Kevin Roccapriore is the president and co-founder of AtomQ, Inc. AtomQ was started through his work as an R&D associate with collaboration from the user program at ORNL in the data nanoanalytics group in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE user facility. His research has focused on combining the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) with both machine intelligence and custom hardware control to automate, understand, and precisely control the interaction of the electron beam with matter at the atomic scale with a focus on tuning optical properties. Prior to his professional career, he received his bachelor’s in food science from the University of Florida in 2011, as well as a master’s (2014) and doctorate (2018) in physics from the University of North Texas. Through his professional experience, he has had both fruitful academic and industry collaborations, enabling successful use of
STEM to identify and target single atoms in real time and manipulate matter literally atom by atom, forming the basis for AtomQ’s technology.
Represented Organization
AtomQ
Key Innovation
AtomQ’s key innovation is deterministic creation of identical atomic quantum defects in the solid state at scale. No other approach in creation of qubits – the fundamental building block of a quantum computer – is both truly atomic and compatible with silicon technologies. Due to the precision and control of the distribution of electrons in aberration corrected electron microscopes, AtomQ is able to precisely deliver electrons in space and time, allowing to build identical structures atom by atom. For these reasons, we believe AtomQ is the first of its kind to have the potential to build truly scalable quantum computers.
ORNL Principal Investigator
- Travis Humble - Director, Quantum Science Center, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate
- Andrew Lupini - Group Leader, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, Physical Sciences Directorate