The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University a $299,668 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a robust, scalable process for creating diamond nitrogen-vacancy center quantum bits. This Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research will support innovative research demonstrating a new approach using diamond growth techniques coupled with carbon nanotube electron beam irradiation to create the defects needed for quantum bit implementation. The goal is to establish a manufacturing process with better control over the energy required to create nitrogen-vacancy centers, enabling optimization of the trade-off between qubit creation and unintended defect production. The results of this 24-month project ending December 2024 aim to benefit quantum information technologies for security, communications, biomedical sensing and computing.
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