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Advanced Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory: From Physics to Fielded Systems
Event Details
May 29, 2026
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Host: Steve Crago
POC: Amy Kasmir
Lincoln Laboratory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the Department of War (DoW). Since its establishment in 1951, the Laboratory has simultaneously performed both prototyping of complex systems (e.g., radar, communications, signal collection, imaging, biosensing, cyber security) and research and development of advanced technologies to augment or enable these systems. The Laboratory’s Advanced Technology Division has a long history of developing materials, devices and circuits, and subsystems that have enabled prototype systems and have been subsequently transferred to industry for commercial production. Some examples of these technologies include 193-nm lithography, metamaterials, semiconductor and solid-state lasers, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), microwave devices and integrated circuits, RF phased arrays, fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) CMOS, focal-plane arrays (e.g., CCDs, Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GmAPDs)), wafer-scale 3D integration, superconducting electronics (both qubits and digital), and microsystems. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the Advanced Technology Division, its resources and activities, and how its efforts have impacted Lincoln Laboratory and the Nation. Lincoln’s efforts to support the DoW’s Microectronics Commons program will be described. Collaboration opportunities and pathways to work with the Laboratory will also be discussed.