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20202026
most citedA superconducting nanowire spiking element for neural networks

52 citations · 98 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.app-ph2026★ 1 cited

Reconfigurable Superconducting Logic for On-Chip Photon Coincidence Detection

Gabriel Le Guay, Matteo Castellani, Reed Foster +5

Scaling photonic quantum-information platforms requires arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) for feedforward control, in which optical operations are…

physics.app-ph2025

Fast-Recovery Epitaxial NbN Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors with Saturated Efficiency at 1550 nm in Liquid Helium

Francesca Incalza, Matteo Castellani, Dip Joti Paul +5

Achieving both high internal efficiency and fast reset times at elevated temperatures remains challenging due to limited understanding of how film properties govern SNSPD performan…

physics.ins-det2025

Time-tagging data acquisition system for testing superconducting electronics based on an RFSoC and custom analog frontend

Reed A. Foster, Stephen Kandeh, Owen Medeiros +3

Novel electronic devices can often be operated in a plethora of ways, which makes testing circuits comprised of them difficult. Often, no single tool can simultaneously analyze the…

physics.app-ph2025

Scalable Superconducting Nanowire Memory Array with Row-Column Addressing

Owen Medeiros, Matteo Castellani, Valentin Karam +6

Developing ultra-low-energy superconducting computing and fault-tolerant quantum computing will require scalable superconducting memory. While conventional superconducting logic-ba…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Ab initio modeling of nonequilibrium dynamics in superconducting detectors and qubits

Alejandro Simon, Reed Foster, Mihir Sahoo +7

Nonequilibrium quasiparticle (QP) and phonon dynamics are central to the operation of superconducting devices. Superconducting detectors, such as the superconducting nanowire singl…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Characterizing and modeling the influence of geometry on the performance of superconducting nanowire cryotrons

Alejandro Simon, Reed Foster, Owen Medeiros +3

The scaling of superconducting nanowire-based devices to larger arrays is often limited by the cabling required to interface with each device. Cryogenic integrated circuits constru…

physics.app-ph2024★ 2 cited

A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier

Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Alessandro Buzzi +3

Superconducting thin-film electronics are attractive for their low power consumption, fast operating speeds, and ease of interface with cryogenic systems such as single-photon dete…

physics.app-ph2024★ 3 cited

Parameter extraction for a superconducting thermal switch (hTron) SPICE model

Valentin Karam, Owen Medeiros, Tareq El Dandachi +4

Efficiently simulating large circuits is crucial to the development of superconducting nanowire-based electronics. However, current simulation tools for this technology are not ada…

physics.app-ph2023

Nanocryotron ripple counter integrated with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector for megapixel arrays

Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Reed A. Foster +5

Decreasing the number of cables that bring heat into the cryostat is a critical issue for all cryoelectronic devices. Especially, arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon d…

physics.app-ph2023★ 17 cited

A Superconducting Nanowire Binary Shift Register

Reed A. Foster, Matteo Castellani, Alessandro Buzzi +3

We present a design for a superconducting nanowire binary shift register, which stores digital states in the form of circulating supercurrents in high-kinetic-inductance loops. Adj…

physics.app-ph2022★ 23 cited

A Nanocryotron Memory and Logic Family

Alessandro Buzzi, Matteo Castellani, Reed A. Foster +3

The development of superconducting electronics based on nanocryotrons has been limited so far to few-device circuits, in part due to the lack of standard and robust logic cells. He…

cs.ET2021

A Superconducting Nanowire-based Architecture for Neuromorphic Computing

Andres E. Lombo, Jesus E. Lares, Matteo Castellani +3

Neuromorphic computing is poised to further the success of software-based neural networks by utilizing improved customized hardware. However, the translation of neuromorphic algori…

q-bio.NC2020★ 52 cited

A superconducting nanowire spiking element for neural networks

Emily Toomey, Ken Segall, Matteo Castellani +3

As the limits of traditional von Neumann computing come into view, the brain's ability to communicate vast quantities of information using low-power spikes has become an increasing…