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Karl K. Berggren

Karl K. Berggren

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
74
Citations
20016
World Ranking
719
National Ranking
319

Materials Science

D-Index
75
Citations
20862
World Ranking
3446
National Ranking
957

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing in the sub-10 nm regime
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Karl K. Berggren is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Physics and Astronomy, with 162 publications, and Engineering, with 128 publications. Within these fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Condensed Matter Physics; and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research interests cover a variety of topics, with significant contributions in Photonic and Optical Devices, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Superconducting and THz Device Technology, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, and Mechanical and Optical Resonators.

Berggren has contributed to research published in several notable venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review Applied, and Nano Letters.

Recent papers featuring their work include:

  • Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Roadmap on emerging hardware and technology for machine learning, 2020, Nanotechnology
  • New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Broadband Solenoidal Haloscope for Terahertz Axion Detection, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 μm wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors, 2021, APL Photonics

Frequent collaborators in Berggren's research include Marco Colangelo, Phillip D. Keathley, Owen Medeiros, Boris Korzh, and Di Zhu, each contributing to multiple co-authored works.

The scientist has been recognized by peer organizations with distinctions including the IEEE Fellow award in 2016 for contributions in nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing in the sub-10 nm regime, and the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Graphoepitaxy of self-assembled block copolymers on two-dimensional periodic patterned templates.

    Ion Bita;Joel K. W. Yang;Yeon Sik Jung;Caroline A. Ross

  • Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    Boris Korzh;Qing-Yuan Zhao;Jason P. Allmaras;Simone Frasca

  • Using light as a lens for submicron, neutral-atom lithography.

    G Timp;RE Behringer;DM Tennant;JE Cunningham

  • Kinetic-inductance-limited reset time of superconducting nanowire photon counters

    Andrew J. Kerman;Eric A. Dauler;William E. Keicher;Joel K. W. Yang

  • Resolution Limits of Electron-Beam Lithography toward the Atomic Scale

    Vitor R. Manfrinato;Lihua Zhang;Dong Su;Huigao Duan

  • Mach-Zehnder Interferometry in a Strongly Driven Superconducting Qubit

    William D. Oliver;Yang Yu;Janice C. Lee;Karl K. Berggren

  • Nanowire single-photon detector with an integrated optical cavity and anti-reflection coating

    Kristine M. Rosfjord;Joel K. W. Yang;Eric A. Dauler;Andrew J. Kerman

  • MoS2 Field-Effect Transistor with Sub-10 nm Channel Length

    Amirhasan Nourbakhsh;Ahmad Zubair;Redwan N. Sajjad;K G Amir Tavakkoli

  • Localization of Metastable Atom Beams with Optical Standing Waves: Nanolithography at the Heisenberg Limit

    K. S. Johnson;J. H. Thywissen;N. H. Dekker;K. K. Berggren

  • Microcontact printing on surfaces and derivative articles

    George M. Whitesides;Younan Xia;James L. Wilbur;Rebecca J. Jackman

  • Development of Quantum InterConnects for Next-Generation Information Technologies

    David Awschalom;Karl K. Berggren;Hannes Bernien;Sunil Bhave

  • On-chip detection of non-classical light by scalable integration of single-photon detectors

    Faraz Najafi;Jacob Mower;Nicholas Christopher Harris;Francesco Bellei

  • Microlithography By Using Neutral Metastable Atoms and Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Karl K. Berggren;Andreas Bard;James L. Wilbur;John D. Gillaspy

  • Methods of etching articles via microcontact printing

    George M. Whitesides;Younan Xia;James L. Wilbur;Rebecca J. Jackman

  • Geometry-dependent critical currents in superconducting nanocircuits

    John R. Clem;Karl K. Berggren

  • Templating three-dimensional self-assembled structures in bilayer block copolymer films.

    K. W. Gotrik;A. F. Hannon;A. Alexander-Katz

  • Complex self-assembled patterns using sparse commensurate templates with locally varying motifs

    Joel K. W. Yang;Joel K. W. Yang;Yeon Sik Jung;Yeon Sik Jung;Jae-Byum Chang;R. A. Mickiewicz

  • Using high-contrast salty development of hydrogen silsesquioxane for sub-10‐nm half-pitch lithography

    Joel K. W. Yang;Karl K. Berggren

  • A Path to Ultranarrow Patterns Using Self-Assembled Lithography

    Yeon Sik Jung;Jae-Byum Chang;Eric Verploegen;Karl K. Berggren

  • Modeling the Electrical and Thermal Response of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

    J.K.W. Yang;A.J. Kerman;E.A. Dauler;V. Anant

  • Demonstrating sub-3 ps temporal resolution in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    B. A. Korzh;Q-Y. Zhao;S. Frasca;J. P. Allmaras

  • Self-Heating Hotspots in Superconducting Nanowires Cooled by Phonon Black-Body Radiation

    Andrew Dane;Jason Allmaras;Di Zhu;Murat Onen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel K. W. Yang
Joel K. W. Yang Singapore University of Technology and Design
Francesco Marsili
Francesco Marsili Facebook (United States)
Franz X. Kärtner
Franz X. Kärtner Universität Hamburg
Huigao Duan
Huigao Duan Hunan University
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University

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