ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

This program element is budgeted in the Applied Research budget activity because its objective is to develop electronics that make a wide range of military applications possible. Advances in microelectronic device technologies, including digital, analog, photonic and MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) devices, continue to have significant impact in support of defense technologies for improved weapons effectiveness, improved intelligence capabilities and enhanced information superiority. The Electronics Technology program element supports the continued advancement of these technologies through the development of performance driven advanced capabilities, exceeding that available through commercial sources, in electronic, optoelectronic and MEMS devices, semiconductor device design and fabrication techniques, and new materials and material structures for device applications. A particular focus for this work is the exploitation of chip-scale heterogeneous integration technologies that permit the optimization of device and integrated module performance. The phenomenal progress in current electronics and computer chips will face the fundamental limits of silicon technology in the early 21st century, a barrier that must be overcome in order for progress to continue. Another thrust of the program element will explore alternatives to silicon-based electronics in the areas of new electronic devices, new architectures to use them, new software to program the systems, and new methods to fabricate the chips. Approaches include nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, molecular electronics, spin-based electronics, quantum-computing, new circuit architectures optimizing these new devices, and new computer and electronic systems architectures. Projects will investigate the feasibility, design, and development of powerful information technology devices and systems using approaches for electronic device designs that extend beyond traditional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) scaling, including non silicon-based materials technologies to achieve low cost, reliable, fast and secure computing, communication, and storage systems. This investigation is aimed at developing new capabilities from promising directions in the design of information processing components using both inorganic and organic substrates, designs of components and systems leveraging quantum effects and chaos, and innovative approaches to computing designs incorporating these components for such applications as low cost seamless pervasive computing, ultra-fast computing, and sensing and actuation devices. This project has five major thrusts: Electronics, Photonics, MicroElectroMechanical Systems, Architectures, Algorithms, and other Electronic Technology research.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0602716E_2_0400_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2011: Decrease reflects reductions for the Section 8117 Economic Adjustment, excessive growth, internal below threshold reprogrammings, rescissions and the SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2013: Increase reflects minor repricing.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Circuit Boards
• Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
• Electronics
• Electronics Industry
• Electronics Laboratories
• Field Effect Transistors
• Frequency
• Information Processing
• Infrared Detectors
• Lasers
• Manufacturing
• Materials
• Metal Oxide Semiconductors
• Microelectromechanical Systems
• Radio Frequency
• Semiconductor Devices
• Semiconductors

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
• Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.

Technology Areas

• Biotechnology
• Microelectronics
• Quantum Computing