Ruben Asanovski is awarded the prestigious "Roger Haken" Best student paper award at the 2022 International Electron Device Meeting

We congratulate Ruben Asanovski, PhD student of the International Ph.D. school in ICT, who has been awarded the presigious "Roger Haken" Best student paper award at the 2022 IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco from Dec.3 to Dec.7 for his research contribution entitled "New insights on the excess 1/f noise at cryogenic temperatures in 28 nm CMOS and Ge MOSFETs for quantum computing applications". The work has been carried out in collaboration with IMEC (Belgium) under the co-supervision of Prof. Luca Selmi (UniMORE) and Prof. Pierpaolo Palestri (UniUD). The prize consists of a plaque, a 1000 USD Award, and a finantial contribution to participate to the next edition of the meeting in San Francisco next year. where the prize will be conferred.

The IEEE is the largest electrical and electronics engineering association wordwide and IEDM is the premiere conference in the field of semiconductor device research and technology.

Ruben Asanovski investigated an aspect of interest for the design of new hardware for quantum computing. This is a very hot and relevant topic both for data security and encryption, and for high-performance computing. Combining experimental measurements carried out in person at the IMEC laboratories (supported in part by an internationalization grant of UniMORE) with analyses and theoretical models developed at UniMORE, Ruben Asanovski highlighted the generality, and explained in detail, a new phenomenon that limits the performance of both the silicon quantum bits (qubits) at the basis of many quantum computers, and of their reading and control electronics. The study, rigorously discarding various possible but fallacious explanations, paves the way for the potential identification of performance improvement strategies.