The Need

While quantum sensing and communications offer unparalleled precision and security, existing hardware remains too physically cumbersome and rigid for seamless adoption into existing platforms. To unlock the full potential of these technologies, industries require a more modular, scalable hardware that has the flexibility to interface directly with classical infrastructures through both optical and electrical pathways. Bridging this gap is the essential next step in integrating quantum sensitivity widely throughout real world industries.

The Technology

Our technology introduces a pioneering solid-state spin and defect-based quantum sensor. The sensor consists of stacking ultrathin, 2D sheets of Van der Waal materials, such as graphene or hexagonal boron nitride, with defects that, like NV diamond, can sense the nearby environment even at room temperature. However, unlike NV diamond, our sensor’s quantum readouts can be optical or electronic, making it highly adaptable with other systems. It can also achieve much closer proximity (nm or µm) to target event, increasing the sensitivity of the sensor in analyzing phenomena like chemical reactions or cellular events.

Benefits/Advantages

• Enhanced Scalability: Stacking of 2-D Van der Waal materials layer by layer makes fabrication highly scalable and easy to integrate into different types of technologies.
• Nanoscale Proximity to Target Events: the quantum sensor can be placed within nanometers of a target, unlocking sensing at the cellular and molecular scale.
• Electrical or Optical Readouts: Unlike NV Diamond quantum sensors, flexibility in the type of data readouts allows for easier integration into existing technology hardware.

Commercial Applications

• Quantum Biochemical and/or Chemical Sensing: proteomics, enzyme activity, metabolite detection as well as detecting reaction intermediates, tracking reaction kinetics, catalytic processes.
• Quantum Precision for Timing and Frequency Control: enables more reliable synchronization in 5G/6G and satellite systems used by communication networks.
• Qunatum Communications; Enables detection of extremely weak electrical and microwave signals, improving long-distance, low-power or space-based communications.
• Quantum Navigation: no more reliance on GPS – quantum technologies unlock navigation in GPS-denied environments.