Building Instruments to Understand Our Universe

Our team specializes in the development of highly sensitive detectors, antennas, and readout electronics for a wide range of cosmology experiments. These efforts leverage the remarkable properties of superconductivity and the principles of microwave engineering. By applying these advanced techniques, we aim to gain insights into the early universe through the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background, explore the mysteries of the Dark Ages, understand the nature of Dark Matter, investigate the physics of neutrinos, and beyond. 

• 2025-09-15: Berkeley Lab Engineer designs hardware for the moon’s unforgiving environment: link

• 2025-02-10: LuSEE-Night is on astrodon https://astrodon.social/@lusee_night 

• 2023-09-27: Listening to the Radio on the Far Side of the Moon (link, link, link, link, link, link, link)

• 2023-09-12: Firefly Awarded $18 Million NASA Contract to Provide Radio Frequency Calibration Services from Lunar Orbit (link)

• 2023-09-11: Our team has been awarded $8,000,000 by DOE to develop ultrahigh frequency phononics for next generation superconducting quantum technologies. (link)

• 2023-09-08: CMB-S4 announces L2 and L3 management changes for the detectors subsystem (link) 

• 2023-03-14: NASA picks firefly aerospace for robotic delivery to far side of moon (link)

• 2023-03-07: Department of Energy and NASA Join Forces on Innovative Lunar Experiment  (link)

• 2020-09-09: Lead Lab Selected for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment (link)

• 2019-05-09: Simons Observatory Twitter (link)

• 2019-03-20: LBNL Commercializing TES Detectors for CMB Projects (Superconductor week magazine, Vol. 33, No. 2)

• 2019-01-17: Scientists Team Up With Industry to Mass-Produce Detectors for Next-Gen Cosmic Experiment (link)

• 2019-01-02: SQUID co-development with STAR Cryoelectronics and University of New Mexico highlighted by Cryogenic Society of America (link)

• 2018-12-20: LDRD Funding for FY19 Announced (link)

• 2018-06-21: 6 Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards (link)

Also see: 

• LBNL physics cosmology group's website 

• LBNL physics detector R&D group's website