Dr. Silvia Ruffieux

Contact

Office3.15
Phone061 207 37 60
Mailsilvia.ruffieux[at]unibas.ch
Address

Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056 Basel, Switzerland

CV

Since 2022:

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Quantum Sensing Group of Patrick Maletinsky, Department of Physics

Research topic: Fabrication and optimization of diamond NV center magnetometers

2021-2022:

Parental leave

2020Postdoctoral researcher, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Continuation of my PhD project

2015-2020

PhD, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Quantum Device Physics, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience – MC2

Thesis: High-temperature superconducting magnetometers for on-scalp MEG

Supervisors: Dag Winkler, Justin F. Schneiderman, Alexei Kalaboukhov

2011-2015

Teaching Diploma in Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

2012-2015

Master of Science in Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

Thesis: Towards cavity QED experiments with Rydberg atoms coupled to a 3D microwave cavity

Quantum Device Lab of Andreas Wallraff, Department of Physics

2009-2012

Bachelor of Science in Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

Selected Publications

 

Feedback solutions for low crosstalk in dense arrays of high-TcSQUIDs for on-scalp MEG
S. Ruffieux, M. Xie, M. Chukharkin, C. Pfeiffer, A. Kalaboukhov, D. Winkler and J. F. Schneiderman
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 30, 054006 (2017)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6668/aa65a2

 

The role of kinetic inductance on the performance of YBCOSQUID magnetometers
S. Ruffieux
, A. Kalaboukhov, M. Xie, M. Chukharkin, C. Pfeiffer, S. Sepehri, J. F. Schneiderman and D. Winkler
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 33, 025007 (2020)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6668/ab6014

 

A 7-channel high-TcSQUID-based on-scalp MEG system
C. Pfeiffer*, S. Ruffieux*, L. Jönsson, M. Chukharkin, A. Kalaboukhov, M. Xie, D. Winkler and J. F. Schneiderman
IEEE T. Bio-Med. Eng. 67, 1483-1489 (2020)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8821327

 

Improved coupling of nanowire-based high-TcSQUID magnetometers - simulation and experiments
M. Xie, M. Chukharkin, S. Ruffieux, J. F. Schneiderman, A. Kalaboukhov, M. Arzeo, T. Bauch, F. Lombardi and D. Winkler
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 30, 115014 (2017)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6668/aa8e14

 

Properties of grooved Dayem bridge based YBa2Cu3O7superconducting quantum interference devices and magnetometers
E. Trabaldo, S. Ruffieux, E. Andersson, R. Arpaia, D. Montemurro, J. Schneiderman, A.Kalaboukhov, D. Winkler, F. Lombardi, and T. Bauch
Appl. Phys. Lett 116, 132601 (2020)

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0001805

 

Magnetic field sensing with the kinetic inductance of a high-Tcsuperconductor
V.Vesterinen, S. Ruffieux, A. Kalaboukhov, H. Sipola, M. Kiviranta, D. Winkler, J. F. Schneiderman and J. Hassel
AIP Adv. 9, 045217 (2019)

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5080798