Program

Electronics

The ASC 2024 conference program on superconductive electronics will focus on devices and technologies that enable high-performance applications, including advanced computing, sensors and detection, quantum-based precision measurements, superconductive electronics-based systems, and quantum engineering. In 2022 we welcomed several new quantum systems topics to our program for a unique opportunity for the Quantum Information community to present their latest results in quantum computing/communication/sensing that involve the use of superconductors in any part of the Quantum System. As in years past, the program will also be home to the Transition-Edge-Sensor (TES) Workshop, which has been an important part of ASC since 2008 (see additional information further below).

Large Scale

The ASC 2024 conference program on large-scale systems will focus on superconducting magnets, superconducting cables, and related technologies for high energy physics, nuclear fusion, high magnetic fields, biological and analytical sciences, medicine, power, energy, transportation, and emerging fields.

Materials

The ASC 2024 conference program on superconducting materials will focus on advances in processing, characterization, properties, industrial fabrication of superconducting thin films, bulks, wires/tapes, cables, high strength and insulation materials, SRF cavity materials for frontier physics, magnets and power applications.

Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) Workshop

Transition-edge sensors, or TESs, are superconducting, thermal detectors. The energy of incoming photons or particles, or the energy of a nuclear reaction within an embedded material, is converted to heat in an absorber. A TES operates in the resistive transition between its superconducting and normal-metal states, where the electrical resistance is a strong function of temperature. Thus, the heat of absorption raises the device temperature and resistance. A SQUID ammeter measures changes in the device current. TESs are increasingly used in many measurement fields, including cosmic microwave background cosmology, X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy, quantum information, dark-matter searches, and measurement of the neutrino mass.

The first TES Workshop was held in 2002, with the goal that TES researchers from across the globe could share, discuss, and understand confusing experimental results from their early TESs of different geometries and materials systems. The TES Workshop has been held every two years since and has been joined to the Applied Superconductivity Conference since 2008. In 2020 the scope of the TES workshop expanded to include other detectors that share some elements of design, physics, or readout with TESs, and are thus of interest to the TES community. These include kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs), magnetic calorimeters, and hot-electron bolometers.

TESs provide interesting laboratories in which to study the nature of superconductivity itself. The TES Workshop has sessions dedicated to device physics, device readout, measurement applications, fabrication, and more. At ASC24, the TES Workshop will include a Special Session highlighting the ongoing work in detectors, readout, and modules of the CMB-S4 project.

To be added to the email list for this and future TES Workshops, please join here. The TES Workshop email list is separate from that of the wider ASC conference. Please follow this link for additional information or reach us by email at tesworkshop2024@gmail.com.

Organized by: Shannon Duff (NIST), Douglas Bennett (NIST), Kaja Rotermund (LBNL), and Paul Szypryt (NIST/CU-Boulder)