Cristina completed her PhD degree at the University of Surrey in 2006, where she worked as a research fellow at Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute before joining NPL in 2012. At Surrey, her research work focused on applying scanning probe microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy to study the electronic properties of low-dimensional systems for nanoscale interconnects and non-volatile memory applications based on phase-change materials.
At NPL, Cristina leads the area of science concerned with the atomic scale metrology and control of atom-based systems in solid-state platforms. The focus is on point defects, colour centres, donor spin qubits in semiconductors, for the exploration of new areas of condensed matter physics, such as strongly correlated electron systems, and associated applications in quantum computing. We are developing and applying state-of-the-art precision measurement tools, such as low-temperature 4-probe scanning tunnelling microscopy and QPlus atomic force microscopy, for the characterisation of electrical transport, charge stability and spin coherence properties associated with qubits in solid-state platforms.
Our work is done in collaboration with leading quantum technology companies, universities in the UK, USA and Europe, and other national metrology institutes.
Areas of interest
- Deterministically engineered defects in solid-state platforms for quantum technology applications
- Electronic, optical, and structural properties of materials at the atomic and nano scale, and their applications in quantum computing and quantum communications
- Excitonic effects and quantum phenomena in atomically thin heterostructures and quantum materials
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