NASA Tech Briefs’ Semiconductors & ICs Web page spotlights innovative designs of electronic components for applications in aerospace, defense, communications, automotive, bio-med, consumer products, and other major industries. Subject areas include power ICs, logic ICs, microprocessors, digital signal processors, FPGAs, and ASICs. Many of the Tech Briefs below are correlated to a Technical Support Package (TSP) or White Paper that can be downloaded free of charge.
Lower-Dark-Current, Higher-Blue-Response CMOS Imagers
Semiconductor junctions are relocated away from Si/SiO2 interfaces.
Several improved designs for complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) integrated- circuit image detectors have been developed, primarily to reduce dark currents (leakage currents) and secondarily to increase responses to blue light and increase signal- handling capacities, relative to those of prior CMOS imagers. The main ...
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MEMS/ECD Method for Making Bi2–xSbxTe3 Thermoelectric Devices
Compact, Single-Stage MMIC InP HEMT Amplifier
MMIC Amplifier Produces Gain of 10 dB at 235 GHz
Analog Nonvolatile Computer Memory Circuits






















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