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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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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Electronics Design & Assembly - May 2020
The latest advances in chip and board-level design and manufacturing are spotlighted in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology...

INSIDER: Wearables
A new manufacturing process could produce flexible electronics for things like virtual reality-enabled contact lenses, solar-powered skins that mold to the contours of your car, and...
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INSIDER: Research Lab
Wearable tech and electronic cloth may be the way of the future, but to get there the wiring needs to be strong, flexible, and efficient.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Microelectronics like semiconductor devices are at the heart of the technologies we use each day. As we move into an era where we are stretching the limits of Moore’s Law, it is...
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Facility Focus: Aerospace
See some of the world-changing tools and technologies launched by Caltech scientists, from earthquake monitoring to helping the blind see.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Use a CurveBoard?
MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Magnetic Shield Using Proximity Coupled, Spatially Varying Superconducting Order Parameters
This magnetic shielding design can be easily incorporated into a wide range of electronic sensing applications.
Briefs: Materials
These materials can be used in aerospace vehicles, automobiles, clothing, helmets, and chemical sensors.
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Briefs: Communications
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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Briefs: Materials
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team of engineers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has boosted the performance of its previously developed 3D inductor technology by adding as much as three orders...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Nagoya University scientists have succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light. It emits the world's shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers, under pulsed electric current...
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INSIDER: Power
Scientists at Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden) have described a method to manufacture transistors using gallium nitride and aluminum nitride that have the ability to withstand voltages as high...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
To further shrink electronic devices and to lower energy consumption, the semiconductor industry is interested in using 2D materials, but manufacturers need a quick...
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Facility Focus: Communications
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
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Q&A: Wearables
Drexel Professor Genevieve Dion is coating yarn with the highly conductive, two-dimensional material MXene.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Low-viscosity plastic; coin cell holders; oxidation-resistant coatings; and more.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Encoder The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified. It features both BiSS and SSI...
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Briefs: Materials
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
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Briefs: Materials
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
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