Capabilities: Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies

Sandia is a world leader in the technology required for development, fabrication, and production of microelectronic, photonic, micromachine and microsensor devices and products.

Sandia also has the ability to integrate these devices into complete microsystems. Microsystems that sense, think, act, communicate and self-power will make our nation more secure, revolutionize our industries, and will make the revolution in biology a reality

Distinguishing strengths include materials growth and development, device and product design, fabrication technologies for silicon and compound semiconductor devices, advanced packaging technologies, reliability, failure analysis and product delivery for extreme environments.

DOE and Sandia have begun a significant expansion of these capabilities with the MESA program to provide the ability to seamlessly integrate advanced simulation with agile manufacturing to provide a faster, better, cheaper process for providing novel microsystems to support the enduring nuclear weapons stockpile and other critical needs of the nation.