Investigating the “Wireless Wire”

Advancements of silicon technology have led to the field of Micromachining in which it is now possible to create discrete transmitting and receiving devices on the scale of a cubic millimeter. Given such technological capabilities, it is now worth while investigating situations in which these devices can be utilized. In this paper a network of such devices is considered for the end task of propogating information from one point to another without physical interconnections, but rather a series of signal transmission amongst the devices we refer to as “mikroDust”. Possible applications may include communication across a battlefield, with Unmanned Vehicles spreading the dust, or in an area where other means of communication have broken down, e.g. after an earthquake.