Maria G. Castellano

Maria G. Castellano was born in Orvieto, an ancient etruscan town in middle Italy, in 1956. She studied physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and got her Laurea degree in 1978. She works with CNR, the National Research Council, since 1982, as a Staff Researcher. Till 1991, she worked in the Rome Gravitational Wave group, developing thin-film dc-SQUIDs as low-noise amplifiers for the group resonant detectors, at CERN, Geneva, and Frascati, Italy. In 1991, she moved to Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Rome. She has been working on Josephson and single-electron devices, including microfabrication, for applications of high sensitivity SQUIDs, hot-electron microbolometers, electrometers, and fundamental studies of quantum properties. Presently, her major interest is in quantum computing with superconducting devices. She teaches a course on micro- and nano-fabrication at the Engineering Department, Universita dell’Aquila, and gives lectures in the Ph.D. courses at the physics departments of the three universities of Rome. She serves in the scientific committee of the Material and Devices Department of CNR and she is Coordinator of the microfabrication facility of her Institute. Dr. Castellano is author of more than 100 papers.

Biography Updated on 6 June 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Electrical characterization of superconducting single-photon detectors
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 101, no. 5, p. 054302, 2007
  2. Catastrophe Observation in a Josephson-Junction System
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 17, 2007
  3. Static flux bias of a flux qubit using persistent current trapping
    Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1158–1163, 2006
  4. Characterization of a fabrication process for the integration of superconducting qubits and rapid-single-flux-quantum circuits
    Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 860–864, 2006
  5. Fabrication and test of Superconducting Single Photon Detectors
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 559, no. 2, pp. 564–566, 2006
  6. Investigation of Josephson interferometer potentials by ac excitations
    Physica C: Superconductivity, vol. 437-438, pp. 46–51, 2006
  7. Variable transformer for controllable flux coupling
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 15, p. 152504, 2005
  8. Superconducting tunable flux qubit with direct readout scheme
    Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1370–1373, 2005
  9. A New Flux/Phase Qubit With Integrated Readout
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 849–851, 2005
  10. Microwave-Induced Thermal Escape in Josephson Junctions
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, no. 10, 2004
  11. Publisher's Note: Microwave-Induced Thermal Escape in Josephson Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107002 (2004)]
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, no. 11, 2004
  12. Laser switch for stroboscopic read-out of magnetic flux
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 75, no. 6, p. 2116, 2004
  13. Measurement and control of the electronic temperature in small thin-film structures
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 93, no. 6, p. 3572, 2003
  14. Electron thermometry and refrigeration with doped silicon and superconducting electrodes
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 94, no. 12, p. 7784, 2003
  15. Tracing the characteristics of a flux qubit with a hysteretic dc-superconducting quantum interference device comparator
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 94, no. 12, p. 7935, 2003
  16. Macroscopic quantum behavior of superconducting quantum interference devices
    Fortschritte der Physik, vol. 51, no. 45, pp. 288–294, 2003
  17. Quantum dynamics of a microwave-driven SQUID
    Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1337–1339, 2003
  18. International Journal of Modern Physics B [Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics], vol. 17, no. 4 & 6, p. 675, 2003
  19. Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1905–1910, 2002
  20. dc-SQUID readout electronics with infrared remote control
    Physica C: Superconductivity, vol. 368, no. 1-4, pp. 157–160, 2002
  21. Measurements for an experiment of macroscopic quantum coherence with SQUIDs
    Physica C: Superconductivity, vol. 372-376, pp. 213–216, 2002
  22. Stroboscopic single-shot detection of the flux state in a radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 80, no. 17, p. 3150, 2002
  23. Thermal characterization of a hot-electron micro-bolometer
    Physica C: Superconductivity, vol. 352, no. 1-4, pp. 153–157, 2001
  24. Aluminum single-electron transistors studied at 0.3 K in different transport regimes
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 89, no. 11, p. 6545, 2001
  25. Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 1031–1034, 2001
  26. Superconductor Science and Technology, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 1156–1160, 2001
  27. SQUID systems for macroscopic quantum coherence and quantum computing
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 210–214, 2001
  28. A hysteretic dc SQUID reading the flux states of an rf SQUID
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 990–993, 2001
  29. International Journal of Modern Physics B [Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics], vol. 14, no. 25 & 27, p. 3056, 2000
  30. Use of a dc superconducting quantum interference device as read-out electronics for radiation detectors based on superconducting tunnel junctions
    Philosophical Magazine B, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 919–927, 2000
  31. High-sensitivity DC-SQUID measurements
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 280, no. 1-4, pp. 537–539, 2000
  32. Escape of a Josephson vortex trapped in an annular Josephson junction
    Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 284-288, pp. 585–586, 2000
  33. Journal of Superconductivity, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 773–781, 1999
  34. Effects of energy-level quantization on the supercurrent decay of Josephson junctions
    Physical Review B, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 177–180, 1999
  35. Measurement of the Intrinsic Dissipation of a Macroscopic System in the Quantum Regime
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 26, pp. 5357–5360, 1999
  36. Electron cooling by arrays of submicron tunnel junctions
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 85, no. 7, p. 3877, 1999
  37. Return current in hysteretic Josephson junctions: Experimental distribution in the thermal activation regime
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 86, no. 11, p. 6405, 1999
  38. Simple lithographic technique for chip repairing using a light microscope
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 500, 1999
  39. Energy level quantization in underdamped niobium Josephson junctions [Nb/AlO/sub x//Nb]
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 3978–3981, 1999
  40. A probe for the investigation of the superconducting metastable state in YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7-x] step-edge junctions
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 72, no. 14, p. 1760, 1998
  41. Low noise multiwasher superconducting interferometer
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 72, no. 1, p. 115, 1998
  42. Measurements of thermal switching between metastable flux states in a RF-SQUID with intermediate damping
    Applied Superconductivity, vol. 5, no. 7-12, pp. 405–411, 1997
  43. The effective dissipation in Nb/AlO[sub x]/Nb Josephson tunnel junctions by return current measurements
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 81, no. 11, p. 7418, 1997
  44. Low 1/f flux noise in sputtered YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7-x] bicrystal dc-superconducting quantum interference devices
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 82, no. 8, p. 3922, 1997
  45. Magnetic field dependence of thermal excitations in Josephson junctions
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2430–2433, 1997
  46. Superconductor-insulator-normal tunnel junctions for on-chip measurement of the temperature
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3251–3254, 1997
  47. An absolute magnetometer based on dc Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices
    Europhysics Letters, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 569–574, 1997
  48. Switching dynamics of Nb/AlOx/Nb Josephson junctions: Measurements for an experiment of macroscopic quantum coherence
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 80, no. 5, p. 2922, 1996
  49. Thermally activated escape from the zero-voltage state in long Josephson junctions
    Physical Review B, vol. 54, no. 21, pp. 15417–15428, 1996
  50. Sub-micron niobium electrodes for dielectrophoresis applications
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 30, no. 1-4, pp. 555–558, 1996
  51. Coupling of long Josephson junction oscillators at millimeter-wave frequencies
    IEEE Transactions on Appiled Superconductivity, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 2500–2503, 1993
  52. Recent experimental work on point-contact dc squid
    Physica B+C, vol. 108, no. 1-3, pp. 1089–1090, 1981