DESC0026541↗

Name: DESC0026541: Identifying and Eliminating Defects in the Sapphire Substrate That Cause Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits Using Thermal Laser Epitaxy
Creator: SpendQuery

IDENTIFYING AND ELIMINATING DEFECTS IN THE SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATE THAT CAUSE DECOHERENCE IN SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS USING THERMAL LASER EPITAXY

Project Grant (B) · Department of Energy · to Cornell University (UEI G56PUALJ3KT5) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$1.61M1 action

Period2026-08-04 → 2026-08-04first to last action

What it is

Program: Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (Assistance Listing 81.049)
Where the work is: Tompkins, NY · district NY-19
Topics: quantum

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2026$1.61M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subrecipients: where the money went next

No subawards reported for this award. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; many awards have none.

Every action

1 action since 2026-08-04. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Amendment	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-08-04		New award	$1.61M	IDENTIFYING AND ELIMINATING DEFECTS IN THE SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATE THAT CAUSE DECOHERENCE IN SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS USING THERMAL LASER EPITAXY

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