DoD, Calit2 Fund $500,000 Investment in Advanced Chip Technology

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Schematic diagram of a compact multiple quantum well Digital Optical Tag (DOT)
The U.S. Department of Defense and the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will jointly fund acquisition of a state-of-the-art system for depositing thin-film layers of materials, metals and oxides on tomorrow’s semiconductors. The system will initially supply optical devices to a DoD-funded, small-business research project on ‘optical tagging’ – using optics to identify and track friends or enemies on the battlefield.


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