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UBIQUITOUS PRESENCE. "The next generation of computers will be able to carry out complex calculations but will be little bigger than a snowflake. The plan is for such sensor-packed machines to be embedded in buildings and objects in their hundreds or even thousands, providing constant updates on the world around us." https://lnkd.in/eJg-jHE View in LinkedIn

MICRO-DRONES. "Termed “smart dust,” these miniature versions of our contemporary drones are only a generation or two or three away from realization. In fact, they have been in development at DARPA for over twenty years. As originally envisioned by the geniuses at RAND, smart dust will eventually be a combination of “microeletromechanical” systems or MEMS." http://www.theascender.org/power-smart-dust/ View in LinkedIn

MILITARY AND SMART DUST. "Apparently, DARPA and the Rand Corporation have been working on smart dust since the early 1990s (as you would expect), and smart dust has made it to Gartner's Hype Cycle For Emerging Technology." https://lnkd.in/eSBshT3 View in LinkedIn

SMART DUST is a major goal of intensive research in academia and industry. Proponents cite the many practice applications and problems that may be possible to solve with this technology. But much less is said about the dark side. The military has long been interested in the topic, along with robotics. View in LinkedIn

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. "Unlike lattices of atoms, photonic crystals have structural possibilities limited only by the human imagination. Any shape can be sculpted at the lattice sites." Nature has been experimenting with these natural semiconductors for millions of years, and the parade of iridescent coloration in nature is also the roadmap for future industries. https://lnkd.in/eKrjXgP View in LinkedIn

NATURE HOLDS THE PATENTS. "All the magic of semiconductors—the switching and logic functions—comes about from controlling the availability of electrons and holes above and below the band gap." https://lnkd.in/eKrjXgP View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC BUSINESS. "Many researchers greeted the idea of a photonic band gap with skepticism and disinterest when it was first proposed, but today photonic crystals are rapidly turning into big business. Photonic crystals have applications such as high- capacity optical fibers, color pigments and photonic integrated circuits that would manipulate light in addition to electric currents." http://optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu/eliy_SCIAM.pdf View in LinkedIn

SEMICONDUCTORS OF LIGHT = PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. "Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons. The microelectronics and information revolution is based on the elaborate control of electric currents achieved with semiconductors such as silicon. That control depends on a phenomenon called the band gap: a range of energies in which electrons are blocked from traveling through the semiconductor." https://lnkd.in/eKrjXgP View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC GUANINE NANOCRYSTALS also serve the chameleon in thermal protection. The same is true for certain algae. https://lnkd.in/e3hJaJj View in LinkedIn

GUANINE NANOCRYSTALS, Video of them caught in action changing color. https://lnkd.in/eAiEqbG View in LinkedIn