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In Phase II of the Project 8 neutrino mass experiment, electrons from the decays of tritium or ${}^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr are detected via their $\approx$26 GHz cyclotron radiation while contained within a circular waveguide. The signal from a…
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Control and readout of superconducting quantum bits (qubits) require microwave pulses with gigahertz frequencies and nanosecond precision. To generate and analyze these microwave pulses, we developed a versatile FPGA-based electronics…
Fundamental to integrated photonic quantum computing is an on-chip method for routing and modulating quantum light emission. We demonstrate a hybrid integration platform consisting of arbitrarily designed waveguide circuits and single…
After 38 years of birthday Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (DHKE), there are many proposed improvements in the DHKE protocol to encounter modern security issues. This protocol seems quite simple to be implemented, but it can be vulnerable to…
We present a multi-purpose toolkit for digital processing, acquisition and feedback control designed for physics labs. The kit provides in a compact device the functionalities of several instruments: function generator, oscilloscope,…
Quantum computers are rapidly becoming more capable, with dramatic increases in both qubit count and quality. Among different hardware approaches, trapped-ion quantum processors are a leading technology for quantum computing, with…
The main role of the ITER Radial Neutron Camera (RNC) diagnostic is to measure in real-time the plasma neutron emissivity profile at high peak count rates for a time duration up to 500 s. Due to the unprecedented high performance conditions…
The DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) detector is designed to directly search for dark matter by detecting weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scattering off nuclei in a 20 tonnes target of low radioactivity Argon from underground sources, in…
A simplified digital spectrometer for the study of $\gamma$-rays with energies up to $\sim100$ MeV is presented and tested. The spectrometer is only consisted of a fast digital oscilloscope and three scintillation detectors which can work…
Several high-performance lab instruments suitable for manual assembly have been developed using low-pin-count 32-bit microcontrollers that communicate with an Android tablet via a USB interface. A single Android tablet app accommodates…
As integrated circuit (IC) geometry and packaging become more sophisticated with ongoing fabrication and design innovations, the electrical engineering community needs increasingly-powerful failure analysis (FA) methods to meet the growing…
We describe a cryogenic instrumentation platform incorporating commercially-available field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) configured to operate well beyond their specified temperature range. The instrument enables signal routing,…
Building upon existing signal processing techniques and open-source software, this paper presents a baseline design for an RF System-on-Chip Frequency Division Multiplexed readout for a spatio-spectral focal plane instrument based on low…
As processors increase in complexity, costs grow even more rapidly, both for functional verification and performance validation. Most often, silicon characterizations comprise simple performance counters, which are aggregated and separated…
The present paper describes the design of a cost effective, better resolution data acquisition system (DAS) which is compatible to most of the PC and laptops. A low cost DAS has been designed using PIC12F675 having 4-channel analog input…
The continued advancements of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have made them viable photosensors for low recoil energy Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) between fast neutron and gamma interactions when coupled to an appropriate…
In September 2008 the Slim5 collaboration submitted a low material budget silicon demonstrator to test with 12 GeV/c protons, at the PS-T9 test-beam at CERN. Inside the reference telescope, two different detectors were placed as device…
Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important and widespread technique for sensing molecules, has encountered barriers stemming from sources either limited in tuning range or excessively bulky for practical field use. We present a compact,…