KAUST QUANTUM FOUNDRY
From design to fabrication: reproducible and scalable quantum hardware.
ABOUT THE FOUNDRY
KAUST Quantum Foundry accelerates the path from concept to deployable quantum photonic hardware. Bringing together KAUST's three Core Labs: Cleanrooms, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Characterization. It runs a closed design-build-verify loop based on simulation-driven layouts, qualified nanofabrication, and wafer-to-device metrology. The Foundry delivers process design kits, baseline recipes, and acceptance reports to ensure reproducibility and scale for quantum sensors, secure communications, and on-chip control. Through shared access, training and industry-ready workflows, it anchors Saudi Arabia's quantum ecosystem and turns laboratory breakthroughs into manufacturing technologies.
Our Steering Committee
Prof. Kenneth Kennedy
SC Member, Director of the Nanofabrication Core Lab
Capabilities
We translate designs into quantum-grade devices via thin-film deposition, lithography, etching, and packaging. The lab maintains process libraries and SPC to scale from single die to wafer runs. The Class 1000 cleanroom offers qualified tools with PCMs and releases baseline recipes for the foundry.
High-Perforemance Computing (HPC) allows us to model materials and devices (DFT/FDTD/TCAD) to set first-pass process targets. We run inverse-design/optimization to compress design cycles and PDK iteration. Moreover, we also host versioned data/compute pipelines linking design, fab and test.
State-of-the-art characterisation tools close the loop with multiscale metrology: SEM/TEM/AFM, Raman/PL/TRPL, g²(τ), ODMR. We deliver in-line and post-fab QC, mapping structure as a crucial step for PDK updates. Acceptance reports, gate process release, and drive yield learning.
NEWS
KAUST establishes Quantum Foundry for national quantum hardware development in Saudi Arabia
KAUST has launched the KAUST Quantum Foundry to advance Saudi Arabia’s development of reproducible, commercial quantum hardware through shared access to advanced quantum cleanrooms.
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KAUST CORE LABS
KAUST hosts a wide range of sophisticated instruments and world-class facilities that students can access, including the Prototyping and Product Development Core Lab, and laboratories involving robotics and embedded systems, sensors, intelligent autonomous systems and biotechnology. Specific labs will be identified based on the curriculum and individual projects.
ABOUT KAUST
Established in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university dedicated to addressing major scientific and technological challenges. It is recognized globally for excellence, ranked #1 worldwide in citations per faculty, #1 in Saudi Arabia and #1 in the Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings for both 2023 and 2024, and #4 in Western Asia according to Nature Index 2022. With a community representing over 120 nationalities, KAUST fosters international collaboration and advances research in health, environment, energy, and digital technologies, serving as a leading global center of knowledge. The university is ranked #112 globally, has achieved 17 years of excellence, and maintains Top-20 supercomputing performance.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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