Fabrication method for superconducting circuit and superconducting quantum chip
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12207568
Disclosed are a fabrication method for a superconducting circuit and a superconducting quantum chip. The fabrication method includes: determining, on a substrate, a first junction region located between a first electrical element and a second electrical element, and a second junction region located between a first conductive plate and a second conductive plate that are formed in advance; forming a Josephson junction in the second junction region; detect an electrical parameter of the…
Sensor for lifetime plus spectral characterization
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12203855
Some aspects relate to integrated devices for obtaining timing and/or spectral information from incident light. In some embodiments, a pixel may include one or more charge storage regions configured to receive charge carriers generated responsive to incident photons from a light source, with charge carriers stored in the charge storage region(s) indicative of spectral and timing information. In some embodiments, a pixel may include regions having different depths, each configured to…
Integrated device for temporal binning of received photons
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12203854
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit also includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers into the at least one charge carrier…
Optical nanostructure rejecter for an integrated device and related methods
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12203853
Apparatus and methods relating to photonic bandgap optical nanostructures are described. Such optical nanostructures may exhibit prohibited photonic bandgaps or allowed photonic bands, and may be used to reject (e.g., block or attenuate) radiation at a first wavelength while allowing transmission of radiation at a second wavelength. Examples of photonic bandgap optical nanostructures includes periodic and quasi-periodic structures, with periodicity or quasi-periodicity in one, two, or…
Process for the continuous production of methanol
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12202789
A process for the production of methanol from hydrogen and carbon monoxide includes contacting the hydrogen and carbon monoxide with a liquid in at least one bubble or loop or jet loop reactor. The liquid comprises at least one solvent, an alcohol and/or an amine as a nucleophilic promoter, optionally an additional base and a catalyst, the catalyst comprising a transition metal and at least one Lewis base ligand. At least one device is provided for heat removal from the reactor. Methanol…
N-configuration resonator-coupled quantum emitter
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198012
A quantum computing system, method, and computer readable medium involves initializing a state of a resonator-coupled quantum emitter having at least four levels arranged in an N-configuration, the N-configuration having a first ground state, a second ground state, a first excited state and a second excited state. A frequency of a first transition between the first ground state and the first excited state is tuned, a frequency of a second transition between the second ground state and…
Quantum tomography and photon source optimization
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199683
A quantum computing system includes a photon processing system, a photon analyzer, and a photon source module coupled to the photon processing system and to the photon analyzer. The photon source module includes at least one photon source configured to discharge one or more photons per trigger signal and a photon multiplexer configured to direct the one or more photons to the photon processing system or to the photon analyzer.
Superconducting switch
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199604
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and circuits for reducing switch transition time of superconductor switches. In some embodiments, an electrical circuit includes: (i) an input component configured to generate heat in response to an electrical input; and (ii) a first superconducting component thermally-coupled to the input component. The electrical circuit is configured such that, in the absence of the electrical input, at least a portion of the first…
Tapered connectors for superconductor circuits
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199039
A superconducting circuit includes a photon detector component, a second component, and a multi-taper superconducting connector shaped to reduce current crowding, the superconducting connector electrically connecting the photon detector component and the second component. The multi-taper superconducting connector includes a first taper arranged adjacent the photon detector component and a second taper arranged adjacent the second component.
