World's Purest Silicon

Members of the NAME grant, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne in Australia, have produced an enhanced, ultra-pure form of silicon that allows the construction of high-performance qubit devices – a fundamental component required to pave the way towards scalable quantum computers. This was made possible with the P-NAME tool.

Richard Curry said: “What we’ve been able to do is effectively create a critical ‘brick’ needed to construct a silicon-based quantum computer. It’s a crucial step to making a technology that has the potential to be transformative for humankind - feasible; a technology that could give us the capability to process data at such as scale, that we will be able to find solutions to complex issues such as addressing the impact of climate change and tackling healthcare challenges."

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