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Silicon carbide is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with an emerging CMOS technology platform and it is widely deployed in high power and harsh environment electronics. This material is also attracting interest for quantum technologies through…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Megan Powell , Euan Parry , Conor McGeough , Alexander Zotov , Alessandro Rossi

Superconducting quantum computers require microwave control lines running from room temperature to the mixing chamber of a dilution refrigerator. Adding more lines without preliminary thermal modeling to make predictions risks overwhelming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Naomi Raicu , Tom Hogan , Xian Wu , Mehrnoosh Vahidpour , David Snow , Matthew Hollister , Mark Field

We present a novel two-step approach for the selective area growth (SAG) of GaAs nanowires (NWs) by molecular beam epitaxy which has enabled a detailed exploration of the NW diameter evolution. In the first step, the growth parameters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Hanno Küpers , Ryan B. Lewis , Abbes Tahraoui , Mathias Matalla , Olaf Krüger , Faebian Bastiman , Henning Riechert , Lutz Geelhaar

Unlocking the full potential of nanocrystals in electronic devices requires scalable and deterministic manufacturing techniques. A platform offering promising alternative paths to scalable production is microtomy, the technique of cutting…

Topological qubits based on Majorana fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires (NWs) are a promising medium for…

Large-scale cryogenic quantum systems are constrained by an input-output bottleneck between room-temperature electronics and millikelvin stages, particularly in superconducting qubit platforms. This bottleneck is most acute for output…

Poly(ethylene imine) functionalized carbon nanotube thin films, prepared using the vacuum filtration method, were decorated with Au nanoparticles by in situ reduction of HAuCl4 under mild conditions. These Au nanoparticles were subsequently…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-16 P. K. Mohseni , G. Lawson , C. Couteau , G. Weihs , A. Adronov , R. R. LaPierre

Superconducting quantum computers have emerged as a leading platform for next-generation computing, offering exceptional scalability and unprecedented computational speeds. However, scaling these systems to millions of qubits for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yong-Bok Lee , Connor Devitt , Xu Zhu , Nicholas Yost , Yabei Gu , Sunil A. Bhave

Bottom up nanowires are attractive for realizing semiconductor devices with extreme heterostructures because strain relaxation through the nanowire sidewalls allows the combination of highly lattice mismatched materials without creating…

Quantum dots tuned to atomic resonances represent an emerging field of hybrid quantum systems where the advantages of quantum dots and natural atoms can be combined. Embedding quantum dots in nanowires boosts these systems with a set of…

Solid-state qubits integrated on semiconductor substrates currently require at least one wire from every qubit to the control electronics, leading to a so-called wiring bottleneck for scaling. Demultiplexing via on-chip circuitry offers an…

Superconducting circuits are a strong contender for realizing quantum computing systems, and are also successfully used to study quantum optics and hybrid quantum systems. However, their cryogenic operation temperatures and the current lack…

Embedding quantum dots (QDs) on nanowire (NW) sidewalls allows the integration of multi-layers of QDs into the active region of radial p-i-n junctions to greatly enhance light emission/absorption. However, the surface curvature makes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Yunyan Zhang , H. Aruni Fonseka , Hui Yang , Xuezhe Yu , Pamela Jurczak , Suguo Huo , Ana M. Sanchez , Huiyun Liu

We introduce selective area grown hybrid InAs/Al nanowires based on molecular beam epitaxy, allowing arbitrary semiconductor-superconductor networks containing loops and branches. Transport reveals a hard induced gap and unpoisoned…

This letter reports on the growth, structure and luminescent properties of individual multiple quantum well (MQW) AlGaAs nanowires (NWs). The composition modulations (MQWs) are obtained by alternating the elemental flux of Al and Ga during…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-07 C. Chen , N. Braidy , C. Couteau , C. Fradin , G. Weihs , R. LaPierre

Continued advances in quantum technologies rely on producing nanometer-scale wires. Although several state-of-the-art nanolithographic technologies and bottom-up synthesis processes have been used to engineer such wires, critical challenges…

InN nanowires were grown on Si<111> and Si<100> substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy using a thin AlN buffer layer at temperatures compatible with the thermal budget limitation imposed by Back-End-Of-Line processing.…

In this paper, we present a reconfigurable multiplex (MUX) setup that increases the throughput of electrical characterisation at cryogenic temperature. The setup separates the MUX circuitry from quantum device under test (qDUT), allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Xinya Bian , Hannah J Joyce , Charles G Smith , Michael J Kelly , G Andrew D Briggs , Jan A Mol

Semiconductor nanowire (NW) lasers are a promising technology for the realisation of coherent optical sources with extremely small footprint. To fully realize their potential as building blocks in on-chip photonic systems, scalable methods…

Cryogenic semiconductor device models are essential in designing control systems for quantum devices and in benchmarking the benefits of cryogenic cooling for high-performance computing. In particular, the saturation of subthreshold swing…