DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.
Electronic Devices
Beyond Moore’s law: $16.7M for advanced computing projects
An even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’
The latest from IBM and now the University of Michigan is redefining what counts as a computer at the microscale.
Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum
Electron states in a semiconductor, set and changed with pulses of light, could be the 0 and 1 of future “lightwave” electronics or room-temperature quantum computers.
Organic solar cells reach record efficiency, benchmark for commercialization
The multi-layered organic solar cells will be able to curve in clothing or be transparently built into windows.
$7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain
A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists.
Lights Out
The power goes out. The aurorae stretch to the tropics. Could a major solar storm mean a year without electricity?
