This $400,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research and development by Northeastern University in Boston, MA to advance cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits and superconducting chip technology for scaling quantum computing systems.
The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant include:
Developing energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic CMOS chips for qubit control pulse generation at 4 Kelvin, eliminating the need for room-temperature electronics.
Designing on-chip, superconducting circulators to replace bulky ferrite-based components in dilution refrigerators, enabling significant size and cost reductions.
Integrating the cryogenic CMOS circuits and superconducting circulators with superconducting qubits to demonstrate a fully integrated closed-loop quantum computing system.
This research is expected to advance scalable quantum computing capabilities by addressing key hardware infrastructure limitations. The project also includes educational and workforce development initiatives to foster interdisciplinary expertise in quantum computing.