Quantum Brilliance opens Melbourne synthetic diamond foundry

Australian-German company Quantum Brilliance has opened a new facility at Melbourne’s Notting Hill, where it will make lab-grown diamonds for quantum computing devices. 

According to a statement on Wednesday from state economic growth minister Danny Pearson, who opened the foundry, the new facility at Co-Labs will see world-leading technology developed to enable portable quantum devices that are able to work at room temperature.

“With this launch, the Foundry will begin to deliver its mission is to unlock the potential of diamond-based quantum technologies by supplying high-performance quantum diamond at scale and accelerating the design and fabrication of quantum diamond devices,” said Dr Marcus Doherty, CTO at Quantum Brilliance.

The state government has supported Doherty’s company through its venture organisation, Breakthrough Victoria, which made an initial investment of $8 million and a follow-up of $10 million. QB was also one of the first companies backed by the National Reconstruction Fund, which invested $13 million in the foundry in December last year. 

Quantum Brilliance has Australian sites at Canberra and Melbourne, as well as offices in Germany, Singapore, the UK and Japan

In September it announced that three of its quantum processor units were installed in the US at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) first on-site, commercial quantum computer cluster.

Picture: credit Quantum Brilliance

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