POEM

The POEM Technology Center is Denmark's first facility capable of producing wafers of the leading 300 mm standard. Wafers are the thin, ultra-pure slices of crystal material deposited on silicon which chips are built from, and which are grown in an advanced high-tech process.

The center is a strategic collaboration between the quantum research center Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) and the French company RIBER, and it is led by Ulrich Steegmüller.

The machine ROSIE at the heart of the new facility is specialized in making photonic chips using molecular beam epitaxy, which makes it possible to deposit extremely thin layers of atoms on wafer plates with tremendous precision and purity. It is exactly this precision and purity that makes it possible to produce quantum chips with the machine, driving NQCP's mission foward.