Develops and markets measurement and test instruments for dynamic signal analysis, including quantum computing control systems.
Zurich Instruments AG
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About Zurich Instruments
Zurich Instruments is a company founded in 2008 as an ETH Zurich spin-off with its headquarters at Technopark Zurich, and has been part of the Rohde & Schwarz Group since 2021. The company develops and markets measurement and test instruments for dynamic signal analysis, including lock-in amplifiers from DC to 8.5 GHz, impedance analyzers, phase-locked loops, digitizers, boxcar averagers, and arbitrary waveform generators. Since 2016, the company has also been developing instrumentation for quantum computers; in 2018, the first Quantum Computing Control System (QCCS) with HDAWG, UHFQA, and PQSC was commercialized, with its second generation scaling up to 448 channels. All instruments are operated via the platform-independent control software LabOne with a web UI and APIs. Customers are academic and industrial research and development institutions in fields such as quantum technologies, optics & photonics, scanning probe microscopy, nanotechnology, sensors, semiconductors, bioengineering, and electrochemistry. In addition to its headquarters in Zurich, the company maintains subsidiaries in Shanghai and Boston.
- Site
- Zurich
- Processes
- LabOne instrument control software with web UI and APIs, Customer support and demo offerings, Development of customer-specific upgrades (field-upgradeable options)
- Materials
- LabOne Control Software, Quantum Computing Control System
- Founded
- 2008
- Industries
- Quantum Technologies, Optics & Photonics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nanotechnology & Materials Science, Sensors, Impedance Measurement
- 01
Research & Development
- 02
Instrument development (electronics & software)
- 03
Manufacturing/Test
- 04
Sales & Support
- 05
Customer-specific upgrades
Products & Technologies
LabOne Control Software
Platform-independent instrument control via web UI and various APIs for all products.
Quantum Computing Control System
Integrates HDAWG, Quantum Analyzer, and Programmable Quantum System Controller for controlling scalable qubit systems.
Locations
Zurich (Headquarters)
CHHeadquarters, development & sales
Shanghai
CNSubsidiary / Sales & Support
Boston
USSubsidiary / Sales & Support
Products
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
Reference customers
History
- 2008
Founded as a spin-off by three ETH Zurich employees
- 2009
First product HF2LI, a 50 MHz lock-in amplifier
- 2015
Introduction of the UHFLI (DC–600 MHz) and MFLI (DC–500 kHz/5 MHz)
- 2016
Start of quantum computer instrumentation development with ETH Zurich and TU Delft
- 2018
Commercialization of the first Quantum Computing Control System (QCCS)
- 2020–2023
Second QCCS generation, microwave generation up to 8.5 GHz, scaling to 448 channels
- 2021
Full acquisition by Rohde & Schwarz
- 2022
Introduction of the GHFLI (1.8 GHz) and SHFLI (8.5 GHz) lock-in amplifiers