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52
Citations
7889
World Ranking
2572
National Ranking
978

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement “For creating and disseminating quantum-based superconducting voltage standards that form the basis for worldwide precision voltage measurements.”
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to quantum-based Josephson junction array waveform synthesizer
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For inventing and developing the first Josephson junction array arbitrary waveform synthesizer and using it as a practical quantumbased ac voltage standard

Overview

Samuel P. Benz is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

Their main topics of work include advanced electrical measurement techniques, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, quantum and electron transport phenomena, quantum information and cryptography, scientific measurement and uncertainty evaluation, optical network technologies, and magneto-optical properties and applications.

Frequent collaborators of Samuel P. Benz include Paul D. Dresselhaus, P. F. Hopkins, Anna E. Fox, Nathan E. Flowers-Jacobs, and D. Olaya.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Applied Physics Letters, Metrologia, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

Among selected recent publications are:

  • Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits in a Multichip Module, 2023, PRX Quantum
  • Digital Control of a Superconducting Qubit Using a Josephson Pulse Generator at 3 K, 2022, PRX Quantum
  • Dual Josephson impedance bridge: towards a universal bridge for impedance metrology, 2020, Metrologia
  • Josephson Microwave Sources Applied to Quantum Information Systems, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
  • Microwave Modeling and Characterization of Superconductive Circuits for Quantum Voltage Standard Applications at 4 K, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Samuel P. Benz has been recognized with several awards, including the IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement in 2016 for creating and disseminating quantum-based superconducting voltage standards that support worldwide precision voltage measurements.

They were named an IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to quantum-based Josephson junction array waveform synthesizers.

In 2008, they were designated a Fellow of the American Physical Society for inventing and developing the first Josephson junction array arbitrary waveform synthesizer and applying it as a practical quantum-based AC voltage standard.

Best Publications

  • A pulse‐driven programmable Josephson voltage standard

    S. P. Benz;C. A. Hamilton

  • Hybrid superconducting-magnetic memory device using competing order parameters.

    Burm Baek;William H. Rippard;Samuel P. Benz;Stephen E. Russek

  • Ultralow power artificial synapses using nanotextured magnetic Josephson junctions.

    Michael L. Schneider;Christine A. Donnelly;Stephen E. Russek;Burm Baek

  • Coherent emission from two‐dimensional Josephson junction arrays

    Samuel P. Benz;Charles J. Burroughs

  • Superconductor-Normal-Superconductor Junctions for Programmable Voltage Standards

    Samuel P. Benz

  • Stable 1 volt programmable voltage standard

    S. P. Benz;C. A. Hamilton;C. J. Burroughs;T. E. Harvey

  • Application of the Josephson effect in electrical metrology

    B. Jeanneret;S. P. Benz

  • AC coupling technique for Josephson waveform synthesis

    S.P. Benz;C.J. Burroughs;P.D. Dresselhaus

  • 1 V and 10 V SNS Programmable Voltage Standards for 70 GHz

    F. Mueller;R. Behr;T. Weimann;L. Palafox

  • Precision Differential Sampling Measurements of Low-Frequency Synthesized Sine Waves With an AC Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

    A. Rufenacht;C.J. Burroughs;S.P. Benz;P.D. Dresselhaus

  • Application of the Josephson effect to voltage metrology

    S.P. Benz;C.A. Hamilton

  • 10V programmable Josephson voltage standard circuits using NbN∕TiNx∕NbN∕TiNx∕NbN double-junction stacks

    Hirotake Yamamori;Mayumi Ishizaki;A. Shoji;Paul D. Dresselhaus

  • NIST 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard System

    C J Burroughs;P D Dresselhaus;A Rufenacht;D Olaya

  • Pulse-driven Josephson digital/analog converter [voltage standard]

    S.P. Benz;C.A. Hamilton;C.J. Burroughs;T.E. Harvey

  • An electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant

    Samuel P Benz;Alessio Pollarolo;Alessio Pollarolo;Jifeng Qu;Horst Rogalla

  • Systematic error analysis of stepwise approximated AC waveforms generated by a Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

    C.J. Burroughs;A. Rufenacht;S.P. Benz;P.D. Dresselhaus

  • Error and Transient Analysis of Stepwise-Approximated Sine Waves Generated by Programmable Josephson Voltage Standards

    C.J. Burroughs;A. Rufenacht;S.P. Benz;P.D. Dresselhaus

  • Differential Sampling Measurement of a 7 V RMS Sine Wave With a Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

    Alain Rufenacht;Charles J. Burroughs;Paul D. Dresselhaus;Samuel P. Benz

  • Impact of the latest generation of Josephson voltage standards in ac and dc electric metrology

    Alain Rüfenacht;Nathan E Flowers-Jacobs;Samuel P Benz

  • Josephson voltage standard-a review

    C.A. Hamilton;C.J. Burroughs;S.P. Benz

  • Practical high-resolution programmable Josephson Voltage standards using double- and triple-stacked MoSi/sub 2/-barrier junctions

    Yonuk Chong;C.J. Burroughs;P.D. Dresselhaus;N. Hadacek

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Dresselhaus
Paul D. Dresselhaus National Institute of Standards and Technology
Charles J. Burroughs
Charles J. Burroughs National Institute of Standards and Technology
Zoya Popovic
Zoya Popovic University of Colorado Boulder
Hermann Kohlstedt
Hermann Kohlstedt Kiel University
Dae Joon Kang
Dae Joon Kang Sungkyunkwan University
Mark G. Blamire
Mark G. Blamire University of Cambridge
Robert H. Hadfield
Robert H. Hadfield University of Glasgow
Dylan F. Williams
Dylan F. Williams National Institute of Standards and Technology

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