Prof. Zito

This lecture introduces to the fundamental challenges towards the implementation of Silicon monolithic quantum processors (QPs) with integrated qubits together with control and readout ICs in FDSOI CMOS foundry technology, operating at cryogenic temperature above 1 K. Then, it focuses on a new class of circuits with record low-power consumption and compact size, namely “qubit-size” low-power ICs, as key enabling solutions for monolithic QPs scalable to a large number of qubits. These pioneering developments have drawn the attention of the academic and industrial community world-wide.

Biography:

Domenico Zito received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering (micro-nano-electronics) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Since 2023 has been a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. He has authored 150+ articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings, nine books, and book chapters. His current research interests include the design of integrated devices, circuits and systems for emerging wireless communication, contactless sensing, imaging and quantum computing applications, for which he pioneered several technology developments. To date he has participated and coordinated several EU projects in Industrial Competitiveness and Excellent Science pillars, most of them identified as successful models across the EU framework programmes.

In 2005, Prof. Zito was selected as the 1st of top-3 Europe’s innovators in wireless technology by the European Commission receiving the Mario Boella (VP Union Radio Science Institute) Prize. He was the recipient of the Start-Up Laboratory of the Year at the Irish Laboratory Awards in 2014, the IEEE Education Society Award for his Distinguished Contributions and Leadership in Engineering Education in 2015, and three best paper awards at the IEEE conferences. He has served as a TPC Member and Chair of IEEE conferences such as the European Solid-State Device/Circuit Research Conference, International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, and as Guest Editor, Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.