Nanodevices and Microsystems

Bishnu Khanal, Sandia R&D manager, leans down to work on an ion trapping system Luke Yates and Jack Flicker look at a tiny gallium nitride wafter

Precisely controlling materials, devices and information is critical to enabling science, technology, and industry. At Sandia, we are enabling new and increasingly powerful capabilities for critical national systems through our research increasing understanding of physical phenomena across the quantum- to microscale continuum, creating novel nano- and microscale devices, achieving new methods of integration, and realizing novel microsystems-based complex systems.  

Why Our Work Matters 

Sandia’s research in these areas is helping to create radiation-hardened microsystems technologies, novel remote and in-situ sensors, advanced radio frequency (RF) devices and RF microsystems, and power electronics and energy conversion innovations for use across numerous enduring and emerging national security missions. 

Our Unique Value 

Sandia has 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. 

Sandia leverages 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. 

The MESA Fabrication Facilities 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. 

Recent Highlights

Novel material and device concepts previously took years for iteration. Discoveries in this LDRD project will...

Underfilling is a widely used manufacturing process that helps stabilize and reinforce solder joints in electronic...

Data-heavy workflows such as AI require in to increase system efficiency. Work on this memory computing,...

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Nanodevices and Microsystems Related Research Facilities

CINT is a DOE/Office of Science NSRC user facility devoted to scientific principles that govern nanoscale materials.

MANTL comprises four buildings with office and lab space and Sandia’s Plating Research Laboratory. MANTL research focuses on mechanical and electrical engineering, chemistry, radiography plating, and more.

MESA integrates scientific disciplines to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems. Today researchers pursue advanced concepts that integrate not only electronics at the micro scale, but embody sensors, photonics, and MEMS...

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Related Intellectual Property

Featured Licensing Opportunities

Microelectronics & MEMS • By addressing thermal expansion mismatch, this innovative molecular system can enhance polymer durability for a wide range of applications. Business Problem Polymers are lightweight, cost-effective, easily molded, and have good...

Microelectronics & MEMS • A new method of additive manufacturing that leverages fluidics and electrochemistry to rapidly produce high-quality parts with engineering materials. Existing methods of metal 3D printing are ineffective in creating micro-resolution...

Microelectronics & MEMS • A computing hardware approach that aspires to emulate the brain. Ruthenium-based Prussian blue analogue for artificial synapses have transformational potential in neuroprosthetics, brain disease diagnostics, and ubiquitous edge computing. In...

Microelectronics & MEMS • An oxygen vacancy Electrochemical Random Access Memory (ECRAM) for neuromorphic computing. Artificial neural networks have become increasingly relevant and desired in today’s market; however, they are extremely energy intensive. Neuromorphic...

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Patents
Patents & Applications
300 Results
Patent Title Patent Number Grant Date
Low Power Sensor for NOx Detection 11,573,217 02/07/2023
PIEZOELECTRIC DEFORMABLE PHOTONIC DEVICES 11,569,431 01/31/2023
MINIATURIZED VACUUM PACKAGE AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME 11,551,921 01/10/2023
ENHANCED MICROFABRICATION USING ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES 11,549,903 01/10/2023
COMPACT LASER SOURCE WITH FREQUENCY MODULATORS GENERATING MULTIPLE LINES 11,545,815 01/03/2023
ANALOG VECTOR-MATRIX MULTIPLICATION BY CAPACITIVE ELEMENTS WITH RESISTIVE STATE STORAGE 11,494,464 11/08/2022
METAL STACK TEMPLATES FOR SUPPRESSING SECONDARY GRAINS IN ScAlN 11,482,660 10/25/2022
THERMALLY SENSITIVE IONIC REDOX TRANSISTOR 11,450,802 09/20/2022
PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY OF ATOMIC LAYER RESIST 11,424,135 08/23/2022
PHASE-WRAPPING METHOD FOR BEAM STEERING IN OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS 11,409,183 08/09/2022
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