Award Abstract #0079842
MRI: Acquisition of Equipment for Quantum Information Processing

NSF Org:	CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	September 21, 2000
Latest Amendment Date:	September 21, 2000
Award Number:	0079842
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Rita V. Rodriguez CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	September 15, 2000
Expires:	August 31, 2004 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$482460
Investigator(s):	Eli Yablonovitch eliy@eecs.berkeley.edu (Principal Investigator) Kang Wang (Co-Principal Investigator) Vwani Roychowdhury (Co-Principal Investigator) Hong-Wen Jiang (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of California-Los Angeles 11000 Kinross Avenue LOS ANGELES, CA 90095 310/794-0102
NSF Program(s):	CISE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE, MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC, 9218, 1189
Program Element Code(s):	2885, 1189

ABSTRACT

EIA-0079842

Yablonovitch, Eli

University of California Los Angeles

MRI: Acquisition of Equipment for Quantum Information Processing

The focus of this proposal is acquisition of a Hitachi S-4700-II field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) with resolution (secondary emission mode) of 1.5nm at 15kV. The proposed equipment will help make an optical communications receiver and transmitter technology that can transfer quantum coherence and entanglement from photons, to spins in a semiconductor and back to photons again. Since the photo-electron spin is reasonable long-lived, the quantum information can be stored and act as quantum memory. If this technology is successful, it can become the front end for more complex semiconductor based quantum processors in the future, perhaps even a full-fledged quantum computer.

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