Richard M. Silver, an experimental physicist at NIST, is leading groundbreaking research in atomically precise device fabrication and metrology for silicon-based quantum technologies. His team is developing methods to place individual dopant atoms in silicon lattices using hydrogen-based scanning probe lithography, with applications in solid-state qubits, analog quantum simulation, synthetic quantum materials, and quantum metrology.
Silver’s work has already produced significant results, including analog quantum simulations of many-body physics using dopant-based arrays. His recent focus is on exploring lattice gauge theories through analog quantum simulations with dopant electrons coupled to dopant nuclear spins. He has also collaborated extensively with the semiconductor industry, contributing to advancements in optical column design, hardware control, statistics, and electromagnetic modeling.
The scientific and industrial impacts of Silver’s research include scatterfield microscopy, hybrid metrology, optical Fourier normalization, structured illumination for defect inspection and overlay, advanced optical simulation, and sub-15 nm optical imaging. This project is at the forefront of high-resolution optical imaging and deep sub-wavelength optical metrology.
Source: https://www.nist.gov/people/richard-m-silver
Keywords: Dopant, Solid-State Qubits, Analog Quantum Simulation
