Project Details
Research Sponsorship Agreement includes funding requirements of CAD $3,000,000 over three years with the University of Toronto which secures the right to own an exclusive 100% licencing interest of any developed Intellectual Property (“IP”) under the research sponsorship Agreement.
A global exclusive license of 100% of the developed IP will be held by Delta Gold Technologies. The University will hold a 1.5% royalty on Net Sales.
Professor Harry Ruda, the Principal Investigator, will play a key role in controlling the aspects that the team will investigate. The current proposal builds on previous work that demonstrated the applications of nano-scale gold and other materials in Quantum Computing. The next step will be to better develop this technology with a goal towards utilising special materials to improve the scalability and stability of a qubit.
Lead Investigator
Professor Harry Ruda
Harry E. Ruda received the B.Sc. degree (with distinction) from Imperial College of Science and Technology, UK in 1983, and PhD degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA in 1982. He was awarded an IBM Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, during which he worked on one of the first theories of electron transport in quantum nanostructures. From 1984 to 1989 he was a Senior Research Scientist working at 3M Corporation where he was a key member of their II-VI semiconductor blue laser team. In 1989, he joined the MSE department at the University of Toronto, crossappointed to ECE. In 1997 he was appointed as the Director of University of Toronto’s.
Centre for Nanotechnology. He has published over 250 publications in internationally refereed journals (with >2,800 SCI citations), co-authored 4 books and has 14 patents. Professor Ruda’s research interests focus on the fabrication, modelling understanding of behaviour of quantum functional nanostructures and their applications to nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.
Global Post Doctoral Fellows with specific knowledge in nano-technology highly relevant to the already developed IP have expressed interest in joining the team working on this technology once year 1 funding has been secured