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Electronic Chips Heal After Laser Blasts

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PASADENA, Calif., March 13, 2013 — Just as a Christmas tree’s lights go out when a single bulb dies, so, too, do electronic chips fail to work when a component stops functioning. A new self-healing integrated chip, however, could change all that, recovering from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure in microseconds. Engineers at California Institute of Technology have demonstrated this self-healing capability in tiny power amplifiers. The researchers destroyed various parts of the amplifiers’ chips by zapping them multiple times with a high-power laser, then observed...Read full article

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    Published: March 2013
    Ali HajimiriAmericasASICCaliforniaCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCaltechCommunicationsimmune systemindustrialKaushik Dasguptalaser blastsLasersMicroscopyResearch & Technologyself-healing integrated circuitsSensors & DetectorsSteven Bowers

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