Nexdep Evaporator Used for Excitonics

Dan Congreve is the principal investigator at his lab in the Rowland Institute at Harvard. His group seek deeper foundational understanding of excitonic materials in order to build increasingly efficient light absorbing and light emitting devices.

“I became interested in organic photovoltaics back while I was a masters student.” Says Congreve, “I went to MIT to work on it, and eventually branched out into other applications of excitonics as the research led. I’m really excited about the LEDs and upconverting thin films, in particular.”

The research focuses on how various excitonic materials interact with one another and why. His group website mentions how “comparatively little work has been done to understand how these materials interact with one another. We seek to take advantage of these materials, utilizing and combining them to make new and unique energy devices.”

Dan uses a Nexdep physical vapor deposition system in his lab, and discusses working with the system: “I ‘grew up’ on an older Angstrom system in Marc Baldo’s lab at MIT – that was the reason I bought one for my own lab here at Harvard. My evaporator was installed a little over a year ago.

“We mostly use it to make LEDs, solar cells, and thin films for various uses. It allows us to design and execute complicated device structures easily. It has worked very well, I’ve been very happy with the performance of this evaporator.”

For more on Congreve’s work, click here.

For more on Nexdep, click here.

Having arrived in Brazil, our partner’s logistics team takes the lead, taking it out of the wooden box so that it can fit through the door of the facility. The journey resulted in the standard small bumps and dents that are categorized and logged so that our installation team can quickly and effectively get the system up and running, which they do.

Finally, all that’s left to do is to fabricate some superconducting circuits, and further the field of quantum computing. Our partners at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF) expressed their excitement at having gained the capabilities  of partnering with us in this translated LinkedIn post:

 

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the arrival of the newest equipment, from Angstrom Engineering, to the Quantum Technologies Laboratory of CBPF. This laboratory is complementary to Labnano, one of the strategic laboratories of SisNANO – the National System of Nanotechnology Laboratories of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI).

SisNANO is comprised of a set of laboratories focused on research, development and innovation (RD&I) in nanosciences and nanotechnologies, with the essential characteristic of being multi-user and open access to public and private institutions.

Acquired with funding from Finep and support from MCTI, the new equipment will allow CBPF to advance in the manufacture of superconducting quantum nanodevices, such as Josephson junctions and SQUIDS. These devices are essential for the development of future quantum chips, which promise to transform areas such as computing, secure communication and metrology.

The impact of this advance is also connected to related projects funded by FAPERJ, CNPq and Petrobras, consolidating a robust research ecosystem in Brazil.

This achievement reinforces the commitment of CBPF and MCTI to leading the frontier of scientific research, contributing to enabling the country to compete in a global scenario marked by disruptive and strategic advances.

We would like to thank the institutions involved and the professionals who made this achievement possible. We invite the scientific, technological and industrial community to closely monitor the transformative results that this new infrastructure will provide.