The Need

Innovations in the field of quantum information technology are paramount to addressing the escalating demand for advanced sensitive sensor applications. As these new technologies are poised to disrupt traditional sensing methodologies, there arises an urgent need for breakthroughs that allow for effective scale-up and easier implementation of quantum technologies. This demand is fueled by diverse sectors such as healthcare, materials science, and national security, all seeking to harness the unparalleled power of quantum information for solving complex problems and unlocking new insights.

The Technology

Our technology introduces a pioneering solid-state spin and defect-based quantum sensor. The sensor consists of stacked ultrathin sheets of graphene or hexagonal boron nitride sheets, with defects that, like NV diamond, can sense the nearby environment even at room temperature. However, unlike NV diamond this sensor can be placed in near proximity (nm or µm) of the target event, increasing the sensitivity of the sensor, and readouts can be optical or electronic, making this sensor highly adaptable with other systems.

Benefits/Advantages

• Nanoscale spectroscopy: the near zero-dimensional physical attributes of this tunnel junction allows for this quantum sensor to be placed within nanometers of a target, unlocking sensing at the cellular and molecular scale.
• Enhanced Scalability: Stacking of insulating, conducting and impurity materials layer by layer makes fabrication highly scalable and easy to integrate into different types of technologies.
• Electrical Readouts: This sensor can provides electrical readouts, allowing for integration into technologies that are incompatible or difficult to operate with the more standard optical readouts of competing solid-state qubits.
• Room temp operable: Cryogenic temperatures are not necessary for this solid-state

Commercial Applications

• Quantum Biochemical Sensing: proteomics, enzyme activity, metabolite detection
• Quantum Chemical sensing: detecting reaction intermediates, tracking reaction kinetics, catalytic processes
• Quantum transduction: Paving the way for novel technologies that convert quantum information between different physical modalities, essential for quantum communication networks.