Missoula, MT – According to the officials, the 20-month grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, will support MSU’s Applied Quantum CORE facility, to be located at the MSU Innovation Campus within the INDUSTRY Bozeman building, which is currently under construction.
The grant funding will purchase equipment to test prototype quantum components in the extremely cold environments in which they operate.
Yves Idzerda, a physicist and dean of MSU’s College of Letters and Science who is the grant’s principal investigator and the administrator of MSU’s Applied Quantum CORE, said the new facility will aid the incorporation of quantum science into technological applications to benefit the government and private sectors.
CORE stands for Capacity and Operational Resilience and regional Equity.