Silicon nitride films having reduced interfacial strain
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198926
In some embodiments a method comprises depositing a first silicon nitride layer on a top surface of a semiconductor wafer and forming one or more first gaps in the first silicon nitride layer. The one or more first gaps can relieve stress formed in the first silicon nitride layer. A first fill material is deposited on the first silicon nitride layer and the first silicon nitride layer is planarized. A second silicon nitride layer is deposited across the first silicon nitride layer and…
Cascaded resonators photon pair source
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197103
A frequency conversion system includes a bus waveguide, a first pump laser coupled to the bus waveguide and characterized by a first frequency, a second pump laser coupled to the bus waveguide and characterized by a second frequency, an input light combining device coupled to the bus waveguide and configured to combine light from the first pump laser and the second pump laser to produce a combined light, and a plurality of optical resonators coupled to the bus waveguide. Each optical…
Phase shifter employing transparent electrodes
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197100
Electro-optical devices and methods for constructing electro-optical devices such as a switch or phase shifter. An electrode layer is deposited on a substrate layer, a waveguide structure is deposited on the electrode layer, a first cladding layer is deposited on the waveguide structure, and the first cladding layer is planarized and bonded to a wafer. The substrate layer is removed and the electrode layer is etched to split the electrode layer into a first electrode separated from a…
Method for coating film by pulsed laser deposition with plasma grating
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195841
A method for film coating by pulsed laser deposition with a plasma grating includes: in step 1, providing a substrate and a target material; in step 2, generating a femtosecond pulsed laser beam which is split by a beam splitting module so as to form a plurality of femtosecond pulsed laser sub-beams; in step 3, performing a first excitation on the target material by one of the split femtosecond pulsed laser sub-beams as a pre-pulse after focus, to generate a first plasma; in step 4,…
Compounds for imaging tau proteins that accumulate in the brain
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12195454
The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: wherein: R1 and R2 are each separately selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, acyl, and hydroxyalkyl; R3 is hydrogen or halogen; ring A is a benzene ring or a pyridine ring; ring B is selected from the group consisting of the following formulas (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv): in the formula (ii), Ra…
Active photonic devices incorporating high dielectric constant materials
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189266
A waveguide structure includes a substrate and a waveguide core coupled to the substrate and including a first material characterized by a first index of refraction and a first electro-optic coefficient. The waveguide structure also includes a first cladding layer at least partially surrounding the waveguide core and including a second material characterized by a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction and a second electro-optic coefficient greater than the…
Method for quantum communication
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191916
A method for quantum communication between at least three receivers includes: i) generating an entangled photon pair in a source (2) with a signal photon in a signal wavelength range and an idler photon in an idler wavelength range, ii) assigning the signal and idler photons to the quantum channels (4) on the basis of their wavelength; iii) transmitting the photon pair to the receivers (3) via the quantum channels (4); iv) detecting the photon pair at the receivers (3). The…
Millimeter wave radio frequency structure
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191900
A millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) structure uses a substrate including a liquid-crystal polymer material, at least one dual-polarized antenna, a RF transceiver module, and a switching module electrically connected to the at least one dual-polarized antenna and the RF transceiver module, where the switching module includes a first switching element and a second switching element electrically connected to the at least one dual-polarized antenna, and a third switching element…
Field effect transistor with a negative capacitance gate structure
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12191355
A field effect transistor has a negative capacitance gate structure. The field effect transistor comprises a channel and a gate dielectric arranged over the channel. The negative capacitance gate structure comprises a bottom electrode structure comprising a bottom electrode, a multi-domain structure, and a top electrode structure. The multi-domain structure comprises a multi-domain element arranged over the bottom electrode, the multi-domain element comprising a plurality of topological…
Detectors, optical switches, and waveguides
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190206
A quantum computing system, method and computer readable medium involve a vacuum enclosure for sustaining a vacuum below 10?3 millibar, optical resonators tuned to a resonance of an alkali atom, and a trapping laser for maintaining the alkali atom within a mode of the optical resonators. An atom excitation laser induces photon emissions, a plurality of waveguides couple photons to and from the optical resonators, and a plurality of detectors detect a presence or absence of an…
Heralding-free connections in quantum computing
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190205
Systems and methods for a quantum computing include a plurality of photonic processing stages, a plurality of heralding-free connections, and circuitry configured to regulate photon flow between adjacent stages such that decisions about stage settings or flow between adjacent stages are free of input from a previous stage. Each heralding-free connection is located between adjacent photonic processing stages. Each photonic processing stage includes at least two of an optical switch, a…
