News
[10/30/2023] First Lab Paper!
Adam, Ulises and Yu-En posted the group's first paper on arXiv today: "Cavity-coupled telecom atomic source in silicon" describing the Purcell enhancement of a single T center in a silicon nanophotonic cavity. The work uses photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy to probe single T centers and analyzes cavity-QED of the coupled system. This is a major step towards utilizing single T centers in silicon for quantum information processing and quantum networking applications.
[Update 3/15/2024] Published in Nature Communications!
[6/23/2023] NSF CAREER Award!
Songtao has been awarded the NSF CAREER award to study coherent control, measurement, and entanglement of single T-center qubits! Thanks NSF!
[2/8/2023] The third cryostat!
We have installed our third 3K cryostat in the lab. This cryostat system will be mainly used for fluorescence spectroscopy!
[11/30/2022] Yu En joins the group!
We are glad to welcome a new group member: Yu En Wong. Yu En obtained his BS degree in 2022 from National Taiwan University. He will work on the T-center spin-photon interfaces.
[7/31/2022] Waiting for single photons!
We have installed our SNSPDs and are ready to detect single photons!
[6/8/2022] We are cold!
Our first cryostat has been installed and operating at the base temperature!
[6/6/2022] Construction ends!
We moved into our newly renovated lab space in Brockman Hall B08! Let's start to do science!
[3/24/2022] Songtao and Junichiro Received Rice Faculty Initiatives Fund!
Songtao and Junichiro have been awarded Rice Faculty Initiatives Fund to seed the exploration of photon-mediated interactions for T-centers in a silicon nanophotonic cavity!
[3/4/2022] Lab Renovation Finally Started!
After long wait for obtaining the city construction permit, lab renovation now gets full thrust to move on! Stay tuned!
[9/24/2021] Welcome, Adam!
We are delighted to welcome a new group member: Adam Johnston. Adam obtained his BS degree in 2020 from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US. He is joining the quantum defects in silicon effort.
[8/17/2021] Welcome, Ulises!
We are delightful to have our first graduate student, Ulises Felix Rendon, to join the lab! Ulises received his BS and MS degrees in 2020 from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is working on the quantum defects in silicon.
[7/1/2021] Hello Quantum World!
The Chen Lab is now open at Rice ECE and we are part of the Rice Quantum Initiative! Our lab is located in Brockman Hall for Physics B08! [Rice ECE news][Rice Story][Rice Engineering Story]