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Publications

This page lists research and publications on superconducting detectors and electronics produced while working as a Research Associate in the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group at MIT.

Publications by Year

2026

  1. A scalable superconducting nanowire memory array with row–column addressing Medeiros et al. (2026)
    Nature Electronics, 1-9 (2026)

  2. Reconfigurable Superconducting Logic for On-Chip Photon Coincidence Detection Guay et al. (2026)
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22101 (2026)

2025

  1. A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier Castellani et al. (2025)
    Nature Electronics, 8(5), 417-425 (2025)

  2. Time-tagging data acquisition system for testing superconducting electronics based on an RFSoC and custom analog frontend Foster et al. (2025)
    Journal of Instrumentation, 20(09), P09018 (2025)

  3. High-Fidelity Control of a Strongly Coupled Electro-Nuclear Spin-Photon Interface Harris et al. (2025)
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09267 (2025)

  4. Superconducting Nanowire Integrated Circuits for Scalable Cryogenic Memory Medeiros (2025)
    PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2025)

  5. Parameter extraction for a SPICE model of an hTron superconducting thermal switch Karam et al. (2025)
    Physical Review Applied, 24(2), 024020 (2025)

  6. Ab initio modeling of nonequilibrium dynamics in superconducting detectors and qubits Simon et al. (2025)
    Physical Review B, 112(17), 174512 (2025)

  7. Single-photon detectors on arbitrary photonic substrates Tao et al. (2025)
    ACS Photonics, 12(5), 2325-2330 (2025)

  8. Building blocks for quantum information processing with color centers in silicon Saggio et al. (2025)
    CLEO: Science and Innovations, SS193_1 (2025)

2024

  1. Nanocryotron ripple counter integrated with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector for megapixel arrays Castellani et al. (2024)
    Physical Review Applied, 22(2), 024020 (2024)

  2. Molybdenum Silicide Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors on Lithium Niobate Waveguides Colangelo et al. (2024)
    ACS Photonics, 11(2), 356-361 (2024)

  3. Technology development for a low-mass solar system and interstellar communications system Mauskopf et al. (2024)
    Free-Space Laser Communications XXXVI, 12877, 526-544 (2024)

  4. Characterizing and modeling the influence of geometry on the performance of superconducting nanowire cryotrons Simon et al. (2024)
    IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 35(5), 1-5 (2024)

2023

  1. Reduced ITO for transparent superconducting electronics Batson et al. (2023)
    Superconductor Science and Technology, 36(5), 055009 (2023)

  2. A nanocryotron memory and logic family Buzzi et al. (2023)
    Applied Physics Letters, 122(14) (2023)

  3. Single-photon detection using high-temperature superconductors Charaev et al. (2023)
    Nature Nanotechnology, 18(4), 343-349 (2023)

  4. Integrated quantum memories at 1.3 k with tin-vacancy centers and photonic circuits Christen et al. (2023)
    CLEO: Science and Innovations, SM1K-6 (2023)

  5. A superconducting nanowire binary shift register Foster et al. (2023)
    Applied Physics Letters, 122(15) (2023)

2022

  1. Investigation of thin film supercurrent and photodetection in wide niobium nitride wires Medeiros (2022)
    PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022)

  2. Reversible Tuning of Superconductivity in Ion-Gated NbN Ultrathin Films by Self-Encapsulation with a High-κ Dielectric Layer Piatti et al. (2022)
    Physical Review Applied, 18(5), 054023 (2022)

2021

  1. A scalable superconducting nanowire memory cell and preliminary array test Butters et al. (2021)
    Superconductor Science and Technology, 34(3), 035003 (2021)

  2. NbN-gated GaN transistor technology for applications in quantum computing systems Xie et al. (2021)
    2021 Symposium on VLSI Technology, 1-2 (2021)

2020

  1. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector on thin-film lithium niobate photonic waveguide Colangelo et al. (2020)
    CLEO: Science and Innovations, SM4O-4 (2020)

  2. Control of bulk superconductivity via surface-bound electric fields in ion-gated niobium nitride thin films Piatti et al. (2020)
    Proceedings of the 11th Conference “Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces”, 1, 67-69 (2020)

2019

  1. Measuring thickness in thin NbN films for superconducting devices Medeiros et al. (2019)
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 37(4) (2019)

