Disputas: Bjørnar Karlsen

Bjørn Karlsen skal holde prøveforelesning og disputas for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d) ved campus Vestfold 12. desember.

12 Dec

Praktisk informasjon

  • Dato: 12 desember 2019
  • Tid: kl. 10.00 - 15.00
  • Sted: Vestfold, rom A1-35
  • Last ned kalenderfil

    • Bedømmelseskomité:

    • Første opponent: Professor Erkki Ikonen, Aalto University, Finland.
    • Andre opponent: Professor Olav Gaute Hellesø, UiT
    • Administrator: Nils Deneke Høivik, USN.

    Veiledere

    • Hovedveileder: Ph.d. Helge Malmbekk, Justervesenet.
    • Medveiledere: Professorene Per A. Øhlckers og Muhammad Nadeem Akram, USN.

Nærbilde av disputant bjørnar karlsen

Bjørn Karlsen har til forsvar for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Fakultet for teknologi, naturvitenskap og maritime fag, innlevert avhandling med tittelen «Design of optically controlled AC Josephson arrays and voltage dividers for high precision voltage metrology».

Prøveforelesningen «New approaches to the Quantum Hall Effect: Graphene and topological insulators» holdes kl 10:15 og disputas kl 13:00  i auditorium A1-35 ved campus Vestfold torsdag 12. desember. 

Åpent for alle interesserte.

Om avhandlingen

Through several design iterations, a buffer amplifier has been developed, with a near unity gain in an entire decade of applied voltages and frequencies up to 1 MHz. It has been used together with a 10:1 resistive voltage divider, which has also been developed as a part of this work. This combination has been characterized for applied voltages up to 50 V for frequencies up to 100 kHz, using thermal transfer standards.

A cryogenically operable packaging technique of a photodiode has been developed, and used to generate both uni- and bipolar current pulses in liquid helium. The unipolar module has also been used to drive various Josephson junction arrays consisting of up to 3000 junctions to synthesize both direct current voltage and unipolar alternating current voltage waveforms. This part of the thesis mainly focuses on the requirements and abilities of the laser-pulsation sources and the photodiode packages to produce current pulses that can realize the Josephson effect in these arrays. By investigating methods of increasing the pulsation bit rate, and operation of multiple photodiodes from a single source, waveforms with a higher amplitude can be synthesized in these arrays.

Mach-Zehnder modulation of a continuous-wave laser has been performed to generate photo-current pulse widths (full-width-at-half-maximum) as short as 62 ps in the bipolar module, and peak heights up to 16 mA for wider pulses in the unipolar module. A mode-locked laser has been used to generate photo-current pulse widths as short as 37 ps in the bipolar module, and with peak heights up to 6.34 mA. The unipolar photodiode module has been used to operate a single array of 3000 Josephson junctions to synthesize a unipolar waveforms with 18.6 mV peak height at 1.875 kHz, and a 92 dBc suppression of higher harmonics.