Superconducting quantum engineering at the CSIRO

Full text: Superconductivity is an extremely fruitful and exciting field of research, which has been awarded five Nobel prizes in since 1911. One unique property of superconducting systems, their macroscopic quantum behaviour, makes them ideal candidates to engineer quantum states for various applications. CSIRO Industrial Physics has a strong background in both low (LTS) and high (HTS) temperature superconductivity developed over the past 30 years. Having researched Josephson junctions and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for a range of applications, new devices have been fabricated including nanoSQUIDs, absolute value detectors and HTS axial gradiometers for a diverse range of applications. Recent work has also considered two-state quantum systems for operation at milli-kelvin temperatures. This talk will describe some of the history of superconductivity, the related work at CSIRO and recent our research in quantum engineering. Copyright (2005) Australian Institute of Physics