Karl Berggren

Joseph F and Nancy P Keithley Professor in EE

Department
Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials / Electronics & Photonics: Semiconductors, Quantum Technology, Photonics / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment / Computer Science: Quantum Computing / Sensing & Imaging: Imaging, Chemical & Radiation Sensing, Optical Sensing / Environmental Engineering: Water Treatment / Communication Systems: Optical / Therapeutics: Cell Based Therapy

Background and Education

Prof. Berggren is the faculty head of electrical engineering Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group. From 1996 to 2003, Prof. Berggren served as a staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, and from 2010 to 2011, was on sabbatical at the Delft in the Netherlands.

His current research focuses on superconductive circuits, electronic devices, single-photon detectors for quantum applications, and electron-optical systems.

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow of AAAS and a fellow of IEEE
  • Kavli fellow
  • Recipient of the 2015 Paul T. Forman Team Engineering Award from the Optical Society of America
  • Bose Fellowship | 2015
  • EECS Department’s Frank Quick Innovation Fellowship
  • Burgess (‘52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • MIT MacVicar fellow | 2024

Technologies

Amplitude Spectroscopy of a Solid-State Artificial Atom

Technology / Case number: #13407L
David Berns / Mark Rudner / Sergio Valenzuela / William Oliver / Leonid Levitov / Terry Orlando / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Sensing & Imaging / Therapeutics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Integration of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector in Photonic Integrated Chips

Technology / Case number: #15175J
Faraz Najafi / Jacob Mower / Dirk R Englund / Xialong Hu / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Superconducting Nanowire Logic

Technology / Case number: #16186
Adam McCaughan / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Optimized 180 Degree Turns for Multiple Nanowire Superconducting Detectors

Technology / Case number: #17420
Faraz Najafi / Adam McCaughan / Kristen Sunter / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Infrared Detection Through Enhanced Electron Emission from Nanoantennas

Technology / Case number: #25697L
Kevin Ryu / Phillip Donald Keathley / Ilya Prigozhin / Matthew Yeung / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Communication Systems / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Integrated Optical Field Sampling Platform

Technology / Case number: #22691J
Yujia Yang / Marco Turchetti / Mina Bionta / Phillip Donald Keathley / Dario Cattozzo Mor / Felix Ritzkowsky / William Putnam / Franz Kaertner / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Industrial Engineering & Automation / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Connected World
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Single-Photon Single-Flux Coupled Detectors

Technology / Case number: #21857
Oguzhan Murat Onen / Brenden Butters / Marco Turchetti / Mina Bionta / Phillip Donald Keathley / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Superconducting Inductive Processing Unit

Technology / Case number: #20129
Oguzhan Murat Onen / Brenden Butters / Emily Toomey / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Hybrid Superconducting Structures and Devices

Technology / Case number: #18100
Yachin Ivry / Jonathan Surick / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
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Distributed Nanowire Sensor for Single Photon Imaging

Technology / Case number: #18503
Qingyuan Zhao / Karl Berggren
Technology Areas: Computer Science / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
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