From semiconductors to quantum technologies symposium

While information technology over the last 50 years has been based on conventional semiconductor electronics, future technologies – aiming to enhance the performance of computers, sensors and to secure data communication for the future internet – will use the quantum origins of nature.

This symposium highlighted the opportunities for the traditional semiconductor materials to remain the platform on which also the new quantum technologies will build on. The symposium, in part a celebration of the career of PSI Quantum Technologies group leader Hans Sigg, was held at ETHZ and included notable speakers both local and international, Gabriel Aeppli (PSI, ETHZ & EPFL), Jérôme Faist & Klaus Ensslin (ETHZ), Theo Rasing (RU Nijmegen), Giordano Scappucci (QuTech-TU Delft) and Klaus von Klitzing (MPI Stuttgart).

 

Welcome

9:00

Gabriel Aeppli
Hans Sigg, PSI

 

 

Semiconductors and Quantum Technology

9:05

Yasin Ekinci
PSI

Future of Semiconductor manufacturing

9:30

Klaus von Klitzing
MPI-Stuttgart

Quantum applied: the new S.I. system of units

10:00

Jérôme Faist
ETHZ

Light from Silicon: the intersubband way?

10:30 -11:00

 

COFFEE

11:00

Klaus Ensslin
ETHZ

Coupling spins to microwave photons

11:30

Ulf Gennser
Université Paris-Sud

 

Interactions in metallic quantum islands ajar: from heat blockade to electron teleportation.

 

Intermezzo

12:00

George Bruls
Uni Frankfurt

A quantum leap in classical optics

12:30 -13:30

 

LUNCH

13:30

Theo Rasing
RU Nijmegen

An optical leap in quantum spintronics

14:00

Imaging and QT at PSI                                                         Lenny Rivkin, Hans Braun

14:10

Anna Diaz
PSI

Ptychography: more than just high resolution imaging

14:35

Simon Gerber
PSI

PSI’s photon sources for investigation of solid state based coherent quantum control

15:00 - 15:30

 

COFFEE

 

Quests for Germanium

15:30

Giovanni Isella
POLIMI, Como

Intro: Ge-nesis

15:40

Giordano Scappucci
QuTech-TU Delft

Quantum Computing with Germanium

16:10

Francesco Armand Pilon
PSI

The Germanium Laser

16:40

Moritz Brehm
Linz University

Defect engineering of Germanium

17:10

Closing

 

 

 

 

Organisation

Hans Sigg, Gabriel Aeppli, Renate Bercher (PSI)