Keyword: Integrated circuits

5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new ion trap developed by Sandia National Labs enables scientists to build more powerful machines to advance the experimental but potentially revolutionary field of quantum computing.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
While the promise of smaller, better, faster, lighter devices enabled by integrated photonics technologies is indeed the ultimate goal for AIM Photonics, the actual path to high-volume manufacturing isn’t necessarily a smooth ride for PIC designers, developers, and engineers.
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Facility Focus: Research Lab
The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was established in 1868.
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Briefs: Lighting Technology
But they’re not yet small enough to compete in computing and other applications where electric circuits continue to reign.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The innovation opens the door for faster and more affordable at-home medical testing.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Bulky, heavy LiDAR systems in self-driving cars could be replaced with a single chip.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
As the tension between demand and supply rises, the world of electronics keeps evolving and the impact of its evolution will need to be watched closely.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight. About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (microflier) does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it...

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Q&A: Electronics & Computers

Professor Kenneth K. O. and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Dallas and Oklahoma State University have developed an innovative and affordable terahertz imager microchip that can enable...

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Articles: Automotive
Increasingly powerful integrated circuit and system-on-chip devices are growing in importance to vehicle design.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A new fabrication methodology addresses the need for a thin, double-sided circuitry board.
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Briefs: AR/AI
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A tiny sensor chip records multiple lung and heart signals along with body movements.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed an optical amplifier that they expect will revolutionize both space and fiber communication.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The microchips are about 100 times smaller than conventional microchips.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The oscillator is designed for localized clock signal generation and data transmission in telemetry systems and remote sensing.
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Briefs: Materials
Complete integrated circuits with more than 1,000 organic electrochemical transistors can be screen-printed.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The new material could help put more power in smaller microchips.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A smartphone, combined with nanoscale porous silicon, enables inexpensive, simple, home diagnostics.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Nearly 100% of all-carbon-based transistors are reclaimed while retaining future functionality of the materials.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
A comparison of passive and active supercapacitor charging methods emphasizes the need for a close inspection on power source and supercapacitor demand.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Programmed magnetic nanobeads are used to detect the virus in 55 minutes or less.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The portable lab-on-a-chip detects many contaminants in water supplies.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The system provides high tuning capability and extreme simplicity.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
As ICs continue to become smaller and chip complexity increases, manufacturers still need to ensure reliability to their customers.
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
With PrintIC technology, sensors, actuators, energy supplies, and ICs can be printed on the same substrate, avoiding assembly cost.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The sensor enables detection of items for security screening, intrusion detection, forensics, and medical imaging.
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