This month two guests visited IST Austria and our lab, Edward Laird from Oxford University and Thomas Watson from TU Delft. From Edward’s talk Sensing with quantum electronic devices: measuring qubits, motion, and time, as well as from informal discussions, we learned a lot about reflectometry. Thomas spoke about A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon and gave us plenty of useful advice and suggestions.

In March our three PhD students participated in German Physical Society Spring Meeting “Dresden 2017″ with contributed talks.

Our brand new cleanroom is officially opening. Looking forward to the fabrication of cool nanodevices!

It is always great to visit Sasha, Arlette and Giorgio at Leiden Cryogenics. We discussed the final details of the CF-CS110 which will be installed before summer at IST Austria. Looking forward to one more great fridge!

Together with Peter Traunmüller and Thomas Adeltzsberger we had the great pleasure to visit Raymond Schouten and his team at QuTech. We learned about the new features of the IVVI, the low noise electronics developed at TU Delft. Raymond and his team demonstrated us also their latest developments. This visit was definitely a source of inspiration.

Interested in the PhD program at IST Austria? Save the date! The Institute of Science and Technology Austria welcomes you on November 25 (Friday), 2016!

Join lab tours and “Meet the Research Group” sessions, where you get the opportunity to meet our professors, postdocs and PhD students and ask them about their research. Find out about our PhD program and internship opportunities from the Dean (Prof. Nick Barton) and the PhD Program Chair (Prof. Gasper Tkacik). Take a campus tour to learn more about the founding principles of IST Austria as well as its past and future developments.

More info you can find here!

if you leave it for a few hours with Thomas Adletzberger!

A big thanks to Thomas, Thomas, Todor and all the Miba Machine Shop gang!

Ready to cool down this week our first samples in the Bluefors fridge!

Thanks to the help of Michael, Thomas and Thomas everything is ready for the installation on Monday!

Heavy hole states in Germanium hut wires

Hannes Watzinger, Christoph Kloeffel, Lada Vukušić, Marta D. Rossell, Violetta Sessi, Josip Kukučka, Raimund Kirchschlager, Elisabeth Lausecker, Alisha Truhlar, Martin Glaser, Armando Rastelli, Andreas Fuhrer, Daniel Loss, Georgios Katsaros

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02977

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02715

Thomas Adletzberger from the Miba Machine Shop wired our probe in record time! He did an amazing job – we were able to load our first sample just one week after the fridge installation!