Jan Kycia, University of Waterloo
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Jan Kycia received a B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University in 1989. In 1991 he completed a M.Sc. Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D. in Physics.
Kycia was awarded the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1998, the Research Corporation’s Research Innovation Award (for Novel TES detector) in 2001 and the Ontario Early Research Award, (Applied superconducting devices) in 2007.
Jan Kycia's group works on the experimental investigation of quantum mechanical properties of sub-micron and micron scaled superconducting devices. In particular superconducting single electron transistors (sSETs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). Attention is focused on gaining a better understanding of how dissipation and the environment affect the states of the devices. The group is also studying the 1/f noise in Josephson junctions. This 1/f noise may be an intrinsic limitation to the coherence time of superconductor-based qubits.