Zyvex Labs Awarded a DOE Phase I STTR with Oak Ridge National Labs
Zyvex Labs is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a DOE Phase I STTR with Oak Ridge National Labs as (ORNL) its Research Institute partner. The program is entitled “Scanning Tunneling Microscope-based Hydrogen Depassivation Lithography Automation Via Artificial Intelligence”. This is being funded by DOE’s Basic Energy Science Office, Dr. George Maracas program manager. Dr. Udi Fuchs (pictured left) will be the Principal Investigator for Zyvex Labs and will work with Dr. Maxim Ziatdinov at ORNL, an expert in AI developed image analysis for their “Atom Forge” project where he has worked with Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) atom by atom fabrication. In this project he will work with Udi to develop AI based image recognition for Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) based hydrogen depassivation lithography (HDL). HDL is a distant cousin to E-Beam Lithography but has remarkably higher resolution and precision, but still requires significant human intervention, usually looking at STM images to select where to pattern, to calibrate the tool, to find alignment markers, to inspect for successful patterning etc. The goal of the program is to have image analysis routines that can make decisions allowing automated routines to proceed efficiently without human intervention. If successful this will be an important step to Atomically Precise manufacturing. The figure below suggest that we expect to accomplish: Take a moderate quality STM image and determine unambiguously where all of the atoms are on the surface.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
$2.4 Million Grant Gives Big Boost to Atomic-Level Manufacturing Project
Dr. Reza Moheimani, professor of systems engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a platform technology for high-throughput, atomically precise manufacturing (APM).
The grant builds on innovative work led by Moheimani in scanning tunneling microscopy. Moheimani, who holds the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology, aims to develop enabling technologies for a novel approach to atomically precise manufacturing, which is essentially a form of 3D printing with atomic precision.
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Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
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Zyvex Labs Partners with Oak Ridge National Laboratories on Simulation of Hydrogen Depassivation Lithography
After attending the Atom by Atom Fabrication with Electron Beams and Scanning Probes at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in late 2018, John Randall was impressed by the computer simulations of Dr. David Lingerfelt on e-beam interactions with materials. After discussions with Dr. Lingerfelt, Zyvex Labs requested a Rapid Response User Agreement with ORNL to use similar methods to study the distribution of tunneling electrons in our Scanning Tunneling Microscope based Hydrogen Depassivation Lithography process. We are proud to announce that we now have an approved User agreement with ORNL, the home of the World’s most powerful super computer, SUMMIT, to do this computer simulation work. We have had initial discussions with Dr. Lingerfelt and are looking forward to working with him.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Zyvex Labs to be an Active Participant in Quantum Economic Development Consortium
U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with SRI International to lead a consortium focused on quantum science and engineering. SRI International is a nonprofit, independent R&D center headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Zyvex Labs President John Randall attended the 2nd organizational meeting of this new organization and is on the Enabling Technology Sub-committee of that organization. Zyvex Labs does not speak for this new organization and what follows is the opinion of John Randall.
The intent of the organization is broadly to insure that the US has the needed workforce, technology, infrastructure, and funding to compete effectively in the increasingly global quantum technology race. Zyvex Labs believes that this is an important and worthwhile effort and intends to be active in this consortium. John Randall is part of the Technical Advisory Committee on Enabling Technologies and will participate in an upcoming meeting in January at NIST in Boulder, Colorado.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
James H.G. Owen to present talk at Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop 2018, 13-15 November, 2018 Sydney, Australia
James Owen and John Randall will attend the workshop which explores quantum electronics in Si, with an emphasis on quantum computing devices. James Owen will present a talk entitled “Improving HDL dopant placement precision”. This is an important event hosted by the Australian Center of Excellence on Quantum Computing and Communication Technology of which, Zyvex Labs is an Industrial Partner.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
John Randall attended the second meeting of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) that was held at the NIST facility in Boulder Colorado which was held October 29-30, 2018. The consortium is being developed by NIST and facilitated by SRI. The explicit intention of the QED-C appears to be to accelerate the Quantum Industry in the US. A good mixture of small, medium, and large companies attended and the organization is intending to expand. We like the focus areas that were discussed which include workforce, standards, and enabling technologies. In our opinion, quantum technologies including quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum materials will have huge scientific, technological and economic impacts. Zyvex Labs believes that this is a worthwhile effort that will have positive effects and intends to participate.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Zyvex Labs at the MNE Conference in Copenhagen
Zyvex Labs will present three papers, be an exhibitor, and host the Micro-Nano-Graph Contest at the MNE 2018 Conference in Copenhagen Sept. 24-27. The three presentations include the MNE Fellow Plenary talk by John Randall on “Digital Atomic Scale Fabrication”, an oral talk by Udi Fuchs (pictured) entitled, “Identifying surface elements in STM images using Neural Networks”, and a poster presentation by James Owen on “2D dopant arrays using a Tip-assisted Incorporation Process” (please note: these were the abstract titles at the time of submission but may change).
