News and Press Releases

Yasuo Yoshida from Kanazawa University was selected as the inaugural QNS Collaborative Fellow by our external proposal review committee earlier this year. Yoshida and his team arrived at QNS last week and have begun their collaboration with QNS PI Soohyon Phark and his team on the proposed project. A warm …

QNS PI, Soo-hyon Phark, receives the 57th Science Day Commemorative Minister’s Commendation award for his innovative quantum research. Congratulations to QNS PI, Soo-hyon Phark, for receiving the 57th Science Day Commemorative Minister’s Commendation award for his innovative quantum research. Through his work for IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience and Ewha …

QNS Outreach Manager Sunny Kim Receives the Ministry Award for Pioneering Science Outreach Sunny Kim of the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) has been awarded a commendation from the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT for her contributions to leading science outreach and promoting research results. She was honored …

QNS’s newest Group Leader, Lukas Spree, has been awarded the 2024 IBS Young Scientist Fellowship. Our colleague and latest addition to the QNS group leaders, Lukas Spree, has been awarded the IBS Young Scientist Fellowship. Congratulations are in order! The Fellowship provides Lukas with the opportunity to finance and carry …

Quantum nanoscience researchers pioneer groundbreaking atom-by-atom qubit platform. QNS researchers have accomplished a groundbreaking step forward in quantum information science. In partnership with teams from Japan, Spain, and the US, they created a novel electron-spin qubit platform, assembled atom-by-atom on a surface. This breakthrough was published in the journal Science …

You might not have ever felt the vibration caused by cars passing in and out of a parking lot next to a building. Most people don’t even feel the vibration that occurs when flushing the toilet. However, some laboratories cannot tolerate even these minor vibrations that humans cannot feel. “The …

He received the prize for his decades of pioneering work in the study of quantum spins on surfaces on an atomic scale and the further development of scanning tunneling microscopy, which can image individual atoms more precisely. Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinrich, director of the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience and …

You might not have ever felt the vibration caused by cars passing in and out of a parking lot next to a building. Most people don’t even feel the vibration that occurs when flushing the toilet. However, some laboratories cannot tolerate even these minor vibrations that humans cannot feel. Sunny …

100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair – Tae-in Yoon (Reporter, Kids Science Donga) What if one meter is reduced by one tenth nine times? One billionth of a meter is called 1 nm (nanometer). It’s a small world, about 1/100,000 the thickness of a human hair …

QNS has received the highest rating from the first national 5-Year Review. It is an honor for QNS to receive the highest rating in this evaluation since it was very challenging for QNS to have such results. QNS built the facilities and equipment from scratch while also conducting research for …