Superconducting electronics is an interdisciplinary research area of superconducting physics, material science and electronic technologies. The major scope of superconducting electronics includes superconducting passive devices, sensors, detectors, digital electronics and quantum bit circuits. With superior performances, superconducting devices and circuits have found indispensable roles in ultra-sensitive detecting, high precision measurements, quantum information processing, quantum metrology and many frontier research areas.

Founded in 2015, CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics (CENSE) focuses on the applied fundamental research of superconducting electronics was mainly supported by Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT). Oriented to the national strategic needs and the frontier of superconducting electronics, the mission of CENSE is to carry out advanced research on the quantum material science, superconducting sensors/detectors and applications, as well as superconducting integrated circuits and computing technology. Undertaking several major research programs, CENSE is committed to building an interactive research environment for “material-device-application” and constructing a multidiscipline platform for both scientific achievement and talent development. The goal of CENSE is to build a new research center on superconducting electronics in China and to develop superconducting devices and circuits for superconducting electronics applications. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the overview of CENCE, and present our resent research progress and results on developing superconducting SQUID and nano-SQUID sensors, SNSPD detectors, and superconducting integrated circuits based on Nb and NbN technology.