{"id":196642,"date":"2024-09-25T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/writing-with-atoms-could-transform-materials-fabrication-for-quantum-devices"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:22:49","slug":"writing-with-atoms-could-transform-materials-fabrication-for-quantum-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/writing-with-atoms-could-transform-materials-fabrication-for-quantum-devices","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Writing\u2019 with atoms could transform materials fabrication for quantum devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5FSc-lqI6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new technology to continuously place individual atoms exactly where they are needed could lead to new materials for devices that address critical needs for the field of quantum computing and communication that cannot be produced by conventional means, say scientists who developed it.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a novel advanced microscopy tool to \u201cwrite\u201d with atoms, placing those atoms exactly where they are needed to give a material new properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy working at the atomic scale, we also work at the scale where quantum properties naturally emerge and persist,\u201d said Stephen Jesse, a materials scientist who leads this research and heads the Nanomaterials Characterizations section at ORNL\u2019s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS. \u201cWe aim to use this improved access to quantum behavior as a foundation for future devices that rely on uniquely quantum phenomena, like entanglement, for improving computers, creating more secure communications and enhancing the sensitivity of detectors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technology to continuously place individual atoms exactly where they are needed could lead to new materials for devices that address critical needs for the field of quantum computing and communication that cannot be produced by conventional means, say scientists who developed it. A research team at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}