Four quantum tech projects win Quantum Effects Award 2026
At the Quantum Effects 2026 conference, four projects took home awards in quantum technology. Notable winners: C12 and Thales for new radar data processing on carbon nanotube quantum circuits, Fraunhofer FOKUS for software that converts Python directly into quantum gates, QSENSATO SRL for a chip that shrinks precision magnetometers, and PicoQuant for a photon-counting device streamlining quantum networking. All projects are already suitable for industry use.
- Awards covered hardware, software, sensing, and networking
- C12 and Thales mapped radar data processing onto quantum chips
- Fraunhofer FOKUS built open-source Python-to-quantum software
- QSENSATO SRL miniaturized quantum magnetometer hardware
- PicoQuant's network device tags photons with 1 ps resolution
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