Sam Condon
Graduate Student

Sam received his BS in electrical and computer engineering from Western Washington University in 2021 after which he spent 3 years working as an engineer at the California Institute of Technology. There, he worked on the optical design and calibration of NASA's upcoming medium class astrophysics explorer telescope, SPHEREx. After SPHEREx, he became interested in superconductivity in the context of detectors for astrophysics, spending further time at Caltech working on superconducting microwave kinetic inductance detectors.As a rotation student in the Bøttcher lab, Sam has begun early cavity designs to couple microwave photons to the collective modes of uranium based superconductors. To this end, Sam is testing and demonstrating these cavities with the well understood spin-wave modes of yttrium iron garnet (YIG), a ferromagnetic material commonly used in early cavity magnonics experiments.