Projects
![This image shows micro-chips for Super-DICE atop a penny for size reference.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2021-05/chips-on-penny.jpg?itok=25PbwwXd)
Superconducting Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics
A technology that allows system developers to combine modules produced by trusted foundries and commercial manufacturers may deliver yield enhancements and power and performance benefits to mission-critical systems.
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Diamond Magnetometer
Engineered diamonds show promising capability for use in quantum sensing of magnetic fields.
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![Three step progression of material in self repair, from cracked, to processing, to fully repaired.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2020-09/self-healing_composite.jpg?itok=80ESKP5w)
Self-Healing Materials for Vibration Damping
New materials that are chemically inspired by nature could be tailored at the molecular level to dissipate vibrations in microsystems. Materials that can survive repeated external stresses could enable a next generation of enhanced microsystems.
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![A zoomed-in view of a metal nozzle shooting a stream of orange onto a metal surface, and a nozzle shooting a stream of purple at the orange stream of material.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2020-03/microplasma-sputter-2.png?itok=Wa7DEsCi)
Microplasma Sputterer
A novel method for manufacturing interconnects could open the door for 3D-printed microelectronic systems.
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![TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AR13_TESS_Earth2.png?h=e75ab034&itok=MzzwiO3a)
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
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![Researchers test the prototype standoff microwave imaging system. The antennas emit radio signals that reflect off the person standing in front of the array; the system processes the reflections to create the image on the monitors in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/512246-005D.jpg?h=f4b902a9&itok=aDA2L9iC)
Video-Rate Standoff Microwave Imaging System
The system can rapidly and discreetly detect threat items concealed under clothes or hidden in bags of people in crowded public spaces.
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![The Laboratory's advanced work in miniaturized electronics enabled the development of EnteroPhone™.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/EnteroPhone_in%20hand.jpg?h=3e00a8a5&itok=peUDma70)
EnteroPhone™
A wireless, ingestible device monitors heart and breathing rates by listening to the body's sounds and senses core temperature, all from within the gastrointestinal tract.
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![This illustration shows OSIRIS-REx contacting the asteroid Bennu. Aboard OSIRIS-REx is the REXIS instrument, for which the Laboratory developed CCDs that will image X-rays emitting from Bennu's surface. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/OSIRIS-REX.jpg?h=f8d5414b&itok=-jteZZMe)
Charge-Coupled Devices for REXIS on OSIRIS-REx
Our CCDs will image X-rays emitting from elements on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.
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![Photomicrograph of superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) shift-register integrated circuit fabricated at Lincoln Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/GOMAC_sc_PCM411_Shift%20Register%2810%29.jpg?itok=6WwXYj2g)
Superconducting Electronics
The world's most advanced single-flux-quantum (SFQ) integrated circuit process has been developed here at Lincoln Laboratory.
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![The LASSOS display screen highlights the laser strike event in live sensor imagery on the left and generates a 3D model of the laser streak in Google Earth, right.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/LASSOS-screen-highlight.jpg?h=70488f4c&itok=Zro-6Gou)
Laser Aircraft Strike Suppression Optical System
A system that detects laser beams being shone into the sky and alerts police of their source can help protect pilots and aircraft.
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