Q-MIC second consortium meeting

Q-MIC partners gather for the 2^nd consortium meeting in Milan

From March 20-21st, consortium members of the Q-MIC project gathered at the Politecnico di Milano to discuss the advances of the project and set the future steps for the continuation of the initiative.

Officially launched at the beginning of October of 2018, the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) project Q-MIC (Quantum-enhanced on-chip interference microscopy) has been working for the past 6 months on moving forward in the development of a new on-chip differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope based on an unconventional birefringence lens-free configuration, with the latest quantum light sources and single-photon image sensors.

During the two-day meeting, the project members presented the latest advances and achievements on the project, discussing the needs, concerns and solutions that have emerged within the areas of components development, system integration, system specifications, bio detection and imaging applications as well as management issues and communication and exploitation actions.

This three-year FET project is being coordinated by ICREA Professor at ICFO Valerio Pruneri, in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (OEAW), Politecnico di Milano, University of Glasgow and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering together with the companies Carl Zeiss and Micro Photon devices.