Karl Berggren

Electrical Engineering Faculty Head

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
Karl Berggren / Terry Orlando / Leonid Levitov / William Oliver / Sergio Valenzuela / Mark Rudner / David Berns
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
Karl Berggren / Xialong Hu / Dirk R Englund / Jacob Mower / Faraz Najafi
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Superconducting Nanowire Logic

Technology / Case number: #16186
Karl Berggren / Adam McCaughan
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
Karl Berggren / Kristen Sunter / Adam McCaughan / Faraz Najafi
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
Karl Berggren / Matthew Yeung / Ilya Prigozhin / Phillip Donald Keathley / Kevin Ryu
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
Franz Kaertner / Felix Ritzkowsky / Dario Cattozzo Mor / Phillip Donald Keathley / Mina Bionta / Marco Turchetti / Yujia Yang / William Putnam / 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
Karl Berggren / Phillip Donald Keathley / Mina Bionta / Marco Turchetti / Brenden Butters / Oguzhan Murat Onen
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Superconducting Inductive Processing Unit

Technology / Case number: #20129
Karl Berggren / Emily Toomey / Brenden Butters / Oguzhan Murat Onen
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
Karl Berggren / Jonathan Surick / Yachin Ivry
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Electronics & Photonics
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Distributed Nanowire Sensor for Single Photon Imaging

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