Building Instruments to Understand Our Universe

Our team specializes in the development, production, and evaluation of highly sensitive detectors, antennas, and readout electronics for a diverse range of cosmology experiments. These endeavors capitalize on the extraordinary properties of superconductivity and the principles of microwave engineering. Through the application of these cutting-edge techniques, we are interested in getting insights into the early universe by exploring the Cosmic Microwave Background, unravel the mysteries of the Dark Ages, comprehend the nature of Dark Matter, delve into the physics of neutrinos, and beyond.

• 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)