Semiconductors & ICs

Access our comprehensive library of technical briefs on semiconductors & ICs, from engineering experts at NASA and major government, university, and commercial laboratories.

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Complete integrated circuits with more than 1,000 organic electrochemical transistors can be screen-printed.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The transistors enable power converters to perform at substantially improved efficiencies, especially in high-power applications.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The new material could help put more power in smaller microchips.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The inexpensive cameras are easy to produce.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smartphone, combined with nanoscale porous silicon, enables inexpensive, simple, home diagnostics.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
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Briefs: Imaging

The promise of personalized medicine involves a simple device that keeps each person apprised of their level of health, identifies even trace amounts of undesirable biomarkers...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Programmed magnetic nanobeads are used to detect the virus in 55 minutes or less.
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Briefs: Materials
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This compact beam steering technology has applications in autonomous navigation, AR, and neuroscience.
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Briefs: Communications
Assembling tiny chips into unique programmable surfaces dramatically increases the amount of data wireless systems can transmit.
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Briefs: Medical
A chip-based technology generates sound profiles with high resolution and intensity to make ultrasound therapy more effective and easier.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicals.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This built-in security measure would prevent hackers from getting enough information about the circuit to reverse-engineer it.
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Briefs: Imaging
The device has applications in medical diagnostics and homeland security.
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Briefs: Materials
The stretchable electronics are more stable as they change shape, which could lead to next-generation sensors for healthcare applications.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This device fits on a computer chip but can analyze infrared light in the same way as a conventional spectrometer.
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Briefs: Energy
The chip could provide low-voltage power for small devices or sensors.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The chip combines two functions — logic operations and data storage — into a single architecture, paving the way to more efficient devices.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include monitoring the temperature of processor chips in superconductor-based quantum computers, which must stay cold to work properly.
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Briefs: Energy
This supercapacitor promises storage, high power, and fast charging.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material, commonly found in house paint, can be used in a device to more efficiently process information.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Computations are done solely with beams of light.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The system enables measurement of active or passive microstrip line devices with DC probing capability.
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Briefs: Transportation
This partially superconducting machine can be used as a motor or generator.
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Briefs: Lighting
Invisible displays on walls and windows would be bright when turned on but invisible when turned off.
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