Pick & Place: a Nanoassembly Process to Scale Carbon Nanotube Quantum Chip Manufacturing
14th June 2026
Pick & Place is a core building block of how C12 envisions the scalable manufacturing of carbon nanotube quantum processors. A carbon nanotube is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Placing one on a chip is like placing a hair on a surface the size of Paris, accurate to within a few streets. By introducing an intermediate assembly step that decouples nanotube growth from chip fabrication, the process brings significantly more flexibility and modularity to C12’s fabrication flow, while addressing one of the hardest challenges in quantum hardware manufacturing: qubit variability.