Material Synthesis
Driven by world-class departments of
Materials Science and Engineering and
Chemistry (both consistently ranked top 5 in the United States), researchers at Northwestern expand the available materials for quantum applications through new synthesis. This includes (1) synthesis, fabrication, and processing of low-dimensional materials, (2) exploratory solid-state synthesis methods for intergrowth 2D systems and metal oxides, and (3) synthesis of atomically precise qubits, gates, and arrays. Recent studies include low-dimensional van der Waals materials and heterostructures that possess a wide range of electronic properties as semiconductors, insulators, metals, and superconductors applicable to quantum applications. Another example is the bottom-up synthesis of qubit pairs in donor-acceptor systems, which have displayed coherent spin motion for microseconds at room temperature, that could provide a basis for new quantum computing and information processing strategies based on electron spins.
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