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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: Motion Control
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
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Articles: Automotive
Faster inline CT inspections makes it possible to inspect far greater numbers of circuit boards.
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Products: Transportation
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
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Technology Leaders: Materials
Ultra-thin piezoresistive sensors can be used in both R&D and as embedded components to develop safer, longer-lasting lithium-ion battery technologies.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Complete integrated circuits with more than 1,000 organic electrochemical transistors can be screen-printed.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
The transistors enable power converters to perform at substantially improved efficiencies, especially in high-power applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The new material could help put more power in smaller microchips.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
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Briefs: Automotive
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: Energy
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
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Briefs: Imaging
The inexpensive cameras are easy to produce.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
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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
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 in...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Uncooled Thermal Lens British threat detection specialist Silent Sentinel (Hertfordshire, UK) has expanded its Aeron Ranger suite of cameras to include a brand-new 25-150mm Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) uncooled thermal lens,...
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Conductive cellulose, composites testing, and a light-emitting tattoo.
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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: Semiconductors & ICs
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a huge potential for providing devices with much smaller size and extended functionalities with respect to what can be achieved with...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Two-dimensional materials can be used to create smaller, high-performance transistors than the ones traditionally made of silicon, according to Professor Saptarshi Das of...
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This compact beam steering technology has applications in autonomous navigation, AR, and neuroscience.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Assembling tiny chips into unique programmable surfaces dramatically increases the amount of data wireless systems can transmit.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A chip-based technology generates sound profiles with high resolution and intensity to make ultrasound therapy more effective and easier.
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Products: Imaging
Near-eye displays, optical inspection systems, UV glass, and more.
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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: Semiconductors & ICs
This built-in security measure would prevent hackers from getting enough information about the circuit to reverse-engineer it.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Materials
The device has applications in medical diagnostics and homeland security.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can...
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