Everything you need for quantum hardware engineering in the field. Curated by Onri Jay Benally, an Indigenous American quantum hardware engineer.
To download a copy of the full Experimental Quantum Hardware Engineering PDF I wrote, click here.
To download a copy of the Nanofabrication Technology for Quantum Chips PDF I wrote, click here.
An extended version of the video playlists is available: Quantum Hardware Engineering
| Click Below To Access School of Quantum - QuTech Academy |
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| School of Quantum |
| Click Below To Access IQM Academy - IQM |
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| IQM Academy |
| Click Below To Access Quantum Chip Gallery - TU Delft |
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| Quantum Integrated Circuits |
| More from the Chip Gallery |
| Insights/Topics |
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| Start with a 3D modeling & linguistics framework, may involve a custom keywords glossary. |
| Know that this specialty involves learning to probe something without necessarily having to physically contact its surface. This is what spectroscopy or "scatterometry" is about. |
| Typically, topics covered under quantum hardware engineering are combinations of materials science & engineering, quantum metrology, quantum transport, quantum optics, & quantum electronic design automation. |
| Know how electronic filters are configured or set up. |
| Know how electronic filters are designed & what they look like. |
| Know what components various filters are made of. |
| Know the difference between passive & active filters. |
| Know the difference between optical, microwave, & radio frequency (RF) isolators, circulators, & mixers. |
| Be aware of different room temperature & cryogenic amplifiers. |
| Know what room temperature & cryogenic amplifiers are made of. |
| Know the different types/hierarchy of amplifier noise (thermal, shot, external, quantum). |
| Know how a signal curve or response is manipulated. |
| Know how signals are triggered. |
| Know what impedance matching is (how many ohms is required). |
| Know how a Smith chart works. |
| Know the many purposes of a resistor (there's a whole list). |
| Know what multiphase power means. |
| Know what a resonator & resonator cavity is. |
| Know what vector network & spectrum analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, & signal generators do. |
| Know what an oscillator circuit does (voltage fluctuation or AC). |
| Know what an inverter circuit does (DC to AC conversion). |
| Know what a rectifier circuit does (AC to DC conversion). |
| Know what high-pass, low-pass, band-pass, band-stop filter circuits/crossover networks do (signal filtering). |
| Know what a comparator circuit does (threshold indicator). |
| Know what a few basic logic gates can do (calculator). |
| Know what a PID [closed-loop] controller does (electronic-based self-balancing). |
| Know what a feed forward [open-loop] controller does (electronic-based self-balancing alternative). |
| Bonus: Know how to build a simple electronic audio amplifier device (it has many components similar to quantum computing systems). |
| Coding Topics |
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| Library installation |
| Syntax & commenting |
| Curve fitting, direct parameterization, & mesh parameterization |
| Automation scripting |
| Data management & data structures |
| Parallel processing & accelerated computing techniques |
| Interpolation & extrapolation |
| Linear regression |
| Signal processing |
| Noise plots |
| Manual debugging |
