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Semiconductors & ICs

Review the latest advances and technical briefs in Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) technologies essential to Design Engineers. Find new products and applications in semiconductors, electronics, electronic components, electronic circuits, integrated circuits, and ICS.

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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
As light-duty and commercial-purpose battery electric vehicles (EVs) catch on, better, faster, and smarter battery recharging is on the way.
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Products: Motion Control
Test servo drives, robot monitors, AC motors, and more
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Briefs: Energy
The discovery could enable lightweight, low-cost, long-lasting energy storage for electric vehicles, houses, and more.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These “living machines” hold potential for applications from medical treatments to improving the environment.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Energy
The material could pave the way for better, safer solid-state batteries.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Charger ICs, backup units, power supplies, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Professor Jiwoong Park and his team have made a material that is crystalline in the X-Y direction, but amorphous in the Z direction.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The sulfolane-additive process yields easy fabrication, low cost, and long operating life.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sensing is incorporated directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Space Technology - January 2022
Read about the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, the NASA rocket that will carry humans back to the moon, the nanosatellites that are dramatically reducing the cost of space science, and much more...

Articles: Photonics/Optics
The main Photonics West exhibition opens on Tuesday, January 25.
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5 Ws: RF & Microwave Electronics
About the size of a grain of sand, the flying microchip (or microflier) does not have a motor or engine.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Better detection of microwave radiation will enable improved thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications, and radar.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
An ultra-small actuator has nanometer-scale precision.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This robot can run, jump, carry heavy payloads, and turn on a dime.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Diamonds’ atomic flaws are converted into atomic sensors that watch a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have devised and tested a highly sensitive method of detecting and counting defects in transistors...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Boron is a versatile non-metal element, but until the last five years, chemists have only theorized about the useful properties and applications of two-dimensional (2D)...
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Articles: Software
Semiconductor companies are looking for better tools and practices to maximize the efficiency of their design-validation processes.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology improves the detection of low-power far-infrared (FIR) signals.
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Briefs: AR/AI
Sensing and learning can be combined to create novel cameras for artificial intelligence systems.
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Briefs: Communications
The phased array antenna based on large-area electronics technology could enable many uses of emerging 5G and 6G wireless networks.
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Briefs: Power
The approach could advance the potential of high-powered, solid-electrolyte lithium batteries.
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Briefs: Wearables
A tiny sensor chip records multiple lung and heart signals along with body movements.
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