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most citedSmooth, homogeneous, high-purity Nb3Sn superconducting RF resonant cavity by seed-free electrochemical synthesis

16 citations · 46 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Synthesis and Characterization of Atomically-Sharp Superconductor-Dielectric Interface

Nathan Sitaraman, Zhaslan Baraissov, Alexis Grassl +4

Modification of superconductor-dielectric interfaces is known to strongly impact coherence times of superconducting quantum devices. This relationship is thought to arise from diff…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Active-Learning Inspired Theory-Experiment Loop Approach for Management of Material Defects: Application to Superconducting Qubits

Sarvesh Chaudhari, Cristóbal Méndez, Rushil Choudhary +11

Surface oxides are associated with two-level systems (TLSs) that degrade the performance of niobium-based superconducting quantum computing devices. To address this, we introduce a…

physics.ins-det2025

Cepstral Strain Mapping for Small Pixel-Count Detectors

Harikrishnan KP, Dasol Yoon, Yu-Tsun Shao +6

With the decreasing sizes of integrated-circuit components, the semiconductor industry is in growing need of high-throughput strain mapping techniques that offer high precision and…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Low barrier ZrO-based Josephson junctions

Jaehong Choi, Maciej Olszewski, Luojia Zhang +8

The Josephson junction is a crucial element in superconducting devices, and niobium is a promising candidate for the superconducting material due to its large energy gap relative t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Mic-hackathon 2024: Hackathon on Machine Learning for Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Kamyar Barakati +70

Microscopy is a primary source of information on materials structure and functionality at nanometer and atomic scales. The data generated is often well-structured, enriched with me…

physics.ins-det2025

Emittance Minimization for Aberration Correction II: Physics-informed Bayesian Optimization of an Electron Microscope

Desheng Ma, Steven E. Zeltmann, Chenyu Zhang +6

Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool in understanding materials at the atomic scale. However, tuning the aberration co…

physics.ins-det2024

Emittance Minimization for Aberration Correction I: Aberration correction of an electron microscope without knowing the aberration coefficients

Desheng Ma, Steven E. Zeltmann, Chenyu Zhang +6

Precise alignment of the electron beam is critical for successful application of scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) to understanding materials at atomic level. Despi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Thermodynamic route of Nb3Sn nucleation: Role of oxygen

Zeming Sun, Darrah K. Dare, Zhaslan Baraissov +3

Intermetallic Nb3Sn alloys have long been believed to form through Sn diffusion into Nb. However, our observations of significant oxygen content in Nb3Sn prompted an investigation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 12 cited

Surface oxides, carbides, and impurities on RF superconducting Nb and Nb3Sn: A comprehensive analysis

Zeming Sun, Zhaslan Baraissov, Catherine A. Dukes +5

Surface structures on radio-frequency (RF) superconductors are crucially important in determining their interaction with the RF field. Here we investigate the surface compositions,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 5 cited

ZrNb(CO) RF superconducting thin film with high critical temperature in the theoretical limit

Zeming Sun, Thomas Oseroff, Zhaslan Baraissov +11

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) resonators are critical components for particle accelerator applications, such as free-electron lasers, and for emerging technologies in quant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Smooth, homogeneous, high-purity Nb3Sn superconducting RF resonant cavity by seed-free electrochemical synthesis

Zeming Sun, Zhaslan Baraissov, Ryan D. Porter +6

Workbench-size particle accelerators, enabled by Nb3Sn-based superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities, hold the potential of driving scientific discovery by offering a widely…

physics.ins-det2022

Single-shot, coherent, pop-out 3D metrology

Deepan Balakrishnan, See Wee Chee, Zhaslan Baraissov +3

Three-dimensional (3D) imaging of thin, extended specimens at nanometer resolution is critical for applications in biology, materials science, advanced synthesis, and manufacturing…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Theory of Nb-Zr Alloy Superconductivity and First Experimental Demonstration for Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavity Applications

Nathan S. Sitaraman, Zeming Sun, Ben Francis +8

Niobium-zirconium (Nb-Zr) alloy is an old superconductor that is a promising new candidate for superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity applications. Using density-functional a…