Andrew Mounce is a Technical Staff Member at Sandia National Laboratories. His research experience includes condensed matter physics, semiconductor qubits, nitrogen vacancy magnetometry, and defects in wide band gap semiconductors.
Expertise
- Quantum defect discovery for communication and sensing
- Quantum sensing with solid state defects, i.e. nitrogen-vacancies in diamond and boron-vacancies in hBN
- Strongly correlated electron materials and condensed matter physics
- Quantum networking
- Quantum computation with semiconductors
- Spin resonance
- Widefield DC and AC imaging at room temperature and 4K
- Atomic force microscopy down to 4K
- Open source quantum hardware for sensing: QICK-DAWG
- Single photon emitter spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, and correlation spectroscopy, room temperature and 4K
- 405nm, 520nm, 532nm, 637nm, 737nm, and more, laser excitation
- Broad band SNSPDs 900-1500nm detection
Capabilities
Education
PhD, Physics, Northwestern University
MA, Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University
BS, Physics, Eastern Illinois University
Awards
- DoE Early Career Award, 2022
- Seaborg Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2015
- Director's Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2013
