Highlighted Publications

Exhaustive list of McRae publications can be found here.

2025

Under review: A. Vallières, M. E. Russell, X. You, D.A. Garcia-Wetten, D.P. Goronzy, M.J. Walker, M.J. Bedzyk, M.C. Hersam, A. Romanenko, Y. Lu, A. Grassellino, J. Koch and C.R.H. McRae. Loss tangent fluctuations due to two-level systems in superconducting microwave resonators (2024).

2024

C.R.H. McRae, J. Ramirez, M. Acharya, J. Pitten, T. Lindström and D. Bennett. Superconducting qubit coherence metrics for device engineering. 2024 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM), Denver, CO, USA (2024).

C.G. Torres-Castanedo, D.P. Goronzy, T. Pham, A. McFadden, N. Materise, P. Masih Das, M. Cheng, D. Lebedev, S.M. Ribet, M.J. Walker, D.G. Wetten, C.J. Kopas, J. Marshall, E. Lachman, N. Zhelev, J.A. Sauls, J.Y. Mutus, V.P. Dravid, C.R.H. McRae, M.J. Bedzyk, M.C. Hersam. Formation and Microwave Losses of Hydrides in Superconducting Niobium Thin Films Resulting from Fluoride Chemical Processing. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2401365 (2024).

2023

S.G. Jones, N. Materise, K.W. Leung, J.C. Weber, B. Isakov, X. Chen, A. Gyenis, B. Jaeck, C.R.H. McRae. Grain size in low loss superconducting Ta thin films on c axis sapphire. Journal of Applied Physics 134, 144402 (2023).

Cardani, L., Colantoni, I., Cruciani, A., De Dominicis, F., D’Imperio, G., Laubenstein, M., Mariani, A., Pagnanini, L., Pirro, S., Tomei, C., Casali, N., Ferroni, F., Frolov, D., Gironi, L., Grassellino, A., Junker, M., Kopas, C., Lachman, E., McRae, C.R.H., Mutus, J., Nastasi, M., Pappas, D.P., Pilipenko, R., Sisti, M., Pettinacci, V., Romanenko, A., Van Zanten, D., Vignati, M., Withrow, J.D., Zhelev, N.Z. Disentangling the sources of ionizing radiation in superconducting qubits. The European Physical Journal C 83, 94 (2023).

2022

Cover article: Goswami, A., McFadden, A.P., Zhao, T., Inbar, H., Dong, J.T., Zhao, R., McRae, C.R.H., Simmonds, R.W., Palmstrom, C.J., Pappas, D.P. Towards merged-element transmons using silicon fins: the FinMET. Applied Physics Letters 121, 064001 (2022).

Kopas, C.J., Lachman, E., McRae, C.R.H., Mohan, Y., Mutus, J.Y., Nersisyan, A., Poudel, A. Simple coplanar waveguide resonator mask targeting metal-substrate interface. White paper (2022).

Lu, X., Goronzy, D.P., Torres-Castanedo, C.G., Masih Das, P., Kazemzadeh-Atoufi, M., McFadden, A., McRae, C.R.H., Voorhees, P.W., Dravid, V.P., Bedzyk, M.J., Hersam, M.C., Rondinelli, J.M. Stability, metallicity, and magnetism in niobium silicide nanofilms. Physical Review Materials 6, 064402 (2022).

2021

Featured article, invited Perspective: McRae, C.R.H., Stiehl, G., Wang, H., Lin, S.-X., Caldwell, S.A., Pappas, D.P., Mutus, J., Combes, J. Perspective: Reproducible Coherence Characterization of Superconducting Quantum Devices. Applied Physics Letters 119, 100501 (2021).

Wang, H., Singh, S., McRae, C.R.H., Bardin, J.C., Lin, S.-X., Messaoudi, N., Castelli, A.R., Rosen, Y.J., Holland, E.T., Pappas, D.P., Mutus, J.Y. Cryogenic single-port calibration for superconducting microwave resonator measurements. Quantum Science and Technology 6, 035015 (2021).

McRae, C.R.H., McFadden, A., Zhao, R., Wang, H., Long, J. L., Zhao, T., Park, S., Bal, M. Palmstrom, C.J., Pappas, D.P. Cryogenic microwave loss in epitaxial Al/GaAs/Al trilayers for superconducting circuits. Journal of Applied Physics 129, 025109 (2021).

2020

Cover article, invited review: McRae, C.R.H., Wang, H., Gao, J.S., Vissers, M.R., Brecht, T., Dunsworth, A., Pappas, D.P., Mutus, J. Materials loss measurements using superconducting microwave resonators. Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 091101 (2020).

McRae, C.R.H., Lake, R.E., Long, J.L., Bal, M., Wu, X., Jugdersuren, B., Metcalf, T.H., Liu, X., Pappas, D.P. Dielectric loss extraction for superconducting microwave resonators. Applied Physics Letters 116, 194003 (2020).

Zhao, R., Park, S., Zhao, T., Bal, M., McRae, C.R.H., Long, J.L., Pappas, D.P. Merged-element transmon. Physical Review Applied 14, 064006 (2020).