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BEYOND Materials

  • Alt 1: BEYOND Conventional
  • Alt 2: BEYOND Contemporary

Ushering in the quantum age.

  • Alt 1: The quantum epoch is upon us.
  • Alt 2:Ushering in the post-silicon age.
  • Alt 3: The post-silicon age is just around the corner.

Throughout history, metals have steered the course of technological advancement; the stone age gave way to the bronze age, the iron age, and now the silicon age.

But quantum physicist Na Young Kim believes that silicon – the material that powers circuits in our laptops and smartphones – is reaching its limit.

By manipulating atoms and molecules on the nano-scale, Kim’s team is forging beyond conventional materials to develop the next generation of enhanced computer circuits.

Her dream? To design and build a scalable quantum processor – the kind that might one day find its way to our pockets, once again revolutionizing the speed at which we communicate.

Welcome to the quantum age.

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Throughout history, metals have steered the course of technological advancement; the stone age gave way to the bronze age, the iron age, and now the silicon age.

But quantum physicist Na Young Kim believes that silicon – the semiconducting material that powers circuits in our laptops and smartphones – is reaching its limit.

Kim, a former startup entrepreneur and one-time smartphone developer, is forging unexplored paths to engineer the next-generation of quantum technologies. Her dream? To turn theory into reality by developing a tangible, scalable semiconductor for use in quantum processors.

If successful, her work will realize new capabilities for computation and revolutionize everything from how we communicate to the way we structure our economy.

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Throughout history, metals have steered the course of technology; the stone age gave way to the bronze age, the iron age, and now the silicon age.

But quantum physicist and one-time smartphone developer Na Young Kim believes that silicon – the material that powers circuits in our laptops and cell phones – is reaching its limit. Kim and her team in IQC’s Quantum Innovators (QuIN) lab are manipulating atoms and molecules at the nano-scale to engineer the next generation of computer processing materials.

As in centuries past, new materials give way to new technologies. Quantum circuits offer a level of processing power unrivaled by anything of the past century. The post-silicon age is just around the corner.

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Na Young Kim
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Faculty, Quantum Innovation (QuIN) laboratory, Institute for Quantum Computing