US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Nov. 11 for "High quality quantum computer components" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,502, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High quality quantum computer components" was invented by Zihao Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Mingwei Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Lan Yu (Voorheesville, N.Y.), Zhebo Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Jan Visser (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Nag Patibandla (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods of fabricating high quality quantum computing components are described. The methods include removing native oxide from a deposition surface of a silicon substrate in a cleaning chamber of a processing system, and transferring the silicon substr...