2016

  1. Affordable photolithography with biomedical applications Caraballo et al. (2016)
    2016 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), 1-4 (2016)

Complete Bibliography

References
  1. Medeiros, O., Castellani, M., Karam, V., Foster, R., Simon, A., Incalza, F., Butters, B., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2026). A scalable superconducting nanowire memory array with row–column addressing. Nature Electronics, 1–9.
  2. Guay, G. L., Castellani, M., Foster, R., Incalza, F., Simon, A., Medeiros, O., Keathley, P. D., & Berggren, K. K. (2026). Reconfigurable Superconducting Logic for On-Chip Photon Coincidence Detection. arXiv Preprint arXiv:2604.22101.
  3. Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., Buzzi, A., Foster, R. A., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2025). A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier. Nature Electronics, 8(5), 417–425.
  4. Foster, R. A., Kandeh, S., Medeiros, O., Simon, A., Castellani, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2025). Time-tagging data acquisition system for testing superconducting electronics based on an RFSoC and custom analog frontend. Journal of Instrumentation, 20(09), P09018.
  5. Harris, I. B., Christen, I., Patomäki, S. M., Raniwala, H., Sirotin, M., Colangelo, M., Chen, K. C., Errando-Herranz, C., Starling, D. J., Murphy, R., & others. (2025). High-Fidelity Control of a Strongly Coupled Electro-Nuclear Spin-Photon Interface. arXiv Preprint arXiv:2505.09267.
  6. Medeiros, O. A. (2025). Superconducting Nanowire Integrated Circuits for Scalable Cryogenic Memory [Phdthesis]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  7. Karam, V., Medeiros, O., Dandachi, T. E., Castellani, M., Foster, R., Berggren, K., & Colangelo, M. (2025). Parameter extraction for a SPICE model of an hTron superconducting thermal switch. Physical Review Applied, 24(2), 024020.
  8. Simon, A., Foster, R., Sahoo, M., Shi, J., Batson, E., Incalza, F., Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., Heil, C., & Berggren, K. K. (2025). Ab initio modeling of nonequilibrium dynamics in superconducting detectors and qubits. Physical Review B, 112(17), 174512.
  9. Tao, M., Larocque, H., Gyger, S., Colangelo, M., Medeiros, O., Christen, I., Sattari, H., Choong, G., Petremand, Y., Prieto, I., & others. (2025). Single-photon detectors on arbitrary photonic substrates. ACS Photonics, 12(5), 2325–2330.
  10. Saggio, V., Larocque, H., Tao, M., Prabhu, M., Buzzi, A., Gu, Q., Pirro, M., Papon, C., Hooybergs, O., De Santis, L., & others. (2025). Building blocks for quantum information processing with color centers in silicon. CLEO: Science and Innovations, SS193_1.
  11. Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., Foster, R. A., Buzzi, A., Colangelo, M., Bienfang, J. C., Restelli, A., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Nanocryotron ripple counter integrated with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector for megapixel arrays. Physical Review Applied, 22(2), 024020.
  12. Colangelo, M., Zhu, D., Shao, L., Holzgrafe, J., Batson, E. K., Desiatov, B., Medeiros, O., Yeung, M., Loncar, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Molybdenum Silicide Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors on Lithium Niobate Waveguides. ACS Photonics, 11(2), 356–361.
  13. Mauskopf, P., Angel, R., Atwater, H., Bazzanid, E., Berggren, K., Blase, P., Corvaja, R., Davoyan, A., Eubanks, T. M., Guglielmi, A. V., & others. (2024). Technology development for a low-mass solar system and interstellar communications system. Free-Space Laser Communications XXXVI, 12877, 526–544.
  14. Simon, A., Foster, R., Medeiros, O., Castellani, M., Batson, E., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Characterizing and modeling the influence of geometry on the performance of superconducting nanowire cryotrons. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 35(5), 1–5.
  15. Batson, E., Colangelo, M., Simonaitis, J., Gebremeskel, E., Medeiros, O., Saravanapavanantham, M., Bulovic, V., Keathley, P. D., & Berggren, K. K. (2023). Reduced ITO for transparent superconducting electronics. Superconductor Science and Technology, 36(5), 055009.
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