Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Atom-defined quantum devices
Agreement Number:
987923
Agreement Value:
$836,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 9, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
The ability to precisely place single atoms on a silicon surface to attain exacting engineered properties allows for new and improved standards and sensors. At the University of Alberta and the NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre the Project team have developed atom crafting techniques that are world leading. While other approaches allow only cryogenically stabilized structures to be made, the Project team makes robust, electrically useful devices that stand up to the practical requirements of real-world deployment. The Project will include the deployment of the previously developed techniques to produce testable, exactingly reproducible and practically useable quantum metrology devices. The Project team will make an electrical current standard and a standard thermometer. Both devices allow reference measurements to be made that are - always reliable, calibration-free measurements. These new, useful and marketable devices are extensions of the atom-defined single electron transistor (SET) technology. The SETs the Project team have previously developed are uniquely immune to stray charge effects that plague other SETs and moreover any number of identical SETs with practically no variance of properties can be made allowing for practical manufacture and deployment.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Edmonton, Alberta, CA T5J 4P6
Reference Number:
172-2021-2022-Q4-987923
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
108102831
Recipient Type:
Academia
Recipient's Legal Name:
The Governors of the University of Alberta
Federal Riding Name:
Edmonton Centre
Federal Riding Number:
48014
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Program Purpose:
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
NAICS Code:
541710