Credit: Galan Moody
Overview
Innovations at the nanoscale can create enormous opportunities for the improved storage and transmission of information. Traditionally, we have used photons to transmit information at varying wavelengths and electrons to transmit information through the transport of their electronic charge. Nanophotonic and nanoelectronic technologies promise not only more compact and rapid information processing, but also dramatically new means of accessing and controlling photons and charge. Through the NSF Quantum Foundry, CNSI researchers are pioneering new materials and interfaces capable of hosting the coherent quantum states needed to power the coming age of quantum-based electronics to make possible new paradigms of computation and discovery.
