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most citedChemical profiles of the oxides on tantalum in state of the art superconducting circuits

53 citations · 78 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Temperature-Dependent Dielectric Function of Tantalum Nitride Formed by Atomic Layer Deposition for Tunnel Barriers in Josephson Junctions

Ekta Bhatia, Aaron Lopez Gonzalez, Yoshitha Hettige +9

We report the dielectric functions of insulating tantalum nitride (TaN) films, deposited using atomic layer deposition (ALD) on 300 mm Si/SiO2 substrates, to demonstrate their suit…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Effects of Integrated Heatsinking on Superconductivity in Tantalum Nitride Nanowires at the 300 Millimeter Scale

Ekta Bhatia, Tharanga R. Nanayakkara, Chenyu Zhou +14

We report the superconducting properties of tantalum nitride (TaN) nanowires and TaN/copper (TaN/Cu) bilayer nanowires fabricated on 300 mm silicon wafers using CMOS-compatible pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 11 cited

Revealing the Origin and Nature of the Buried Metal-Substrate Interface Layer in Ta/Sapphire Superconducting Films

Aswin kumar Anbalagan, Rebecca Cummings, Chenyu Zhou +14

Despite constituting a smaller fraction of the qubits electromagnetic mode, surfaces and interfaces can exert significant influence as sources of high-loss tangents, which brings f…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 1 cited

Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation

Ray D. Chang, Nana Shumiya, Russell A. McLellan +15

The lifetime of superconducting qubits is limited by dielectric loss, and a major source of dielectric loss is the native oxide present at the surface of the superconducting metal.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Ultrathin Magnesium-based Coating as an Efficient Oxygen Barrier for Superconducting Circuit Materials

Chenyu Zhou, Junsik Mun, Juntao Yao +15

Scaling up superconducting quantum circuits based on transmon qubits necessitates substantial enhancements in qubit coherence time. Among the materials considered for transmon qubi…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Surpassing millisecond coherence times in on-chip superconducting quantum memories by optimizing materials, processes, and circuit design

Suhas Ganjam, Yanhao Wang, Yao Lu +10

The performance of superconducting quantum circuits for quantum computing has advanced tremendously in recent decades; however, a comprehensive understanding of relaxation mechanis…

physics.app-ph2023★ 11 cited

Engineering of Niobium Surfaces Through Accelerated Neutral Atom Beam Technology For Quantum Applications

Soumen Kar, Conan Weiland, Chenyu Zhou +16

A major roadblock to scalable quantum computing is phase decoherence and energy relaxation caused by qubits interacting with defect-related two-level systems (TLS). Native oxides p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 53 cited

Chemical profiles of the oxides on tantalum in state of the art superconducting circuits

Russell A. McLellan, Aveek Dutta, Chenyu Zhou +23

Over the past decades, superconducting qubits have emerged as one of the leading hardware platforms for realizing a quantum processor. Consequently, researchers have made significa…