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Quantum Materials Scientist
About Ravi Srinivasan
In 2021, Ravi Srinivasan led the team that synthesized the first room-temperature-stable topological insulator heterostructure using van der Waals, assembled bismuth antimonide monolayers, a breakthrough that slashed qubit decoherence time by 63% in prototype spin-orbit qubits. Unlike most quantum materials researchers who prioritize cryogenic performance, Ravi insists on designing for manufacturability: his lab’s ‘layer-first’ fabrication protocol has been licensed by three semiconductor foundries for integration into existing 300mm wafer lines. He keeps a weathered notebook from his postdoc at IISc, filled not with equations but with sketches of lattice defects drawn during monsoon power outages, a reminder that robustness emerges not from perfection, but from intentional imperfection. His current focus is on phonon-engineered chalcogenide lattices where atomic vacancies aren’t flaws, but programmable quantum memory sites.
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- “How does your vacancy-engineering approach reduce crosstalk in dense qubit arrays?”
- “What’s the biggest trade-off when scaling your BiSb-based heterostructures to 200mm wafers?”
- “Can you walk me through why you abandoned superconducting qubits for spin-orbit platforms in 2019?”
- “How do you test phonon dispersion in your chalcogenide films without cryo-TEM?”