Electronics

In the area of electronics, which underlies a lot of our work, we investigate electronic component technologies and their design and fabrication techniques.

Overview

In the area of electronics, which underlies much of our work, we investigate electronic component technologies and their design and fabrication techniques. Electronics is a fundamental enabling technology for commercial and military systems. The discipline focuses on emerging technologies and design techniques that facilitate the miniaturization of electronic systems and their associated cost and power dissipation. Rapid advances in electronics have resulted in remarkable advances in electronic systems.

MITRE leverages commercial electronics capabilities while providing value in niche technologies of interest. Projects address architectural design of microelectronic systems, design methodologies, circuit design, and electronic system specification. MITRE also has a strong program in development of nanoscale and molecular systems.

MITRE's Nanosystems Group focuses on systems engineering that starts at the tiny molecular scale and builds up from there. Its work includes the development of systems such as nanoelectronic computers, nano-enabled power systems, nanosensors, and millimeter-scale robots. The resulting insights are typically used to offer wide-ranging assistance to the U.S. government's nanotechnology efforts. This assistance includes collaboration with officials in planning major nanotechnology R&D programs, as well as in tackling key technical tasks on the path to program success—e.g., the simulation, design, and physical testing of nanotechnology-enabled system prototypes. The group recently had a breakthrough—published in the international physics journal Physical Review A—revealing that rules much like those from traditional, classical physics govern key goings-on in the "nano world" of atoms and molecules.

Related Information

Articles and News

• Millimeter-scale Robots: Small in Stature, Big in Capability
• MITRE Helps Illuminate the Rising Area of Metamaterials
• Nanopower: Big Energy for Tiny Systems
• Dielectric Spectroscopy: A Fishy Way to Detect Explosives
• Nonlinear Optics: Doing the Impossible with Light
• When Robots Go to War
• Immersive Vision Gives the Best Control to Military Robots
• Beyond Breadcrumbs: Leader-Follower Shows the Way

Technical Papers and Presentations

• Optimization of the Bandwidth of Electrically Small Planar Antennas
• Performance Simulation and Analysis of a CMOS/Nano Hybrid Nanoprocessor System
• Clocking Nanocircuits for Nanocomputers and Other Nanoelectronic Systems

Websites

• Nanotechnology at MITRE: The Integrated Nanosystems Website
• 2009 Innovation Exchange
• 2008 Innovation Exchange: Emerging Technologies

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