Researcher Scott Diddams in his laboratory with students

CU Â鶹ӰԺ, Elevate Quantum partners ready for $127M regional quantum boost

July 2, 2024

Elevate Quantum, of which CU Â鶹ӰԺ is a key partner, announced today that it has received a Tech Hub Phase 2 implementation award from the Department of Commerce, unlocking more than $127 million in new federal and state funding. The award is expected to drive more than $2 billion in additional private capital and cement the Mountain West as a global leader for quantum innovation.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, left, visited campus Oct. 20

CU and Sen. Michael Bennet celebrate quantum hub news, hear from students

Oct. 27, 2023

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet visited campus Oct. 20, and the trip to campus became an unexpected cause for celebration about Colorado’s place in the nation’s burgeoning quantum ecosystem.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ quantum leaders Greg Rieker, Jun Ye, Massimo Ruzzene, Keith Molenaar and Scott Diddams and others gathered to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space.

Leadership highlights investment, new projects at quantum engineering lab ribbon cutting

May 30, 2023

Leaders from across the CU Â鶹ӰԺ campus and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gathered last week to celebrate the official launch of the Quantum Engineering Initiative Lab space within the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

A cloud-covered Earth as seen from space

New $15M NASA grant will support quantum sensors in space

March 16, 2023

A multi-university research team, including engineers and physicists from CU Â鶹ӰԺ, will build technology and tools to improve measurement of important climate factors by observing atoms in outer space.

Scott Diddams in his lab with students

Diddams receives prestigious Mees Medal for ground-breaking optics research that transcends boundaries

March 1, 2023

Professor Scott Diddams has been selected for the 2023 C.E.K. Mees Medal from Optica (formerly OSA) for his pioneering innovations leading to the wide-ranging application of optical frequency combs to ultrafast lasers, optical clocks, spectroscopy, microwave synthesis, and astronomy.

Scott Diddams, left, and Greg Rieker in the lab

QEI Collaboration Lab opening to foster high-impact research in quantum engineering

Oct. 10, 2022

Researchers from CU Â鶹ӰԺ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be better able to coordinate their efforts with the opening of the Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) Collaboration Lab on Sept. 26.

A person working in the COSINC lab space

As U.S. ramps up semiconductor production, engineers are probing new tiny electronics

Aug. 30, 2022

A number of researchers at CU Â鶹ӰԺ are celebrating the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act by Congress.

A student working in the COSINC lab

Webinar planned to showcase x-ray and electron microscopy facilities

Oct. 27, 2021

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility and the Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC) facility will host a joint virtual webinar from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 18 via Zoom.

A laser heats up ultra-thin bars of silicon.

Cool it: Nano-scale discovery could help prevent overheating in electronics

Sept. 22, 2021

A team of physicists at CU Â鶹ӰԺ has solved the mystery behind a perplexing phenomenon in the nano realm: why some ultra-small heat sources cool down faster if you pack them closer together. The findings, which will publish this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Graphic showing how a time lens can distinguish between two photons arriving at a detector close together. (Credit: Optica)

New quantum 'stopwatch' can improve imaging technologies

Aug. 24, 2021

Electrical engineering researchers at CU Â鶹ӰԺ have designed one of the most precise stopwatches yet — one that can count single photons. The group published its results this week in the journal Optica.

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