To enable new and increasingly powerful macrosystem capabilities for critical national systems, the Nanodevices and Microsystems Research Foundation works to increase understanding of physical phenomena across the quantum- to microscale continuum, create novel nano- and microscale devices, achieve new methods of integration, and realize novel microsystems-based complex systems.

Why our work matters

Microelectronic circuits have a strong history of dramatically improving the performance, functionality, and reliability of national security platforms. Adding microscale sensors, photonics, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to such platforms enables even further improvements to ensure a more robust national security profile.

Our unique value

• Extensive scientific and engineering expertise in areas such as material growth and process development for silicon and compounds, device and product design, advanced packaging technologies for 3-D integration, and reliability and failure analysis expertise
• The Microsystems Engineering Sciences and Applications (MESA) Complex, a 400,000-square-foot facility designed to integrate the scientific disciplines needed to produce functional, robust, and integrated microsystems
• MESA Fabrication Facilities, which provide high-mix, low-volume production of custom integrated microsystem products and support for research; technology advancement and maturation; and small-lot, fast-turn prototyping

Our approach