Jonathan Wyrick, an experimental physicist at NIST, is leading research to develop artificial structures and devices at the atomic scale using silicon. His work focuses on creating artificial molecules, manipulating atoms and molecules with scanning tunneling microscopes, and building dopant-based arrays for quantum computing and simulation.
Wyrick’s team is developing new techniques for placing different dopants on silicon and fabricating atom-scale dopant clusters as qubits, quantum sensors, and memories. They are also working on feedback control, automation, and semi-automation protocols for more efficient atomic-scale device fabrication.
Wyrick holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Riverside, and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics from Furman University and James Madison University respectively.
Source: https://www.nist.gov/people/jonathan-wyrick
Keywords: quantum, simulation, dangling bonds, scanning tunneling microscope, quantum computing, qubits, atom-scale, dopant-based
