EQUATE: Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies

Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies EQUATE

NSF Award Announcement

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A banner placed outside Jorgensen Hall with a photo of the EQUATE leaders that reads: Congrats to Nebraska EPSCoR-EQUATE on a $20M NSF Award.

EQUATE’s main research goal is to bring Nebraska to the forefront of scientific discoveries and innovation in the design, synthesis, growth, and use of materials and hybrid systems with large-scale quantum properties for applications in sensing, metrology, communication, and information processing.

This project focuses on research and workforce development to advance knowledge on topics related to quantum materials, technologies, and computation. Quantum materials are a new class of materials that exhibit quantum phenomena at macroscopic length scales and are expected to advance the technological landscape through the advent of quantum technologies. These new technologies will revolutionize fields such as information technology, medical technology, and cryptography, with an impact on security areas such as defense and banking.

EQUATE consolidates the quantum science and technology expertise of 20 faculty researchers across four Nebraska research institutions, establishing collaboration and feedback between theory and experiment to guide discoveries and expedite the findings of new emergent quantum materials and phenomena.

EQUATE News

EQUATE researchers ranked amongst most influential

The Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List is a comprehensive analysis of all peer-reviewed papers across scientific disciplines. It measures the significance of the research, including how often each study is cited in the work of other scientists. The publication is the definitive list of research that has made the most significant impact across each field of study. The following EQUATE researchers made the list: Christian Binek, Physics and Astronomy; Peter Dowben, Physics and Astronomy; Xia Hong, Physics and Astronomy; Rebecca Lai, Chemistry; Mathias Schubert, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Alexander Sinitskii, Chemistry; Evgeny Tsymbal, Physics and Astronomy.

The six EQUATE researchers ranked among the world's top. Photos of Christian Binek, Peter Dowben, Xia Hong, Rebecca Lai, Mathias Schubert, Alexander Sinitskii, and Evgeny Tsymbal.

Nebraska breakthrough opens door to next-gen electronics

Adam Erickson from Abdelghani Laraoui’s lab in the Engineering Research Center aligns the nitrogen vacancy scanning probe microscope used for the study.

EQUATE team member gains funding to grow minority opportunities in quantum sensing

In his lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, Abdelghani Laraoui works on improving scientific materials and processes for quantum sensing applications.

L-shaped metamaterials can control light direction and identify, sort molecules

Researchers fabricated an optical element that uses a forest of tiny, antenna-like nanorods, seen here, that together create a metamaterial able to control the spin of light. The metamaterial nanorods appear to be shaped like the letter “L” when seen at the nanoscale.

Nebraska-developed quantum sensing technique could facilitate advances in multiple fields

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OIA-2044049. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.