{"id":26445,"date":"2016-06-03T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T04:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/researchers-use-t-rays-to-look-inside-of-broken-microchips"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:40:29","slug":"researchers-use-t-rays-to-look-inside-of-broken-microchips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/researchers-use-t-rays-to-look-inside-of-broken-microchips","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use T-rays to look inside of broken microchips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/dims5\/amp:be31aecdd999dce26472daae3ece9ba00d0c800f\/t:1200,630\/q:80\/?url=++++http%3A%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2F8be517bd9c7a394551ad9d56ddc5ca22%2F203907090%2Fchips.jpg++%0A\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, can do some really incredible stuff. It can be used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/01\/23\/scientists-produce-stronger-t-rays-bring-tricorders-closer-to-r\/\">scan for tumors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/22\/terahertz-laser-security-detection\/\">bombs<\/a> build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/16\/t-rays-produce-3gbps-short-range-wireless\/\">ultrafast wireless networks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/02\/17\/mini-z-t-ray-imaging-device-takes-home-the-gold\/\">see through solid objects<\/a>. As an imaging technology, however, T-ray cameras have always had a resolution limitation. Well, they used to. Researchers at the University of Exter has developed a new terahertz camera that can see at a microscopic level \u2014 and they want to use it to find defects in microchips.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough kind of changes the game for terahertz imaging. The radiation has always been able to look through solid objects without damaging them \u2014 which is why it\u2019s frequently used in the art world to look past the surface layer of various masterpieces \u2014 but resolution limitations kept it from being used to diagnose broken computer chips.<\/p>\n<p>Project lead Rayko Stantchev says his team has <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/2\/6\/e1600190.full\">effectively doubled the technology\u2019s resolution<\/a>, creating a proof-of-principle prototype that can see a microscopic image printed on a circuit board obscured by a thick silicon wafer. \u201cWith our device you could test the quality of microchips that have buried under optically-opaque materials,\u201d Stantchev says. \u201cAllowing you to tell if a hidden chip is broken without having to open it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/03\/researchers-use-t-rays-to-look-inside-of-broken-microchips\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/03\/researchers-use-t-rays-to...icrochips\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, can do some really incredible stuff. It can be used to scan for tumors and bombs build ultrafast wireless networks and see through solid objects. As an imaging technology, however, T-ray cameras have always had a resolution limitation. Well, they used to. Researchers at the University of Exter has developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41444,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445\/revisions\/41444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}