MNE 2018 will be the 44th conference in a series that was started in Cambridge in 1975. The conference brings together engineers and scientists from all over the world to discuss recent progress and future trends in the fabrication and application of micro- and nanostructures and devices. Applications in electronics, photonics, electromechanics, environment, life sciences and biology are also discussed.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Rahul Saini Wins the Prestigious Technology Inventor Award at the 2018 Tech Titans Gala
Rahul Saini, Director of Microsystems & Biosystems at Zyvex Labs and Founding member of Teliatry Inc., has won the prestigious Technology Inventor Award at the 2018 Tech Titans Gala. Rahul was cited for his role as the system architect of the most complicated and advanced implant ever made to restore vision for blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa and advanced macular degeneration. He has multiple patents awarded/pending for this wireless, batteryless implant that is the size of a grain of rice. He also has developed a neuromodulation implant for Vagus Nerve Stimulation that has led to another Zyvex spin out company – Teliatry Inc. – that is producing these implants to be used by the Texas Biomedical Device Center at the University of Texas at Dallas for multiple early feasibility study human trials. The implant is the key component of the targeted plasticity therapy that will be used to treat, in separate human trials: Spinal Cord Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Tinnitus, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and Stroke. John Randall, President of Zyvex Labs, has said on multiple occasions: “I wish I was half as good an engineer as Rahul Saini.”
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Randall to Present at Department of Defense Planning and Strategy Meeting on Materials for Quantum Applications
John Randall, President of Zyvex Labs has been invited to present at the Department of Defense (DoD) Planning and Strategy Meeting on Materials for Quantum Applications to be held on August 14 – August 15, 2018 at the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) Systems and Analysis Center in Alexandria Virginia. The Army, Navy, and Airforce are keenly interested in the potential of Quantum Materials to significantly affect national security issues. Dr. Randall will be presenting on the opportunities presented by the atomically precise engineering of materials to create analog quantum simulations to better understand the physics of quantum materials and to potentially create desired quantum properties in quantum meta-materials.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.
Joseph Lake to Present Poster at Molecular Foundry User Meeting
Joseph Lake will be attending the Molecular Foundry User Meeting in Berkeley, California August 15-16, 2018. This meeting brings together researchers from universities, national labs and companies from across the globe. This year’s attendance is expected to be approximately 300 researchers.
Joseph will be presenting the poster “Development of a Standardized Platform for Atomically Precision Device Fabrication” based on results to date of Zyvex Labs’ user project with Molecular Foundry. This goal of this project is to develop a development platform suitable for a wide range of devices produced using atomically precise manufacturing techniques including highly doped contact pad areas and alignment marks suitable for all levels of lithography, optical, e-beam and STM based hydrogen depassivation lithography.
Zyvex Lab’s ZyVector™ Control system provides the world’s highest (sub-nm) resolution lithography technology. Click here for more information.
The Zyvex Creep and Hysteresis Correction Controller is a live tip position control for fast settling times after landing, and precise motion across the surface. Click here for more information.