Lee Bassett, assistant professor in the department of electrical & systems engineering at Penn, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his proposal, “Coupling Spin, Light, and Charge for Quantum Information Processing and Storage in Diamond.”

The goal of Dr. Bassett’s CAREER award is to explore new ways to control single electron spins in diamond, which could form the essential building blocks for quantum computers, secure quantum communication links and other chip-scale quantum technologies. It will also support the construction and deployment of hands-on demonstrations of quantum coherence, in which K-12 students and the general public can actually see quantum physics with their naked eyes in room-temperature devices.