- Assistant Professor of Physics, Queens College
- Affiliate Faculty, Nanoscience Initiative
Timothy M. Benseman, Ph.D.
Affiliation
Department of Physics, Queens College (Profile)
Research Interests
Stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) in extremely anisotropic high-temperature superconductors such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 are a promising compact solid-state source of coherent radiation in the ‘terahertz gap’ range. At present, no such sources exist in the range from approximately 0.5 THz to 1.3 THz, and this region is of particular interest for many applications in science, medicine, and high-bandwidth communications, as well as and security and defense. Josephson plasmons propagating in IJJs can also be employed for signal-processing electronics at THz frequencies.
Job History
- 2015 – Current: Assistant Professor of Physics, Queens College
- 2010 – 2015: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
- 2007 – 2010: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2003 – 2007: Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK
- 2003: M.Sc., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Publications
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Thick Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ films grown by liquid-phase epitaxy for Josephson THz applications |
Temperature and field dependence of the intrinsic tunnelling structure in overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ |
