CSIC Opens Quantum Nanofabrication Facility in Barcelona

Insider Brief

• The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has inaugurated a Quantum Nanofabrication Area at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), described as Spain’s largest research facility of its kind.
• The facility received more than €6 million in funding through Spain’s Complementary Plan for Quantum Communications and the PERTE Chip program to expand nanofabrication capabilities for quantum technologies and advanced microelectronics.
• The new area includes electron beam lithography, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy equipment for fabricating and characterizing nanoscale devices and circuits.

PRESS RELEASE — The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), an organization under the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (MICIU), has inaugurated the Quantum Nanofabrication Area of the Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), the largest research facility of its kind in Spain.

CSIC President Eloísa del Pino; the Catalan Government’s Minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat; the Secretary General for Research at the MICIU, Eva Ortega; and the Government’s Subdelegate in Catalonia, Mari Carmen García-Calvillo, visited this new facility today, which is now the most advanced in the country for the fabrication of nanoscale devices and circuits with applications in quantum technologies and other strategic areas of advanced microelectronics. The event was also attended by Teresa Sanchis, Director General of Research for the Government of Catalonia; Albert Ruiz, Vice Rector for Research at the UAB; Javier Ponce, Director General of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT); and Conchi Martínez, Councilor for Innovation for the City of Cerdanyola.