Nathalie de Leon

Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone
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Office
B320 Engineering Quadrangle
Education
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
  • B.S., Stanford University, 2004
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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: 

    • APS Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing 2023
    • 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
    Research Areas
    Applied Physics
    Materials & Devices
    Photonics
    Quantum Engineering