Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM)

The Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) is a National Science Foundation Science-Technology Center (STC), headquartered at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The Museum of Science, MIT, and Howard University are principal partners of CIQM, which launched in October 2013 and is funded through 2023. Other partners include Mount Holyoke College, Wellesley College, Bunker Hill Community College, Prince George’s Community College, Gallaudet University, and The Learning Center for the Deaf. CIQM researchers explore new quantum materials for use in devices that promise to revolutionize communication, sensing, and information systems. These materials include graphene, other 2D crystal layers, topological insulators, superconductors, and color centers in diamond and other solid state crystals

The Museum’s Strategic Projects Group provides education and public outreach for the Center, as well as science communication workshops and coaching for its students. CIQM co-sponsors the Museum’s annual NanoDays with a Quantum Leap, the Quantum Matters^™ Science Communication Competition, The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show, Museum presentations, the NanoNerds YouTube Channel, and films and podcasts on quantum science and technology