ENMA613: Materials Science of Quantum Computing

Course Description:

This class adopts a materials and device centric approach to exploring quantum information science.  Topics will be selected to connect quantum mechanics and solid-state physics to the creation of quantum bits and the materials from which they are made.  This advanced interdisciplinary course targets advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students for an introduction to this field and the inseparable connection between quantum information devices and materials.

Class Topics

• Introduction to quantum information
• Fundamentals of quantum information devices
• Materials, designs, and limitations:
  • Ion traps qubits
  • Semiconductor donor qubits
  • Semiconductor quantum dot qubits
  • Superconductor quantum circuit qubits
  • Defect qubits
  • Topological cubits
  • Emerging qubit concepts

 

ENMA 689: Thin Film Technologies

Course Description:

This class explores advances in the synthesis and properties of thin films.  With focus on vacuum-based techniques used in various industrial applications; the materials science of nucleation mechanisms, epitaxial growth paradigms, defects, nanostructure, physical properties, and characterization techniques are covered.

Class Topics

• Thin-Film synthesis techniques:
  • Evaporation-based deposition
  • Plasmas and ion deposition
  • Chemical vapor deposition
• Thin film nucleation
• Epitaxy
• Film structure
• Thin film characterization techniques
• Diffusion, reactions and transformations
• Mechanical properties of thin films
• Spin coating thin films