Sixty years ago, one material turned room-sized computers into chips. Quantum is waiting for its material. We found it in aluminum nitride.
Almost every quantum computer, clock, and network is controlled with lasers — dozens of precise wavelengths from the deep ultraviolet to the infrared. Miss the wavelength, and the qubit simply doesn't respond.
Those wavelengths come from benchtop lasers, hand-aligned mirrors, and free-space optics — racks of it, sometimes filling entire rooms. It works for a hundred qubits in a lab. It cannot scale.
Quantum has a hardware problem, and it isn't the qubits.
Silicon did this for electronics: everything on one chip, manufactured by the millions. But no established photonic chip platform meets every requirement quantum demands.
Silicon photonics is blind to the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths where many atoms and ions operate. Silicon nitride can't reach the deep UV wavelengths and can't convert light between colors. Lithium niobate suffers damage and loss at shorter wavelengths quantum requires.
Each solves part of the problem. None solves it on one chip.
The aluminum nitride materials system is the same semiconductor behind the white LED, and the only chip platform that covers the entire quantum spectrum.
Uviquity’s platform delivers:
– University of Michigan-led team, National Science Foundation Program
An NSF-backed team led by the University of Michigan is researching aluminum scandium nitride for quantum photonic chips, the material class at the core of our platform.
Their finding: it outperforms other quantum photonics materials while also being more versatile and easier to integrate with existing silicon-based microelectronics.
The material is proven. We are bringing it to market.
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Scaling trapped-ion, neutral-atom, and photonic processors.
Atomic timing and precision sensing, out of the lab and into the field.
Wavelength translation that connects quantum systems over ordinary fiber.
We're building chips to power the next era of photonics.