The cover of Applied Physics Letters‘ first issue of 2022 features the work of ECE Professor Philip Feng and his research group. In the article, “Design of strongly nonlinear graphene nanoelectromechanical systems in quantum regime,” the authors show that atomically thin nonlinear nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) can offer sufficient anharmonicity for quantum NEMS to behave like artificial atoms, thus feasible to enable qubit devices with much smaller footprints than today’s qubit hardware.

This work is in collaboration with UF ECE research scientist Dr. Jaesung Lee, and Dr. Matt LaHaye at AFRL Information Directorate’s Quantum Information Science Branch (Rome, New York).

Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0069561