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Globally, academic researchers looking to commercialize their high-tech discoveries begin their journey to market with nanofabricated prototypes. However, upon receiving their first investment, these startups often need more time to align with the roadmaps that fulfill investor and stakeholder expectations. In light of this, they seek a broad, stable, and quick process to support the development of their nanofabricated technologies.

Committed to commercializing emerging technologies, ConScience helps R&D teams across the academic and industrial landscape make significant micro or nanofabrication progress through its state-of-the-art clean room technology. An inventor dedicated to creating a sustainable tomorrow, ConScience leverages its knowledge and expertise in nanofabrication, physics, chemistry, and biology to provide improved lead time and higher flexibility for fabrication processes.

ConScience uses the nanofabrication laboratories powered by Myfab, the Swedish research infrastructure for micro and nanofabrication. An open network of the four largest cleanrooms in Sweden, Myfab enables researchers, entrepreneurs, engineers, startups, companies, and students to readily access nanofabrication tools and equipment. This infrastructure of leading-edge equipment is the technical basis through which ConScience provides nanofabrication to more than 40 academic research groups worldwide, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Caltech, and helps startups, larger companies, and research groups in scaling their innovation.

This prowess is attributed to ConScience’s excellence in electron beam lithography, quantum computing, nano- and microfluidics, III/V processing, and standard cleanroom processes. It paves the way for R&D teams to unravel their nanofabrication ideas through unparalleled accessibility, education, training, and processing services.

“We are a sustainable business involved with many joint and partly EU-funded projects, leading Swedish research institutes, and a growing clientele across multiple continents,” says Joachim Fritzsche, co-founder and CEO of ConScience.

The essence of ConScience’s success lies in its team of professionals. Fritzsche, a seasoned researcher and physicist, dreamt from a young age of making a discovery that would contribute to saving the world. Following this tenet, he brings his nanofluidic and microfluidic expertise to build fluidicsdriven solutions across various sustainable contexts. Through ConScience, Fritzsche wants to equip R&D groups and businesses passionate about making the world better with nanofabricated tools to boost their progress.

Another team member with an extensive scientific background is Marcus Rommel, who uses his experience as a physicist, electron beam lithographer, and quantum technology fabrication engineer to head some of ConScience’s most active projects. Other subject matter experts on DSI’s team include Svetlana Alekseeva, Ph.D., a renowned materials scientist and engineer with a well-documented background in nanoplasmonics and nano-optics, and Olga Serebrennikova, Ph.D., a physicist and nanotechnologist with firsthand experience in building complex III/V-based technologies, some of which are nowadays on space missions. Collectively, ConScience’s highly skilled professionals represent its commitment to building a multi-faceted team with distinct scientific backgrounds that consistently meet clients’ micro and nanofabrication objectives.

Substantiating ConScience’s impact is a success story where a developer of quantum computers faced problems within their supply of qubits. Until recently, they received qubits from their academic research partner. However, due to limited resources, the research group struggled to create a stable process and scale it to a larger wafer size, as academic research targets beyond state-of-the-art development rather than reproducibility of engineering and establishment of stable operations. To mitigate this, the client approached ConScience, who rapidly devised a secure supply of custom-designed qubits by establishing a fabrication process capable of adhering to the tight specs. Ultimately, they could efficiently scale wafer sizes and achieve their desired outcomes.
Similarly, ConScience addresses other problems driven by the limited number of foundries, striving to mitigate three emerging markets related to quantum technologies. It first prioritizes the technology segment for making large complex devices and research-dedicated quantum computing stacks. The other two priorities are market pulls, where ConScience delivers simple auxiliary devices to verify setup, amplifier, filter measurements, and foundry services that need cuttingedge fabrication design and measurements.

ConScience’s services are primarily focused on market pull and will continue to support the development of superior nanotechnology-based solutions in collaboration with leading players. One example is Suckjoon Jun, who invented the mother machine concept at Harvard and today outsources to ConScience the next-generation nanofabrication of his complex fluidics that revolutionized systems biology.

Moving forward, ConScience will continue supporting academic and industrial initiatives to proactively and sustainably achieve their micro and nanofabrication prospects.