Join us in sunny Brisbane! Fully funded PhD position in STM of metal-organic frameworks study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

It was great hosting Katerina as a visiting PhD student in Brisbane! Congratulations on your accomplishment! 🎉🎉

CIC nanoGUNE@nanogune.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tomorrow... 📢 #PhDThesisDefense 📆 20 FEB 2026, 10 am at CFM Auditorium 🗣️ Katerina Vaxevani, #quantumprobemicroscopy  👉 will defend her PhD Thesis: "Proximity-Induced Superconductivity on Noble Metals as a Platform for Molecular Magnetism" 👩‍🔬 Congratulations!

New preprint: A little titanium can help clean up tantalum for better superconducting resonators arxiv.org/abs/2601.16369

Reducing TLS loss in tantalum CPW resonators using titanium sacrificial layers

We demonstrate a substantial reduction in two-level system loss in tantalum coplanar waveguide resonators fabricated on high-resistivity silicon substrates through the use of an ultrathin titanium sac...

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In the 1930s, this quantum mechanical pioneer faced obstacles that still confront women in physics today. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/who-was...

Nice write up on our work in Physics World! physicsworld.com/a/scientists...

Scientists realize superconductivity in traditional semiconducting material – Physics World

Superconducting germanium could find application in a new generation of quantum devices

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A new edition of my emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, is here. What's inside: 💻 Nvidia has announced a bunch of new emerging tech partnerships 🏦 Why AI models can't handle investment banking ⚡ Scientists built a superconducting semiconductor And more! www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...

Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why AI models struggle with finance, a revolutionary superconducting discovery, Pac-Man and more.

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A new type of germanium superconductor could allow classical and quantum chips to be built into one device, creating better and more reliable quantum computers.

Germanium superconductor could help build reliable quantum computers

A new type of germanium superconductor could allow classical and quantum chips to be built into one device, creating better and more reliable quantum computers.

newscientist.com

Excited this is finally out! Great collab with Javad Shabani’s group at NYU, DFT magic from @carlaverdi.bsky.social, synchrotron sorcery @ansto.bsky.social by Julian Steele www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Superconductivity in substitutional Ga-hyperdoped Ge epitaxial thin films - Nature Nanotechnology

The epitaxial growth of hyperdoped Ga:Ge films and trilayer heterostructures by molecular-beam epitaxy yield superconductivity with a critical temperature of 3.5 K and may enable quantum functionaliti...

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Thanks to Peter Jacobson (@spmqt.bsky.social) from the University of Queensland for visiting and showing us his team's exciting research on the epitaxial growth of hyperdoped Ga:Ge superconductors. #SPMQT_Lab #seminar

Join our group in Brisbane! Two year postdoc focused on STM of quantum materials #scijobs #physics #postdoc uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare... UQ Careers

1/ Our new preprint is up on arXiv: “Superconductivity in Epitaxial SiGe for Cryogenic Electronics” arxiv.org/abs/2412.15421 This work is in collaboration with Javad Shabani’s group at NYU. Julian Steele led the synchrotron experiments, Patrick Strohbeen the MBE growth, @carlaverdi.bsky.social DFT

Superconductivity in Epitaxial SiGe for Cryogenic Electronics

Introducing superconductivity into group IV elements by doping has long promised a pathway to introduce quantum functionalities into well-established semiconductor technologies. The non-equilibrium hy...

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#PhysicsFactlet: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project" I will try to (likely very slowly) make one or more visualization per chapter of "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin, with the hope that they will be useful to people teaching/learning solid state Physics. 1/

📅Abstracts are due soon for the 2025 Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting. Join us in beautiful Brisbane to discuss recent advances in condensed matter research in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere. More details: www.aip.org.au/CMM-Conference #Physics #Conference #Australia #UQ #QUT