IIT-B, TCS to build quantum imaging tool for microchip quality control

IIT Bombay on Tuesday said it has partnered with the country’s largest IT services player TCS to build India’s first quantum diamond microchip imager.

A quantum diamond microchip imager can image magnetic fields, enabling a non-invasive and non-destructive mapping of semiconductor chips, much like an MRI at a hospital, an official statement said, adding that this technology is imperative given the challenges to detect anomalies posed by traditional sensing methods due to the shrinking size of semiconductors.