QNC Facilities

The new Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre will allow faculty and students to pursue quantum information research at the highest level. Shared with the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, the building will foster cross-disciplinary collaboration in its many common areas, lounges and meeting rooms. The QNC will be at the heart of the University of Waterloo’s main campus.

Temporary Fabrication Facility:

In 2008, IQC constructed a temporary fabrication facility at its RAC1 building in an effort to get key research started while QNC was under construction.

Design Principles:

1. It must meet the highest scientific standards, including stringent vibration and temperature, humidity and low electromagnetic radiation standards
2. It must encourage interaction and collaboration between researchers and students
3. It should serve as a magnet for top scientists to Waterloo

Building Features:

The building will include a suite of laboratories for research in quantum optics, NMR and ESR, quantum dots, superconducting qubits, coherent spintronics and quantum cryptography. It will also be adjacent to a new fabrication and metrology facility resulting from a successful IQC CFI application.

The design of the QNC provides a focal point that links all locations of the building together in one main atrium. The layout is meant to bring mathematicians, computers scientists, chemists, physicists and engineers together and foster scientific interaction and collaboration.

IQC's will have 125,000 sq. ft. at the QNC that will provide office space for faculty and graduate students, research laboratories, fabrication and testing facilities, seminar and lecture rooms, numerous interaction spaces and an auditorium that will accommodate up to 200 people.

The first of its kind in the world, the building will provide the space to nurture research, discussion and instruction in the exciting fields of quantum information and nanotechnology engineering.