Mazin Lab at UCSB

The blue fridge rises again in this new video!

Building a New Top Secret Quantum Experiment 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 ...

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

Plundering a Nobel Prize Winner's Mystery Quantum Experiment 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...

New video on making a high power laser pulser:

Build a Nanosecond Laser Blaster for Under $100 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...

New MEC Prime upgrade video!

We Turned A Thermonuclear Bomb Into A Refrigerator 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...

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

Superconducting Pasta Maker 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 ...

The MEC Prime upgrade continues!

Shields UP! 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...

Watch us take on Big Diplexer in this video!

Revenge on Diplexers.com is a Dish Best Served COLD 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...

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

Trying to Fix a Dead Programmable RF Step Attenuator (Weinschel 8311) 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...

New video on starting the cryostat upgrades of MEC Prime!

MEC Prime Upgrade: Design, CNC Machining, and Construction of Low Thermal Conductivity Support Legs 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...

New video showing us taking MEC apart!

Disassembling the Coolest Exoplanet Camera in the World 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...

Second video on our big Hawaii trip!

Exoplanet Camera Comes Home from Hawaii: Day 2 We were recently funded by the National Science Foundation to upgrade a powerful instrument for detecting and characterizing exoplanets called MEC, the MKID ...

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.

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