Microelectronics, Sensors, MEMS, & Photonics
Sandia develops and delivers microsystems and their constituent components, including:
- Semiconductor Device Fabrication (growth and patterning)
- Packaging and Test (3D integration, failure analysis, hermetic packages, through-silicon vias)
- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (actuators, slides, gears, tip/tilt)
- Microfluidics (lab on a chip, ink jet)
- Optical Sensors (photovoltaics, thermal imaging, spectroscopy)
- Microelectronics (FPGA, radiation hardened, embedded, discrete components, vacuum electronics)
- Chemical sensors (preconcentrator, separation, detection, IMS, micro-GC)
- Bio (cybernetics, identification, detection)
- Displacement Sensors (MEMS accelerometers/gyros)
- Radiation Sensors (neutron, gamma)
- Light Sources (VCSEL, OPO, LED, UV LED)
- Photonic Integrated Circuits (optical networks, communication, telecom, switching, Si photonics)
- Microoptics (displays, optical switch, phased array)
- Hybrid Microsystems (IC+MEMS/microfluidics/sensors, micro robots, portable power)
- Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials
- RF Devices (microresonator filters, SAW, high speed electronics, RFID)
- Industrial Process Monitoring and Control (quartz crystal monitors, viscosity, liquid level, temperature)
- Atom/Ion Traps (magnetometry, magnetoencephalography (MEG), quantum computing)