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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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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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Briefs: Communications
This atom-based receiver has the potential to be smaller and work better in noisy environments than conventional radio receivers.
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Q&A: Materials
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Articles: Connectivity
If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
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Briefs: Imaging
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
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NASA Spinoff: Electronics & Computers
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...
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Facility Focus: Semiconductors & ICs
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Potassium-Oxygen Battery Stores Clean Energy
Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery. The battery could make renewable energy sources like solar and wind more viable options for the power grid...
Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
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Application Briefs: Motion Control
Salty air the Dutch city of Harlingen causes exposed metal parts to corrode.
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Briefs: Propulsion
Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This hands-on, educational tool highlights the properties of SMA wire.
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Briefs: Automotive
This technology provides simultaneous ohmic contacts and the process to make them.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Technique Uses X-Rays to Detect Defective Computer Chips
This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The GNV-720 and GNV-725 humidity temperature meters from Global Specialties feature three environmental sensors.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions and could transmit data for years before they need to be replaced.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Sherry Towfighian and her team made a big improvement on how microphones are manufactured.
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Products: Test & Measurement
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Briefs: Energy
Undercooled metal technology was developed that features liquid metal (in this case, Field's metal, an alloy of bismuth, indium, and tin) trapped below its melting point in polished, oxide...
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Articles: Test & Measurement
The Foldable Drone: a Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, Stefano Mintchev, Dario Floreano, and Davide...
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