Mason J. Gray

Condensed matter · Scientific Infrastructure · Home Lab

Physicist turned quantum infrastructure manager. I build things at the atomic scale at work and at the garage scale at home.

What I Do

Physics Research

My Ph.D. work focused on 2D materials, topological superconductivity, and van der Waals heterostructures. I studied helical hinge modes in Fe-based superconductors, cheaper ways to make heterostructures, and graphene biosensing devices.

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Quantum Infrastructure

I manage facilities, safety, IT, security, inventory, and logistics at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Keeping the lights on, the network up, and the supplies stocked so the scientists can focus on building fault-tolerant quantum computers.

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Home Lab & Making

Keyboard builds, woodworking, self-hosting, and whatever else I'm tinkering with in the garage. I learn by doing and make plenty of mistakes along the way.

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Now

Building a thermal simulator to better understand my smoker
Cleaning out my garage to actually make a working space out there
Reading Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Slowly buiding out masonjgray.com, sub-domains included.

Selected Publications

Detection of a Multi-Disease Biomarker in Saliva with Graphene Field Effect Transistors
Narendra Kumar, Mason Gray, Juan C. Ortiz-Marquez, Andrew Weber, Cameron R. Desmond, Avni Argun, Tim van Opijnen, Kenneth S. Burch
Medical Devices and Sensors, 2020
A Cleanroom in a Glovebox
Mason J. Gray, Narendra Kumar, Ryan O'Connor, Marcel Hoek, Erin Sheridan, Meaghan C. Doyle, Marisa L. Romanelli, Gavin B. Osterhoudt, Yiping Wang, Vincent Plisson, Shiming Lei, Ruidan Zhong, Bryan Rachmilowitz, He Zhao, Hikari Kitadai, Steven Shepard, Leslie M. Schoop, G. D. Gu, Ilija Zeljkovic, Xi Ling, Kenneth S. Burch
Review of Scientific Instruments, 2020
Evidence for Helical Hinge Zero Modes in an Fe-Based Superconductor
Mason J. Gray, Josef Freudenstein, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Ryan O'Connor, Samuel Jenkins, Narendra Kumar, Marcel Hoek, Abigail Kopec, Soonsang Huh, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ruidan Zhong, Changyoung Kim, G. D. Gu, K. S. Burch
Nano Letters, 2019