Centre for Applied Quantum Technology

The Center for Applied Quantum Technology (ZAQuant) at the University of Stuttgart in Vaihingen, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research building.

When planning the floor and the supporting structure, the requirements placed on the building were extraordinarily high. The reason for this is that the experiments must take place with the exclusion of low-frequency magnetic fields. All foundation blocks of the high-precision rooms as well as the test tables therefore had to be provided with reinforcement that is neither electrically conductive nor magnetizable. The optimal solution for this special application was Schöck Combar®, a reinforcement element made of glass fibre composite material. In this way, an electromagnetic decoupling of the components could be achieved and electromagnetic interference and external influences could be minimized.