Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOGB20250317023
- Term of Validity
- 17 March 2025 - 17 March 2026
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- This UK based SME provides core componentry to the quantum technologies sector, for the creation and control of atomic systems at the quantum level. They seek partnership with quantum technology creators and manufacturers, to integrate their innovative componentry into advanced platforms for sensing, navigation, secure communication or quantum computing. Ideally, partnerships sought are with organsiations that can offer expertise via a commercial cooperation agreement with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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This company creates core hardware components for advanced quantum technologies, to enable scalable solutions for sensing, navigation, communication and computing. Their specialism is ‘atomic hardware’, for the generation and control of atoms at the quantum level. As a spin-out company from the University of Oxford, their technical team has engineered componentry to enable the cutting-edge of the quantum sciences, within leading neutral atom and trapped ion optical networks.
They are offering access to their technology portfolio to early adopters in academia and industry, as a route towards deploying their technology within innovative use cases. They seek partners who are building ambitious hardware systems in the quantum technologies sector, or for whom high-performance atomic systems are core to their technology. There is scope to refine their devices for challenging integration environments, in return for access to data on performance and collaboration on product improvements. The technology portfolio on offer includes:
• Laser-heated atomic beam generators, for loading ion traps and neutral atom platforms.
• Atomic beam reference cells, for absolute laser frequency stabilisation with challenging atomic materials.
• General purpose trapped ion platforms, including options for high optical connectivity.
For integration partners, this company offers modular componentry designed for scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence. The partnerships sought will be with organisations that have the relevant technical knowledge to collaborate via commercial cooperation agreements with technical assistance. - Advantages and Innovations
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This client has a portfolio of technology innovations, from the generation of atomic beams for loading quantum processors, to platforms for interacting light and matter at the quantum level. Their pioneering approach to component engineering is underpinned by leading research at the University of Oxford and comprises three core benefits:
Reliability: The components are tailored for operation at the core of the quantum hardware stack, where any interruption to performance is critical. In creating devices of maximal simplicity, they ensure silent and stable operation of subsystems for the entire lifetime of system operation.
Scaling: Their components are engineered for scalability, from proof-of-principle experiments to large-scale manufacture. In being provided as deeply modular sub-systems, they support free evolution and growth of the surrounding quantum platform. When moving to scale, this company can provide fully bespoke component sets, purpose built and optimised for unique integration environments and quantum applications.
Stability: Using advanced micro-engineering techniques for glass, they provide a range of thermal, electrical, optical and mechanical structures that can operate in the most extreme integration environments. Their systems have been deployed in ultra-high vacuum chambers at room temperature, to cryogenic platforms close to absolute zero. In having no limits to operational environment, their componentry enables users to move technology from the laboratory, into the field. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The UK company target partners with strong experience in developing quantum systems and their applications, who are suitably qualified to integrate and evaluate innovative atomic hardware components.
Partners may be technology creators and manufacturers, who rely upon the control of atomic systems to create quantum technology solutions. They may be seeking innovate hardware for the development of new prototype systems or looking to establish an improved supply chain for scalable manufacture of an existing product.
Sectors: All sectors may apply. The UK SME provide platform componentry, so are agnostic as to the industry or application of their partners. However, they expect to provide greatest value to a partner working to develop quantum computing, quantum communications, quantum sensing and quantum navigation.
Role: The partner would work with this company to incorporate components within their products. There is a requirements for deep technical interfacing between the partner and this company to ensure that the optimal solution is designed and developed for their application - Type and Size of Partner
- R&D Institution
- University
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- Other
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01002001 - Micro and Nanotechnology related to Electronics and Microelectronics
- Market keywords
- 02007011 - Manufacturing/industrial software
- 03008004 - Other electronics related (including alarm systems)
- 02006009 - Other computer services
- Sector Groups Involved
- Digital
- Targeted countries
- All countries