Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone
609-258-5694
Email
npdeleon@princeton.edu
Assistant
Katie Gallagher
Office
B320 Engineering Quadrangle
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/deleonlab
Degrees
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
B.S., Stanford University, 2004
Advisee(s):
Alexander Abulnaga
James J. Allred
Ray Chang
Kai-Hung Cheng
Sean Karg
Marjana Mahdia
Russell McLellan
Sounak Mukherjee
Alex Pakpour-Tabrizi
Lila Rodgers
Jared Rovny
Nana Shumiya
Zhiyang Yuan
Zihuai Zhang
Haimei Zhang
Bio/Description
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associated Faculty in the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM)
The de Leon group is focused on building quantum hardware with color centers in wide bandgap materials, such as NV centers in diamond. These color centers act as artificial atoms in the solid state, and can have remarkable optical and spin properties.
We aim to explore fundamental device physics, materials engineering, and nanophotonics to gain full control over color centers to build them into scalable quantum devices, with the large-scale technological goals of realizing quantum networks and nanoscale sensors. Complementarily, we will search for new color centers for applications in quantum information processing and quantum sensing. In the near term, this toolkit will enable the exploration of fundamental quantum optics, magnetic interactions, and many body physics.
Our lab is highly interdisciplinary, spanning optics and photonics, surface science and materials engineering, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, nanofabrication, and cryogenics.
Selected Publications
Google Scholar Profile
Honors and Awards:?
DOE Early Career Award 2018
DARPA Young Faculty Award 2018
NSF CAREER Award 2018
Sloan Research Fellow in Physics 2017
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator 2017
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Research Areas
Applied Physics
Materials & Devices
Photonics
Quantum Engineering