Description du projet
Des technologies de semi-conducteurs pour les futurs dispositifs quantiques
Les dispositifs quantiques avancés reposant toujours plus sur les technologies des semi-conducteurs, de nombreuses innovations émergent et proposent de nouvelles applications. Le projet PIEDMONS, financé par l’UE, entend étudier la conception et la fabrication des éléments fondamentaux de futurs dispositifs quantiques abordables. Les chercheurs développeront et testeront plus particulièrement des pièges à ions basés sur la technologie de fabrication MEMS. L’architecture micro-structurée en 3D des pièges à ions permettra un confinement des ions dix fois plus important que les pièges standard et permettra ainsi un fonctionnement fiable à température ambiante. Enfin, PIEDMONS étudiera les potentielles architectures sûres et sécurisées sur le marché des appareils nomades grand public, en mettant l’accent sur le secteur de la mobilité.
Objectif
The PIEDMONS project addresses breakthrough innovations for the design and manufacturing of affordable new generation quantum devices:
• The development and the testing of a portable ion-trap reproducible in large scale, and based on low-cost semiconductor MEMS technologies.
• The development and testing of a novel quantum secured partioned Electric Electronic architecture exploitatable in a multitude of sectors
With INFINEON Technologies, world leader in MEMS semiconductors, and two leading edge University in the field of Quantum computing (University of Innsbruck and ETH Zurich) the PIEDMONS project aims to the ambitious and long-term, but at the same way concrete and plausible goal of designing, implementing, experimenting and finding first applications for the basic building blocks of future quantum computers. Thanks to the experience of a high-tech SME (IFEVS) well known in the European Research Arena, it aims to the challenging objective of implementing first applications of these technologies in the huge market of consumer nomadic devices safe and secure, firstly in the mobility sector.
The expected results of the project will establish the baseline of new scientific and technological research and future uses, which cannot yet be anticipated, but for sure will strengthen the European leadership in a sector that is expected to be strategical over the forthcoming decades. Demonstration of the feasibility of GPS-free positioning, portable atomic clocks, quantum cryptography and security in the short distance are the very challenging objectives in which the PIEDMONS project will measure and validate its performances. The project will involve a large audience and diverse actors in the scientific community and in the stakeholders through ad-hoc dissemination actions, while at the same time generating and preserving strategic Intellectual Property.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibers
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarequantum computers
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsfibre optics
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