Research Areas - (10) Chip-Scale and Wearable SERF Sensor Engineering

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Orang Alem
FieldLine Inc. 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): FieldLine Inc. | FieldLine @ FieldLine
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Alem develops ruggedised zero-field OPM sensors and turnkey OPM-MEG systems at FieldLine, having earlier co-developed OPM-MEG at NIST/Nottingham. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

Elizabeth Donley
National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder) 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Time and Frequency Division | Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group @ NISTBoulder
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Donley develops compact atomic clocks, atom interferometers and vapor-cell atomic sensors, including microfabricated magnetometers and NMR-on-a-chip at NIST. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

Yuan-Yu Jau
Sandia National Laboratories 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Sandia National Laboratories | Sandia atomic physics @ Sandia
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Jau develops vapor-cell atomic devices - magnetometers, clocks and Rydberg/entanglement experiments - for precision sensing at Sandia. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

John Kitching
National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder) 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Time and Frequency Division | Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group @ NISTBoulder
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Kitching pioneered chip-scale atomic clocks and magnetometers, combining atomic spectroscopy, silicon micromachining and photonics, with applications to biomagnetism (MEG/MCG) and microfluidic NMR. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

Svenja Knappe
University of Colorado Boulder 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Department of Mechanical Engineering | Knappe Lab @ CUBoulder
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Knappe develops microfabricated chip-scale atomic magnetometers and clocks and applies them to biomagnetism (MEG/MCG) and NMR; she co-founded FieldLine to commercialise OPM sensors. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

Matthieu Le Prado
CEA-Leti 🔗 Mag4Health SAS 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Mag4Health | He-OPM MEG (Mag4Health) @ CEALeti
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Le Prado develops the helium-4 OPM sensor technology and instrumentation behind Mag4Health's 4He OPM-MEG systems. The work complements NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, NMR, T1 relaxometry) at pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity by pursuing the same field-sensing goals in a different physical platform.

Jeff Martin
TRIUMF 🔗 University of Winnipeg 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Department of Physics / TRIUMF | TUCAN Collaboration @ TRIUMF
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Martin leads the TUCAN neutron-EDM effort, developing ultracold-neutron sources and precision magnetometry (including QuSpin zero-field OPMs) for magnetic-field mapping and control in the nEDM measurement. The work complements NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, NMR, T1 relaxometry) at pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity by pursuing the same field-sensing goals in a different physical platform.

James Osborne
QuSpin Inc. 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): QuSpin Inc. | QuSpin @ QuSpin
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Osborne develops QuSpin's zero-field OPM sensors and their integration into research and OPM-MEG systems. The work complements NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, NMR, T1 relaxometry) at pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity by pursuing the same field-sensing goals in a different physical platform.

Peter Schwindt
Sandia National Laboratories 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Sandia National Laboratories | Sandia atomic sensors @ Sandia
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Schwindt develops microfabricated and SERF optically pumped magnetometers and atomic sensors, including compact OPM arrays for MEG. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.

Vishal Shah
QuSpin Inc. 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): QuSpin Inc. | QuSpin @ QuSpin
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Shah founded QuSpin, which commercialised the compact zero-field (SERF) OPM (QZFM) that underpins most wearable OPM-MEG systems worldwide; he continues to advance sensor sensitivity, dynamic range and multi-axis operation. This vapour-phase approach reaches femto-to-picotesla sensitivities complementary to NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensors (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) that operate near the pT/sqrt(Hz) regime.