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Cognitively Augmented Design for Quantum Technology (CAD-qt)

Program Manager: Dr. Dennis Healy

The Cognitively Augmented Design for Quantum Technology (CAD-qt) program is developing and demonstrating revolutionary robust optimization-based methodologies for the design of electronic and photonic devices whose novel functional capabilities derive from operation within the quantum regime. This program will transform the device designer's art from its current intuition-based ad-hoc exploitation of quantum effects, which provides at best incremental advances in suboptimal devices. CAD-qt will replace this with computational design tools amplifying the designer's experience and capability for systematic exploration of complex multiphysics systems.

Use of these tools is expected to dramatically reduce the time and expense required to create practical devices and systems which optimally harness quantum effects to obtain desired function. The CAD-qt approach has been validated by designing optoelectronic modulator devices with performance significantly beyond the current state of the art. CAD-qt tools will also be used to exploit the new fields of nanophotonics and plasmonics, in which metal nanostructures convert electromagnetic radiation into charge density waves.