Quantum
For more than two decades, SRI has been developing precision quantum sensors to enable next-generation sensing and communications systems, from chip-scale clocks to cold-atom–based sensor systems, including developing the sophisticated integration technology required to move these sensors out of the lab.
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Transforming matter: Researchers create perfect crystals from amorphous blobs
SRI aims to create a new electronic device class made of two or more semiconductors.
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SRI selected as DARPA’s Regional Commercial Accelerator
DARPA looks to harness SRI’s expertise to speed up tech transition — out of the lab into the real world — and scale DARPA-funded technologies for U.S. national and economic security outcomes.
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Wafer-thin optical arrays could revolutionize satellite-to-satellite communication
SRI’s light emitter arrays aim to democratize optical communication among “constellations” of small satellites.
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Jonathan Felbinger: Helping prepare the world for a quantum future
Quantum could transform how we communicate, compute, and develop in innumerable fields.
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Sterling McBride: Three decades of quantum innovation
McBride’s path to creating best-in-class quantum sensors started over 30 years ago at SRI, in microfluidics.
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SRI is developing breakthrough quantum technologies for ultrasensitive sensing
Navigation, medical imaging, and other areas could benefit from powerful new sensors that are based on detecting changes induced upon individual atoms.
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SRI publishes first-of-its-kind roadmap to help bring quantum from lab to fab
The roadmap identifies barriers on the path to full-scale manufacturing of quantum systems for computing, sensing, and networking.
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SRI is developing textiles that record audio
Turning piezoelectric materials and lithium-ion batteries into thread, innovators will weave fabrics that record sound.
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Elizabeth Fortescue: Translating quantum models into prototypes
Fortescue is using her mechanical engineering expertise to bring quantum concepts to reality for physicists.
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SRI-led team demonstrates a magnetic sensor that detects biomagnetic signals
The Atomic Magnetometer for Biological Imaging in Earth’s Native Terrain (AMBIIENT) analyzes signals that can diagnose some medical conditions.
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Celia Merzbacher testifies before House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Merzbacher, executive director of the SRI-managed Quantum Economic Development Consortium, spoke on the importance of quantum programs, workforce, and R&D.
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Solving “unsolvable” math challenges with quantum-inspired computers
SRI researchers hope to compete with quantum computing by applying new algorithms to map large problems onto faster, more energy-efficient photonic circuitry.