Caltech Engineers Build Electronic Chips that Repair Themselves (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Caltech Engineers Build Electronic Chips that Repair Themselves

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Some of the damage Caltech engineers intentionally inflicted on their self-healing power amplifier using a high-power laser. The chip was able to recover from complete transistor destruction. This image was captured with a scanning electron microscope.

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Jeff Chang and Kaushik Dasgupta/Caltech

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