We welcome Aditi to our lab, who joins the maglev team as a PhD student. She will research on the read-out and control of levitated superconducting microparticles based on superconducting circuit technology. This will be much fun!

Interested in a Master thesis project in our lab? The new projects are out now. We offer thesis projects for 30cr (half a year) and 60cr (full year) on the following topics:

• Two-dimensional photonic crystals for quantum cavity optomechanics
• Squashing the motion of a crystalline piezoelectric nanomechanical resonators
• Characterization and flux-locking of superconducting flux-tunable resonators
• Design, simulation and fabrication of superconducting flux-tunable resonators
• Developing metamaterial-based vibration shields for chip-based magnetic traps
• Flexible microwave cables for cryogenic quantum experiments

Interested? Just get in contact with us!

You can also find these projects on Chalmers thesis portal.

How can one reduce adhesion of a microparticle resting on a silicon substrate? Interested? Some ideas are explored in our recent work: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13887

Thanks to the fantastic work by Fabian and Somiya!

We welcome Thomas Penny to our lab! Tom joins our maglev team as a PostDoc. He brings in his expertise from optical levitation experiments performed in David Moore’s group at Yale and Peter Barker’s group at UCL.

Our work on ‘Membrane phononic crystals for high-Q_m mechanical defect modes at MHz frequencies in piezoelectric aluminum nitride‘ has now been published in Appl. Phys. Lett.

Congrats to the team and our collaborators from the University of Magdeburg!

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