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

Teamwork by Hong and Schubert leads investigation of remote surface optical phonon scattering in ferroelectric oxide-gated graphene

The October 2022 edition of the Journal of Applied Physics features research from a collaboration led by EQUATE physicist Xia Hong and engineer Mathias Schubert. Their study reveals the room temperature mobility limit in graphene imposed by the ferroelectric oxide gate, providing important material information for designing high-performance ferroelectric/graphene transistors for high frequency, low power nanoelectronic applications. Learn more at https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0106939.

Cover of the October 2022 edition of the Journal of Applied Physics accompanied by photos of Xia Hong and Mathias Schubert.

NSF Funds NV Quantum Sensing Capabilities for NCMN Attocube System

Top portion of the flyer announcing NCMN's $500,000 award from NSF.

New device gets scientists closer to quantum materials breakthrough

Schubert’s idea grows into discovery of new material class

Graphic representation showing how hyperbolic shear polaritons are coupled with light-matter waves.

Nebraska, Buffalo researchers create first magneto-electric transistor

A nanoscale rendering of two materials, graphene (gray) and chromium oxide (blue), that collectively allowed researchers from Nebraska and Buffalo to fabricate a new type of transistor.

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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.