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Mazin Lab at UCSB

Mazin Lab, led by Professor Ben Mazin at UC Santa Barbara, is focused on using Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) for Astronomy.

11/18/2025

The blue fridge rises again in this new video!

We got our blue dilution fridge working, so now its time to install the mystery quantum experiment that we've been working on for a year. Can you guess what ...

10/13/2025

Two celebrate our new Nobel Prize winners, we've re-edited a video of me plundering some of their experiments!

Our colleague Professor John Martinis just Won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, so it seems like a good time to revisit our dumpster dive into his stuff!John...

09/22/2025

New video on making a high power laser pulser:

Ever wanted to build a high power laser diode driver that can make bright nanosecond laser pulses on the cheap? You've come to the right place. This video wa...

07/04/2025

New MEC Prime upgrade video!

MEC Prime will use a new generation of quantum limited parametric amplifiers, but our cryostat doesn't have enough cooling power to get these amps to the 300...

05/14/2025

Fun new video on making a little rolling mill to crimp our FLAX cables.

In this video I design and build a specialized rolling mill, essentially a pasta maker, to put semi-circular grooves into superconducting NbTi foil. This is ...

04/04/2025

The MEC Prime upgrade continues!

As part of the MEC Prime upgrade we are adding about 12" to the length of the MEC cryostat. This requires new radiation shields, which we unbox and test in t...

02/27/2025

Watch us take on Big Diplexer in this video!

After being no bid by diplexers.com, we decided we needed to design and build our own custom triplexer. A triplexer is a microwave circuit that takes an inpu...

02/10/2025

Check out our latest video where I try to save $10000 by fixing a broken piece of lab equipment!

Ever wondered what makes a Aeroflex Weinschel 8311 (or 8310) Programmable Step Attenuator click (literally)? Me neither, but sometimes you need to get your h...

01/23/2025

New video on starting the cryostat upgrades of MEC Prime!

It's time to start the mechanical upgrade of the MEC cryostat! In this video I show the cryostat upgrades we have planned, and then bring you through my work...

10/25/2024

New video showing us taking MEC apart!

In this video we open up the MEC Cryostat after five years on the summit of Mauna Kea to check for shipping damage and get ready for the MEC Prime upgrade.Ma...

09/20/2024

Second video on our big Hawaii trip!

We were recently funded by the National Science Foundation to upgrade a powerful instrument for detecting and characterizing exoplanets called MEC, the MKID ...

09/14/2024

Our new video premieres at 10 am pacific (1 hour from now) - join the watch party! This one is fun as we go to Hawaii to pack up our instrument.

We were recently funded by the National Science Foundation to upgrade a powerful instrument for detecting and characterizing exoplanets called MEC, the MKID ...

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