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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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INSIDER: Design
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit — but not if the transistor “type” is...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Board-to-board connectors, supercapacitors, li-ion batteries, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This device fits on a computer chip but can analyze infrared light in the same way as a conventional spectrometer.
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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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Briefs: Energy
The chip could provide low-voltage power for small devices or sensors.
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Briefs: Imaging
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: Electronics & Computers
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: Semiconductors & ICs
This supercapacitor promises storage, high power, and fast charging.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
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: Semiconductors & ICs
The system enables measurement of active or passive microstrip line devices with DC probing capability.
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INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an ability...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Field Effect Transistors (FET) are the core building blocks of modern electronics such as integrated circuits, computer CPUs, and display backplanes. Organic...
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Briefs: Energy
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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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With PrintIC technology, sensors, actuators, energy supplies, and ICs can be printed on the same substrate, avoiding assembly cost.
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Blog: Semiconductors & ICs
By jumpstarting electrons, a team at Washington University in St. Louis has developed sensors that can power themselves for more than a year.
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News: Energy
Researchers in the Battery and Energy Storage Technology Center at Penn State University are searching for a reliable, quick-charging, cold-weather battery for automobiles. They say the...
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See what kinds of applications are possible when you can literally see light propagating through space.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Creating next-generation LEDs for novel efforts like COVID-19 decontamination requires LED manufacturers to reevaluate the materials that they’re using.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A "TPSI" process makes it possible to distinguish between the front and back of optical surfaces, and to characterize the quality of both in a single measurement.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Printable organic photodiodes can distinguish wavelengths and enable data transmission by light.
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Products: Test & Measurement
The SHFQA Quantum Analyzer from Zurich Instruments operates at up to 8.5 GHz and can perform direct readout of superconducting and spin qubits.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
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Articles: Wearables
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Tests show magnetoelectric power is a viable option for clinical-grade implants.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With low-cost materials called perovskites, stable, continuous lasing is achieved at room temperature for over an hour.
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Briefs: Automotive
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Applications include low-light conditions such as on orbital satellites and VR applications where the lens needs to be larger than a pupil.
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