New Tantalum Process Could Ease Manufacturing of Superconducting Quantum Chips
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — To commercialize quantum computing, manufacturers need high-quality superconducting materials for microchips, but they also require a reliable, sustainable nanofabrication process. Tantalum is a corrosion-resistant metal that meets the first criteria but not the second. That’s because it has to be deposited on a substrate at temperatures that typically exceed 400 […]
Tantalum, Silicon, and a Cross-Disciplinary Bet that Paid Off
A partnership spanning chemistry, engineering, and quantum device design has yielded a millisecond-coherent transmon, proving that smarter materials may hold the key to the next quantum leap Insider Brief Quantum computing emerged with a promise of mythic proportions: machines capable of solving, in seconds, problems that would take today’s supercomputers millennia to compute. The power […]