10/03/2026
The physics of is ready.
The engineering ecosystem is not ready yet.
That's the honest takeaway from our February webinar with our dear experts from Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) and the Jozef Stefan Institute, who are building centre-based systems for quantum navigation and materials characterisation.
Experts have demonstrated NV-centre gyroscopes detecting rotations as small as 10 microradians per second, and nanodiamond sensors characterising materials that couldn't be grown into single-crystal form using any other technique.
These are real results, from real labs.
The gap isn't in science, it’s the engineering surrounding those experiments: timing and synchronisation, RF/microwave generation, DAQ pipelines, firmware, optical systems, all of which have to work together, reliably, at every run.
Most quantum teams are under-resourced in exactly this area.
As Dr Jaka Pribošek put it:
"𝙊𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨-𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣-𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚."
The community agrees NV centres are among the strongest candidates for large-scale industrialisation. Room-temperature operation, chip-scale potential, and a maturing knowledge base put them ahead of technologies that require cryogenic or vacuum conditions.
The engineering infrastructure to cross that gap is what needs building now.
Read the full recap to see what SAL and IJS shared about how they're approaching it:
Learn how Cosylab turns quantum gyroscopes from lab prototypes to real-world systems with robust embedded control and NV-center tech.
