Research – Page 3 – OQC

Press Release

General Counsel, Nikki Cooper, appointed to OQC C-Suite

READING, UK -July 5th 2024: OQC expand leadership with appointment of General Counsel to C-Suite…

Abbie CurbisonJuly 8, 2024

Press Release

Dr. Peter Leek, appointed as Chief Scientific Officer

READING, UK -June 20th 2024: OQC today announced the appointment of Dr Peter Leek as…

Abbie CurbisonJune 20, 2024

Left: Josephson junctions fabricated in radial pattern around where it was going to be micro-machined later. Right: JJs located

Technical Blog

Overcoming scale-up challenges of sapphire-based quantum processors

In a world-first, we have developed a sapphire micro-machining process that integrates seamlessly with our…

Abbie CurbisonJune 17, 2024

(a) As-fabricated Josephson junction resistances from a typical OQC Lucy-8QPU wafer. JJ resistances are in three separate design groups 1, 2, and 3, designated by the colours grey, red, and blue. (b) The same wafer having undergone our electron-beam annealing process. The spread of each JJ group is reduced.

Technical Blog

E-beam annealing of Josephson junctions offers precise control over qubit frequencies

Electron-beam (e-beam) annealing of Josephson junctions offers precise control over qubit frequencies post-fabrication.

Abbie CurbisonMarch 14, 2024

Figure 2 Dimon Device Schematic

Technical Blog

Hardware efficient error detection

Error-detection and correction is needed to improve computations. OQC have demonstrated a hardware efficient method…

Abbie CurbisonMarch 11, 2024

Publication

Electron-beam annealing of Josephson junctions for frequency tuning of quantum processors

In this paper, we present an approach to tuning fixed-frequency qubits with the use of…

Abbie CurbisonFebruary 27, 2024