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Ensuring the Physical Security of Microelectronics

DARPA works to protect the provenance of hardware to guard the vital technology.

Some of DARPA’s research into microelectronics is creating automatic security mechanisms integrated into the design of microchips, which are smaller than a grain of sand. Connect world/Shutterstock

National Science Foundation Pushes the Quantum Edge

Forthcoming technology institutes could help define the future of science.

The NSF’s Quantum Leap initiative includes a number of programs aimed at advancing the quantum technology research and helping the United States maintain a competitive edge over other nations. Nicolle R. Fuller/ NSF

Detecting Microelectronic Defects

Optical methods find deficiencies in chips that are becoming smaller and smaller.

The need from the semiconductor manufacturing industry to be able to validate circuits will only grow in the future, says Lynford Goddard, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Shutterstock/fotografos

Crawling Robots on the Brain

Researchers unleash millions of microrobots from one silicon chip.

Using traditional processes for manufacturing silicon chips, researchers can fabricate 1 million nanosized robots on a single chip. The robots may one day crawl around inside the body to collect data on the brain or the spinal column. Shutterstock/solarseven

Security Homesteads the Chip

Bad things may come in small packages, so experts safeguard the microelectronics supply chain.

Disruptive by Design: What the Military Can Learn From Swedish TV

From a military standpoint, the base architecture of Swedish TV could help evolve our networks to handle next-generation requirements for higher-level data streams and keep larger data sets further downstream to provide more data for operational awareness in a complex battlespace.