Project Grant W911NF2210042

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the university researchers will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This innovative...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to Northeastern University for the "CAREER: CRYOGENIC-CMOS AND SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUITS FOR SCALABLE QUANTUM SYSTEMS" project. The objective is to develop energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic chips that enable scaling quantum systems to support thousands of qubits, which is a key limitation for realizing practical quantum computers. The research focuses on advancing...

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the grantee will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This integrated manufacturing approach...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $400,000 to Syracuse University to conduct research on understanding the physical mechanisms governing qubit transitions during the measurement process in superconducting quantum computers. The project aims to develop and experimentally verify methods for predicting these transitions in order to improve the performance and capabilities of modern quantum...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $510,414 to Northwestern University from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026. The funding supports research into developing analogs of topologically non-trivial crystals using superconducting hybrid devices, with the goal of studying signatures of non-trivial topology. Specifically, the award will fabricate devices mimicking higher dimensional crystal structures by placing superconductors in contact...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $305,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Quantum Formatics Corp. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The project aims to accelerate the discovery of novel superconducting materials using an AI-driven workflow. The goal is to develop high-performing, stable, and easily manufactured superconductors that can operate at higher temperatures than existing commercial materials. If...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) materials. The key objectives are to investigate 1) kinetic inductance and pairing symmetries in "moiré" superconductors, 2) quasiparticle dynamics in 2D superconductors, 3) quasiparticle blocking using tunable 2D...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $385,389 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to integrate nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers with on-chip magnetic nanodevices. The goal is to develop hybrid quantum spintronic platforms that can improve the scalability, tunability, and solid-state compatibility of NV centers for advancing quantum information science (QIS) innovations. The project will also include education, training,...