Oxford Instruments Superconductivity Joins Quantum Nano Effort
The overall aim of the collaboration is to provide the technological infrastructure for development of new kinds of nanotechnology and their commercial exploitation. In particular, this will provide the semiconductor industry with an alternative method of technology scaling to provide improvements in chip performance and cost.
The collaboration is headed by Professor Briggs of Oxford University and also includes Cambridge University, Hitachi Europe and the (CCLRC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. It is supported by a GBP2mn fund from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of the council's Basic Technology Programme. Oxford Instruments will provide the expertise in the manufacture of the cryogenic equipment needed for emerging quantum scale computing and associated nanotechnologies.
