experimental considerations related to superconducting electronics. The workshop will take place from May 27 to 28, 2010 at the University of Savoie in the heart of Chambéry in France (see also the website of the tourism office). Workshop will start on May 27th at 9:00 am, to end on May 28th after lunch. There is no registration fee. Lunches and dinner are paid by S-PULSE project.
The main topic deals with experimental techniques of measurements related to superconducting electronics. It includes the techniques associated to the extraction of technological parameters, the measurements of digital RSFQ circuits, the characterization of detectors and the development of interfaces. It also includes cryogenic considerations related to the measurements of superconducting devices. Read the rest of this entry »

The electronic version of the last S-PULSE newsletter has just been released. It is now available in the newsletter page. It can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

The second Savoie workshop dedicated to experimental considerations about superconducting electronics electronics will take place at the University of Savoie in Chambéry, Savoie, France. It will start onThursday, May 27 at 9 am to end after lunch on Friday, May 28.

More information and the registration form will be posted on this website soon.

The S-Pulse cooler workshop will take place at the University of Twente on April 22nd and 23rd at the University’s conference hotel “Drienerburght”. The program will be Thursday full day and will end on Friday after lunch. More information available soon.

The second Karlsruhe Detector Workshop will be held on March 2-3, 2010. It is planned to start the scientific program on Tuesday 2 at 9am. It will end on Wednesday 3rd after Lunch.
Objectives:
Review of recent research and development results in the area of fundamental principles of operation and applications of superconducting detectors for X-ray, visible, infrared and THz spectral range.
Further topics:
Readout Electronics, System Integration and Cooling Issues
Local Organising Committee:
M. Siegel (IMS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
K. Ilin (IMS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
E. Crocoll (IMS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

If there are any questions please contact E. Crocoll
To register or/and submit an abstract, visit the website of the University of Karlsruhe

After the University of Birmingham and the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (iNRiM) which are members of FLUXONICS since 2008, two new members from South Africa have joined the European FLUXONICS Society in November 2009:

• the NioCad (PTY) Ltd. SME, specialized in development of Superconducting Electronics softwares;
• Stellenbosch University which owns a research group dedicated to Superconducting Electronics

They are warmly welcome and will add substantial skills and value to FLUXONICS.

The S-PULSE International RSFQ Technology Workshop will take place on October 22-23, 2009 at the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany.

The workshop will be held at:
IPHT Jena Albert-Einstein-Str. 9
D-07745 Jena, Germany
Fax.: +49 3641 206199
http://www.ipht-jena.de

The updated program is now available.

Download the second announcement.

The S-PULSE International RSFQ Technology Workshop will take place on October 22-23, 2009 at the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany.

The objective of this workshop is to provide the knowledge of superconductor electronics circuit fabrication. Technologists from European facilities as well as from Japan and the United States will introduce the status quo of the fabrication of RSFQ circuits and will provide an outlook on future developments. The lectures will address students, circuit design engineers, young scientists and all other interested.

The workshop will be held at:
IPHT Jena Albert-Einstein-Str. 9
D-07745 Jena, Germany
Fax.: +49 3641 206199
http://www.ipht-jena.de

Registration
Deadline for registration is October 1, 2009.
Please send a registration email to spulse.tech@ipht-jena.de

Accommodation
Special rate rooms for the workshop are available at:
Best Western Hotel Jena
Rudolstädter Straße 82
07745 Jena Telefon:
Phone: +49 (0) 3641-660
Telefax: +49 (0) 3641-661010
http://www.hotel-jena.bestwestern.de

Download the first announcement.

The 6th FLUXONICS RSFQ design workshop is an activity of the European S-PULSE project and will be held at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany on July 26-29, 2009.

We invited two distinguished researchers to the workshop:
- Prof. Akira Fujimaki, Nagoya University, Japan
- Prof. Vasili Semenov, Stony Brook University, USA

The aim of the workshop is to discuss recent developments and future activities in the field of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) circuit design with particular emphasis on the translation of scientific knowledge into industrial applications.
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The scientific program of the 2009 Savoie workshop is available here.

• A post-doc on superconducting digital electronics (RSFQ logic ) is available at CEA-Grenoble in France.
  See the subject
  
  
• A PhD position about nano-Josephson junctions is also available at CEA-Grenoble: see details.
  
  
• A PhD thesis about SIS muti-junctions used for Local Oscillator in submillimter heterodyne mixers is available at the Observatory of Paris: see PhD subject.

The S-PULSE workshop “Applied Superconducting Electronics in quantum metrology” will take place from Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7, May 2009 in Braunschweig, Germany.
The workshop will start in the afternoon of May 5 after a lunch. It will end on May 7, again after lunch. Sessions will be in the afternoon of May 5 starting around 2 p.m., all day of May 6, and ante meridiem of May 7. A lab visit at PTB is planned in the afternoon of May 7.

The second Twente microcooling workshop will take place at the University of Twente during May 14-15, 2009.
The workshop will start with lunch on Thursday 14th, followed by an afternoon session, and a diner together. On Friday 15, we will have a morning session and will close the meeting after lunch.
More information will be posted on this website later.

Registration is now open up to March 6 for the Savoie workshop on experimental considerations connected to superconducting electronics. The workshop will take place from April 6 to 8, 2009 at the Headquarters of the University of Savoie in the heart of Chambéry in France (see also the website of the tourism office). There is no registration fee.
The main topic deals with experimental techniques of measurements related to superconducting electronics. It includes the techniques associated to the extraction of technological parameters, the measurements of digital RSFQ circuits or the characterization of detectors. It also includes cryogenic considerations related to the measurements of superconducting devices. Read the rest of this entry »

The second EUROFLUX Symposium will take place in the beautiful city of Avignon in France from September 20th to 23rd, 2009. To know more, go to the dedicated website at http://www.euroflux.org.

The first EUROFLUX Symposium took place in Naples from September 29th to October 1st, 2008 in Naples. The final scientific program is available at: http://www.fluxonics.org/euroflux2008.

This workshop will follow the Design workshop of Ilmenau and the Technology training workshop of Jena. During this workshop, participants will get acquainted with all aspects related to circuit tests, after the Design workshop and the Technology training workshops. A second set of Design, Technology and Experimental workshops is planned in the June 2009-April 2010 period.