Ultra-clean germanium/silicon (Ge/Si) heterostructures in nanowires and quantum wells have been predicted and proven to host highly stable, controllable and accessible hole spin qubits with a large scalability potential, opening the door towards the development of realistic and reliable solid state, all-electric quantum computers.
In this project, we develop and optimize two types of Ge/Si heterostructures with optimized properties for qubit fabrication:
The method we employ is Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), a thin film deposition technique that allows to obtain high quality epitaxial growth by thermal and/or plasma-induced decomposition of Si and Ge gas precursors onto crystalline substrates.
This work is supported as a part of NCCR SPIN, a National Centre of Competence (or Excellence) in Research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 51NF40-180604).