Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience

🤝Sweden and Singapore are strengthening their collaboration in quantum technology through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed today! Singapore’s National Quantum Office and 11 Swedish universities and research institutes have signed the MoU: Chalmers University of Technology WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Chalmers Next Labs, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Lund University, Luleå University of Technology, @the Quantum Sweden Innovation Platform QSIP – Quantum Sweden Innovation Platform at Chalmers Industriteknik, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University. The initiative has been established in collaboration with Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency. The signing was witnessed by the Swedish Minister for Energy, Business and Industry, Ebba Busch and Ms Jasmin Lau of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information and Ministry of Education, Singapore. The signatories that now are joining forces on quantum technology include: Camilla Johansson Keok Tong Ling Martin Nilsson Jacobi Monica Ringvik Annika Östman Wernerson Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn Erik Renström Anders Hagfeldt Annika Borgenstam Jan-Ingvar Jönsson Malin Frenning Hans Adolfsson Full press release in comments

🎉 No fewer than seven excellent research ideas from the Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience are featured on the Swedish Research Council’s list of projects in natural and engineering sciences that was made public today and that will receive funding over the next four years! Huge congratulations to the seven excellent researchers: Tahereh Abad: Optimal kontroll av en supraledande bosonisk kvantdator under påverkan från störningar Maria Asplund: Nanoteknologi för neuroteknologi - precision i ryggmärgsstimulering med mekaniskt adaptiva implantat Saroj Dash: Utveckling av kvantgeometri och symmetrier för hållbar elektronik Christian Fager: Radiosändare med frekvensdomänkombinering - En ny energieffektiv arkitektur för extremt bredbandiga trådlösa tillämpningar Magnus Karlsson: Modellering och monitorering av säkerhetshot mot fiberoptiska undervattenskablar Samuel Lara-Avila: Skalbara Chern insulators för kvantmetrologi Gregor Lasser: Nonlinear Power-Efficient Transmit Array Architecture – NECTAR Chalmers University of Technology WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council

🎆Folkteatern bjuder in till kvantkväll! Den 11 november gästar Giulia Ferrini #WACQT, Mårten Skogh Chalmers Next Labs och Julia Ravanis Chalmers Folkteatern Göteborg. Det bjuds på mikroföreläsningar och samtal om kvantdatorns möjligheter, mysterier och samhällspåverkan. Chalmers University of Technology COMMONS center for biomolecular assembly #kvantdator #kvantteknologi #IYQ2025 https://lnkd.in/d9a6P69R

🎉 We’re very proud to share that Jan Stake and Anton Frisk Kockum have received network grants from the Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council to lay the groundwork for future excellence clusters in groundbreaking areas of technology. With a focus on high-quality quantum computers and pioneering Terahertz–UV technology, they want to build strong, cross-disciplinary research networks that could pave the way for major scientific and technological breakthroughs. “We want to drive the development toward the next generation of quantum computers,” says Anton Frisk Kockum. “Through an excellence cluster, we can bring together researchers to jointly develop high-performance quantum computers based on several hardware platforms where Sweden already excels." “We want to develop the smart, integrated systems of the future for sensors and communication by combining photonics and electronics, from terahertz to ultraviolet,” says Jan Stake. “By using new materials and nanotechnology, we can create systems with higher performance and functionality to meet future needs in areas such as space, energy, health, defense, and security." Co-applicants in "High-quality Quantum Computers" are Göran Johansson and Giovanna Tancredi, both in leading roles within WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology at Chalmers, Markus Hennrich from Stockholm University, who leads the experimental work with trapped ions within WACQT, Stefano Markidis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, expert in computational methods and quantum algorithms; Kristin Persson from University of California, Berkeley, a leading materials scientist; and Morten Kjaergaard from the Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, who heads the experimental work on superconducting qubits within the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme. Among the co-applicants in “Pioneering THz–UV Technology” are Associate Professor Helena Rodilla at the Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Technology division at Chalmers University of Technology, and Åsa Haglund and Victor Torres Company, Professors at the Photonics division at Chalmers. The team also includes Vanya Darakchieva, Professor in Solid State Physics at Lund University, and Joachim Oberhammer in Micro- and Nanosystems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Full article in comments

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Today, our project coordinator Saroj Dash held an interesting talk at the 2D-TECH Centre Day at Chalmers tekniska högskola. Professor Dash explained to the audience how 2DSPIN-TECH has the ambition to significantly reduce energy consumption, promote sustainability, and improve the overall performance of computer memory 👏👏👏

