Qin Wang, senior expert at RISE. Photo: Jonas Löfvendahlc
Winning the QSIP Innovation Competition 2025 helped Qin Wang and the team at RISE to further their quantum technology quest.
– It helped us significantly on the technique side, as well as on the impact side, she says.
It was a grand finale, back in January, at the Go West investment forum. Five proud winners of the QSIP Innovation Competition entered stage, one of them the RISE-team behind the exciting “GaN based micro ring resonator (MRR) for enabling room temperature quantum light source”-project.
– I am still very grateful for the opportunity to pitch our idea in front of the jury and enjoyed the discussions. I feel privileged to be involved in the competition, and especially appreciate that our idea got recognized, says Qin Wang, senior expert at RISE.
How has winning the innovation competition helped you out?
– It helped us to carry out our Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based Micro Ring Resonator demonstrators that proposed in the competition. Our communication team also made effort to outreach our prize and gained impact through RISE wide distributed network worldwide.
How have you used the winning price of 300k?
– Mainly to cover cleanroom facility usage when we fabricate the GaN based MRRs such as ebeam lithography, GaN dry etching and consumables. The nano fabrication process has quite high cost, we really appreciate this fund to enable us to carry out MRRs fabrication work in the cleanroom.
How has the competition contributed to move your project forward?
– It has helped us to establish a team with different competence for this project, such as nano fabrication, characterization, business development, which has laid a good base for moving our work to its next phase. The young engineer and researcher involved in this work got training on the quantum research field.
What is the next step for your project, looking ahead?
– We have opportunity to further develop our concept and work by our ongoing Vinnova granted Sweden-Singapore collaboration project. RISE has gained planning grant on Vinnova excellence clusters on quantum technology; we will have chance to team with more partners through the excellence cluster to aim larger scale grant on this topic, says Qin Wang.
Four facts!
• The competition
Organised by the Swedish quantum network QSIP, with Chalmers Industriteknik as host organisation, and funded by Vinnova. Total prize sum of 1,5 MSEK.
• The winners
RISE, pitched by Qin WangAnyo Labs, pitched by Jalil Mahdizadehjalil
Svenska Laserfabriken, pitched by Staffan Tjörnhammar
LiNPhA, pitched by Alessandro Prencipe
RISE, pitched by Michael Salter
• The project
Qin Wangs project works on enabling new solutions within cyber-secure data communication with focus on quantum communication in telecom band and enabling qubits for quantum computing and quantum network applications.
• The benefits
The GaN MRR enables getting controllable entangled photon pairs with a better figure of merit in comparison with other MRRs, thanks to GaNs wide bandgap.