CREST Center for Research and Education in Quantum Leap Science and Technology

科学技术卓越研究中心（CREST）计划通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心，支持提高为少数民族服务的机构的研究能力。CREST促进了新知识的发展，提高了个别教师的研究生产力，扩大了在科学、技术、工程和数学学科中历史上代表性不足的学生的存在。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，诺福克州立大学打算建立一个多学科的CREST量子飞跃科学与技术研究与教育中心（CREQS），用于开发新的基于量子的技术，并为21世纪的量子科学劳动力提供教育，重点是培养来自STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的群体的科学家和工程师。拟议中的中心将扩大在STEM领域代表性不足的学生接受科学教育的机会；促进与本地社区的外展，并向公众介绍与量子有关的科学。这项工作的成功实施将推动新兴量子技术的发现，并导致K12、本科生和研究生的发展。CREST量子飞跃科学与技术研究与教育中心的目标是研究和开发用于制造下一代量子器件的材料、现象和制造技术。这一目标旨在通过三个协同研究重点来实现。推力1将专注于发现和合成新的拓扑量子材料，包括手性结构半金属，预计将拥有狄拉克，Weyl和马约拉纳费米子。这项工作将包括密集的材料合成工作，结合对其磁性、光学和输运性质的基础研究。“推力2号”将探索量子等离子体效应，包括从光到物质的自旋角动量转移，以及强约束和结构光场，这可能会导致光和物质在纳米尺度上被控制的新方法。推力3将通过将推力1和推力2中获得的基本材料特性知识与NSU 6000平方英尺100/1000级洁净室中的先进制造设施相结合，将量子和纳米材料集成到纳米级器件中。这将允许开发新技术，将费米子量子材料、自旋电子磁性材料和具有不可预见性质的材料集成到高精度量子器件中。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program supports the enhancement of research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. CREST promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty, and an expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. With National Science Foundation support, Norfolk State University intends to establish a multidisciplinary CREST Center for Research and Education in Quantum Leap Science and Technology (CREQS) for development of new quantum-based technology and for the education of the 21st century quantum science workforce with emphasis on the production of scientists and engineers from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The proposed center will expand access to science education for students underrepresented in STEM fields; foster outreach to the local community and introduce quantum related science to the general public. Successful implementation of this work will advance discovery in emergent quantum technology and result in the development of K12, undergraduate and graduate students. The goal of the CREST Center for Research and Education in Quantum Leap Science and Technology is to investigate and develop materials, phenomena, and manufacturing techniques for fabrication of next-generation quantum devices. This goal is intended to be accomplished using three synergistic research thrusts. Thrust 1 will focus on discovery and synthesis of new topological quantum materials including chiral structured semimetals that are predicted to host Dirac, Weyl and Majorana fermions. The work will include an intensive materials synthesis effort, combined with fundamental investigations of their magnetic, optical, and transport properties. Thrust 2 will explore quantum plasmonic effects that involve spin angular momentum transfer from light to matter, as well as strongly confined and structured optical fields which can result in new ways for light and matter to be controlled at the nanoscale. Thrust 3 will focus on integration of quantum- and nanomaterials into nanoscale devices by combining the fundamental materials properties knowledge obtained in Thrusts 1 and 2 with the advanced manufacturing facilities available in the NSU 6,000 square foot class 100/1000 cleanroom. This will allow development of novel techniques for integration of fermionic quantum materials, spintronic magnetic materials, and materials with unforeseen properties into high precision quantum devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.