Designing qubit circuits

It's hard work being the only postdoc in the village. One day I'm fixing wiring on the fridge, the next I'm analysing the effect of spin-flip scattering on my superconductor-ferromagnet data. Today I'm being the local RSFQ/SQUID layout afficionado.I'm designing some qubit circuits. Process design rules are a pain, there are about 10 layers in a Standard Niobium process and you have to get all the holes and structures spaced correctly (do I hear a tiny violin?). Luckily I have several helpful guides such as Ustinov's group website, which contains information (mostly in the doctoral theses) on their structures which were fabricated by VTT and HYPRES.Here are some pictures of what I'm doing:They are very preliminary designs at the moment, I haven't even got all the layers in there yet.I also have to calculate the mutual inductances between the structures using finite element techniques, which lets you know how well your qubit couples to your readout circuitry (In this case, DC SQUIDs and microwave resonators, depending on the design). It's quite fun to do circuit layout though. These circuits will probably be realised at the European FLUXONICS foundry at IPHT.