Sandia Corporation

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC

James Ewers Levy

Kenneth Wojciechowski

Malcolm Carroll

David P Adams

Randolph R Kay

Richard Karl Harrison

Liam D Claus

Anand Ganti

Ezra Bussmann

David V Campbell

Thomas M Gurrieri

Rajib Rahman

Stephen M Carr

Wayne Witzel

Noah Tobias Jacobson

Michael L Holmes

Andrew J Landahl

Michael Lilly

Khoi Thi Nguyen

Nathaniel Bishop

William Charles Rice

Douglas R Nichols

Erik Nielsen

Robin J Blume-Kohout

Robert Lovejoy

William S Cavanaugh

Matthew Jordan

Daniel J Dorsey

A neutron detector including a plurality of layers of converter material and a plurality of layers of detector material. Each layer of converter material can be immediately adjacent to at least one layer of detector material and each layer of detector material can be immediately adjacent to at least one layer of converter material. The neutron detector may further include a read out integrated circuit (ROIC) that is electrically coupled to the plurality of layers of detector material. A value output by the ROIC may be indicative of a neutron interacting with a layer of converter material from amongst the plurality of layers of converter material.

Mutli-layered neutron detector

A quantum computing device that includes a plurality of semiconductor adiabatic qubits is described herein. The qubits are programmed with local biases and coupling terms between qubits that represent a problem of interest. The qubits are initialized by way of a tuneable parameter, a local tunnel coupling within each qubit, such that the qubits remain in a ground energy state, and that initial state is represented by the qubits being in a superposition of |0&#x3e; and |1&#x3e; states. The parameter is altered over time adiabatically or such that relaxation mechanisms maintain a large fraction of ground state occupation through decreasing the tunnel coupling barrier within each qubit with the appropriate schedule. The final state when tunnel coupling is effectively zero represents the solution state to the problem represented in the |0&#x3e; and |1&#x3e; basis, which can be accurately read at each qubit location.

Semiconductor adiabatic qubits

An electronic device includes a memory configured to receive data representing light intensity values from pixels in a focal plane array and a processor that analyzes the received data to determine which light values correspond to triggered pixels, where the triggered pixels are those pixels that meet a predefined set of criteria, and determines, for each triggered pixel, a set of neighbor pixels for which light intensity values are to be stored. The electronic device also includes a buffer that temporarily stores light intensity values for at least one previously processed row of pixels, so that when a triggered pixel is identified in a current row, light intensity values for the neighbor pixels in the previously processed row and for the triggered pixel are persistently stored, as well as a data transmitter that transmits the persistently stored light intensity values for the triggered and neighbor pixels to a data receiver.

Smart trigger logic for focal plane arrays

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James Ewers Levy