KAUST QUANTUM FOUNDRY

About the Foundry


KAUST Quantum Foundry accelerates the path from concept to deployable quantum photonic hardware. Bringing together KAUST's three Core Labs: Cleanrooms, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Characterization. It runs a closed design-build-verify loop based on simulation-driven layouts, qualified nanofabrication, and wafer-to-device metrology. The Foundry delivers process design kits, baseline recipes, and acceptance reports to ensure reproducibility and scale for quantum sensors, secure communications, and on-chip control. Through shared access, training and industry-ready workflows, it anchors Saudi Arabia's quantum ecosystem and turns laboratory breakthroughs into manufacturing technologies.

 

Cleanroom

  

We translate designs into quantum-grade devices via thin-film deposition, lithography, etching, and packaging. The lab maintains process libraries and SPC to scale from single die to wafer runs. The Class 1000 cleanroom offers qualified tools with PCMs and releases baseline recipes for the foundry.

 

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HPC

 

High-Perforemance Computing (HPC) allows us to model materials and devices (DFT/FDTD/TCAD) to set first-pass process targets. We run inverse-design/optimization to compress design cycles and PDK iteration. Moreover, we also host versioned data/compute pipelines linking design, fab and test.

 

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Characterization

 

State-of-the-art characterisation tools close the loop with multiscale metrology: SEM/TEM/AFM, Raman/PL/TRPL, g²(τ), ODMR. We deliver in-line and post-fab QC, mapping structure as a crucial step for PDK updates. Acceptance reports, gate process release, and drive yield learning.

 

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