Tiny Materials Lead to a Big Advance in Quantum Computing

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
January 27, 2022

Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices. MIT researchers used a 2D material hexagonal boron nitride to build much smaller capacitors for superconducting qubits, enabling them to shrink the footprint of a qubit by two orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.

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MIT Engineers Design Structures that Compute with Heat

Adam Zewe | MIT News

By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing.

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