This work is going to be done for the first time in the country’s electronic industry

IIT Bombay has partnered with the country’s largest IT services company TCS to build India’s first ‘Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager’. According to the official statement, the Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager can produce images of magnetic fields. It enables ‘non-invasive’ (without entering any organism/object) and ‘non-destructive’ (without causing damage) mapping of a semiconductor chip. Like an MRI in a hospital.

According to a report in The Hindu, this will be an advanced sensing tool. It will be able to examine semiconductor chips very closely. This will reduce the failure of chips and increase the energy efficiency of electronic devices. TCS experts will work with Associate Professor Kasturi Saha of the premier technology institute to develop a quantum imaging platform in the PQuest lab in the next 2 years.

Testing will be done without causing damage
Saha said that both the partners will work on a quantum imaging platform for ‘non-destructive’ testing of chips, leveraging their expertise in quantum sensing to promote innovation. TCS Chief Technology Officer Harik Win said that the ‘second quantum revolution’ is progressing at an unprecedented pace, making it imperative to gather resources and expertise to build cutting-edge capabilities in sensing, computing and communication technologies.