"NANO" - TINY TECHNOLOGIES
		INFO BIO NANO MACRO ENVIRO Tiny Technologies at MIT Active Materials and Structures Laboratory Center for Bits and Atoms Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Microsystems Technology Laboratories Materials Processing Center Microphotonics Center NanoStructures Laboratory Research Laboratory for Electronics			A SIMPLER WAY TO MAKE MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES Caroline Ross Department of Materials Science and Engineering Smart cards, smart sensors, merchandise tags - these are only a few of the many potential applications that could benefit from a simple, low-cost logic device. Logic operations form the basis for microprocessors and other electronic devices. Present-day microprocessors are made from semiconductor devices, such as transistors, which are fabricated on silicon chips in a lengthy and complex process. The resulting devices are very high-performance but expensive to produce. This project's goal is to develop a disruptive technology to make logic devices from magnetic structures instead of silicon-based semiconductors. The advantage is a very simple and low-cost architecture. Simple processors based on magnetic logic devices would be well-suited for applications requiring both a lower level of performance and very low cost.
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