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This article focuses on Charles Black's leadership of C2QA in advancing scalable quantum hardware through superconducting materials research. The work addresses critical challenges in qubit performance and manufacturing compatibility essential for building practical, fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Charles Black Leads C2QA Research on Scalable Quantum Computing

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — When Charles (Chuck) Black was a doctoral student at Harvard University, he, like many other physicists, used superconducting materials as vehicles for exploring fundamental physics questions. The materials — which can conduct electricity without losing energy when cooled to very cold temperatures — had niche technology applications at the time. […]
Charles Black, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), is applying decades of materials science and semiconductor research to quantum computing. C2QA researchers are investigating superconducting materials, including tantalum, to improve qubit performance and develop quantum hardware compatible with scalable manufacturing. Black’s work at C2QA builds on research at Brookhaven’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials and IBM focused on nanoscale materials, semiconductor devices, and manufacturing. PRESS RELEASE — When Charles (Chuck) Black was a doctoral student at Harvard University, he, like many other physicists, used superconducting materials as vehicles for exploring fundamental physics questions.…
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