🏆 🎉 ⭐ We're so happy to learn that this year's Nobel prize in Physics is awarded to the three quantum mechanics pioneers John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit". We are delighted that John Clark and John Martinis have served as guest researchers here at Chalmers University of Technology in recent years, maintaining a close relationship with the university, Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience and with Sweden’s leading quantum technology research initiative, WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. And watching our own Göran Johansson explain the significance of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics live on TV during the announcement made us all incredibly proud! Per Delsing Tord Claeson Floriana Lombardi The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Nobel Prize Yale University UC Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dAX8yPvp

🎓 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 / 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: work with quantum devices at Chalmers University of Technology! 📌 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Chiral Semiconductor material. 📖 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This project offers hands-on experience in the fabrication and transport characterization of Josephson junctions based on tellurium nanoribbons, a material recently proposed as a chiral Weyl semiconductor. The primary goal is to investigate proximity-induced superconductivity and its signatures in low-dimensional topological systems. The student will have access to state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities, learn advanced nanofabrication techniques for developing novel device architectures, and participate in low-temperature measurements using a dilution refrigerator. The work provides unique training at the intersection of nanotechnology and quantum physics, preparing the student for cutting-edge research in superconductivity and quantum technologies. 👇 Visit the link for the official release of the position: https://lnkd.in/dN6uP4jg 📩 Interested applicants can send their CV and a short statement of research interests to 𝐪𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝.𝐦𝐜𝟐@𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬.𝐬𝐞 by November 30, 2025. #QuantumDevices #LowTemperaturePhysics #ChiralMaterials #Nanofabrication #Superconductivity #Metrology #ChalmersUniversity #MasterThesis

⭐ Great news this morning: Atlantic Quantum is joining Google Quantum AI!⭐ Huge congratulations to co-founder Jonas Bylander, Professor of Quantum Technology at the Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience and WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology and the entire founding team Shereen Shermak Bharath Kannan Simon Gustavsson Tim Menke Youngkyu Sung and Leon Ding! Atlantic Quantum is the result of frontier research from Chalmers University of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and was founded with the mission to build a quantum computer that could economically scale to address real-world problems. “We now have the opportunity to accelerate progress alongside Google Quantum AI’s industry-leading superconducting qubit hardware,” says co-founder and CEO Bharath Kannan. “It has been fantastic to help bring the company from its founding to a successful exit and I'm very excited for the future with this excellent group of people. I would like to extend a special personal thank you to my team at Atlantic Quantum AB in Gothenburg, and to the great research environment at Chalmers University of Technology, WACQT - Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Chalmers Ventures, says Jonas Bylander in a LinkedIn post last night as the news broke. Read the official statement by Google here:  https://lnkd.in/de6DmXeT

⭐ We’re delighted to learn that Åsa Haglund – as the only Swede(!) – has made it to the 2026 edition of The Photonics100 list! ⭐ The list is put together by Electro Optics published by Europa Science Ltd and is an annual “celebration of the people that drive our industry forward – the innovators, the boundary-pushers, the disruptors, the out-of-the-box thinkers and the R&D ‘rock stars’.” Åsa Haglund is a Professor at the Photonics Laboratory Chalmers University of Technology. A few years ago, her research group in wide bandgap optoelectronics were able to demonstrate vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with the world’s shortest emission wavelength – 310 nm – which became the very first VCSEL to lase in the UVB range. When releasing this year's 100 list, Electro Optics states that “against a backdrop of geopolitical upheaval, technological transformation, and surging global demand, this year’s honourees represent the brightest talent navigating disruption with ingenuity and vision,” and that “the Photonics100 2026 cohort demonstrates how innovation - whether in advanced lasers, integrated circuits, biomedical sensing, or quantum systems - remains the industry’s most powerful answer to uncertainty.” For the first time, the United Kingdom takes the top spot in the global tally, with 21 honourees, reflecting its booming £18.5bn photonics sector. Germany follows with 19, and the United States drops to third with 17, down sharply from its previous dominance. Europe overall continues to lead, with 73 of this year’s innovators based across the continent. Read more about the The Photonics 100: https://lnkd.in/gs9a_kKf Read more about Åsa and her research group: https://lnkd.in/dM7XdjWC