APIs

Capturing Transients with the Zurich Instruments Toolkit

07.04.2021

In many applications, Zurich Instruments' lock-in amplifiers and impedance analyzers are integrated into a larger measurement system. Relying on an application programming interface (API) to obtain necessary information from the instruments is of great importance in such cases...

Automating IQ Mixer Calibration on the HDIQ

03.02.2021

As a crucial step in the bring-up of superconducting experiments, IQ mixer calibration normally requires multiple instruments from different parties and manual cabling work. This blog post describes how to use the Zurich Instruments HDIQ, HDAWG and UHFQA (or other UHF instruments) to automate IQ mixer calibration and: Simplify the...

Multiplexed Impedance Measurements

17.06.2020

Introduction Having more impedance measurement channels is often desirable in many applications. For instance, in electrical impedance tomography (EIT), it is common to have many channels to achieve enough spatial resolution (144 electrodes on the thorax) [1]. Naturally, this can be done with multiple instruments working together. When synchronization is...

Controlling Your Measurements With QCoDeS and Labber

24.05.2020

With this blog post, we introduce a new high-level Python programming interface for our instruments: the Zurich Instruments Toolkit. It is the basis of our new support for QCoDeS and Labber measurement frameworks. A modern experiment can be a complex beast. Researchers put a great amount of time and care...

Reducing the Noise Floor and Improving the SNR with Cross-Correlation Techniques

19.05.2020

Ultra-sensitive voltage measurements are a crucial requirement for applications such as quantum device characterization [1]. Weak signals become easily obscured by thermal noise, especially that coming from the measurement apparatus...

Working Remotely with Zurich Instruments' LabOne

20.03.2020

Not only in the wake of COVID-19, but also because of the growing automation of experimental setups, remote access of instrumentation is an increasing need and Zurich Instruments' devices are designed to provide just that. With no physical adjusting knobs, the instruments are fully controlled by our LabOne software or...