Electronics & Semiconductors

Heteroepitaxy opens a new way for the heterogeneous integration and multifunctional integration of various semiconductors in the post-Moore era. Credit: Institute of Semiconductors A research team led by Prof. Liu Zhiqiang from the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the team led by Prof....

Google new smartphone, Pixel 6, to be released later this year, will be powered by a new proprietary chip. Google on Monday unveiled a new flagship Pixel smartphone powered by its first mobile chip to put artificial intelligence in people's hands. Pixel 6 models set for release later this year,...

Thousands of unfinished cars are seen parked at a Volkswagen factory in Pamplona, Spain, in May due to the lack of semiconductor supplies. A shortage of semiconductors has sent shockwaves through the global economy, squeezing supplies of everything from cars to headphones. The dearth of chips has exposed the modern...

a, Top: schematic of the photoresponse in the photoreceptor of a human being and the response characteristics. Bottom: the individual response in one luminance step. When the luminance is periodically increased in steps, the response follows a sawtooth curve. With each increase in luminance, the response jumps and then settles...

(Left) Block diagram and (right) die micrography of the 4:1 PAM-4 serializer chip with mixed-signal FFE, as presented at 2021 CICC.  Credit: IMEC The growing popularity of data-intensive applications, such as cloud services, video streaming, high-performance computing and 5G, poses ever-increasing demands on optical communication networks within data centers. Here,...

True wireless charging would mean a little less hassle in a world increasingly dependent on smart devices. Credit: Prasad Jayathurathnage/Aalto University Mobile phones and tablets have allowed us to stay in touch regardless of our location, yet they still rely on plugs, sockets, and charging pads to power up. New...

Credit: IMEC From Augmented Reality games to automatic car locks: Gauging the location of devices is becoming increasingly important in modern life. Except that the precision we demand is far beyond the reach of GPS or Bluetooth. With Ultra-Wideband (UWB) micro-location technology from imec, the location of objects in a...

PlasticARM architecture and features. a, The SoC architecture, showing the internal structure, the processor and system peripherals. The processor contains a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M CPU and a Nested Vector Interrupt Controller (NVIC), and is connected to its memory through the interconnect fabric (AHB-LITE). Finally, the external bus interface provides a...

The figure shows an example of a nanoscale DW-based device using magnetic tunnel junction read/write with a flexible shape of domain wall conduit layer based on synthetic antiferromagnetic material. Credit: Raymenants et al. Domain walls (DWs) are boundaries between two neighboring magnetic domains. The electrical manipulation of these boundaries in...

In this file photo taken on Jan. 19, 2021, the Stellantis sign is seen outside the Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, Mich. The leader of the world's fourth-largest automaker expects a global computer chip shortage that has cut vehicle production to last into next year. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares...

Structural characterization of superlattices. (A) Cross-sectional STEM acquired from sample SBC222. (B) High-resolution STEM from a part of the scanned region. The schematic depicts the arrangement of unit cells. RSM acquired around (103) reflection in (C) BTO, (D) SBC555, (E) SBC252, and (F) SBC222. Star and yellow arrows indicate the...

Qualcomm said Monday that it recently acquired the assets of Twenty Billion Neurons, a Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence/computer vision startup that develops avatars that can see and interact with people in a human-like way. The San Diego mobile technology company declined to say how much it paid for TwentyBN, which has...

A 5-stage complementary ring-oscillator composed of organic permeable base transistors. Credit: Erjuan Guo Physicists of the Technische Universität Dresden introduce the first implementation of a complementary vertical organic transistor technology, which is able to operate at low voltage, with adjustable inverter properties, and a fall and rise time demonstrated in...

Credit: Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation Many bodily functions in humans are manifested by mechanical deformations to the skin—from the stretching, bending and movement of muscles and joints to the flutter of a pulse at the wrist. These mechanical changes can be detected and monitored by measuring different levels of...

In this Oct. 27, 2005, file photo the logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is displayed during a third quarter press conference in Taipei, Taiwan. TSMC, the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for Apple Inc. and other global brands, said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 11.2% over...

Researchers used individual fingertips fitted with stretchable tactile sensors with liquid metal on a prosthesis attached to a robotic arm. Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Each fingertip has more than 3,000 touch receptors, which largely respond to pressure. Humans rely heavily on sensation in their fingertips when manipulating an...

a Different representation of a band structure. In the “flattened” view, a band structure is represented as N stacked flattened arrays (vectors) and processed like independent values. Each array is m3 in length. In the “digital image” analogy, the band structure is envisioned as N different 3D images stacked together,...

A small hydrogel (right) collecting sweat from the fingertip for the vitamin-C sensor (left), then displaying the result on the electrochromic display. Credit: Lu Yin A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors. Engineers at the University of...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sensors are part of modern-day technology. From contactless payment to key fobs, credit card chips to smart devices, near-field communication (NFC) allows for humans to communicate with objects. But what if we could use this technology so that everyday objects, like a pillow or a shoe,...

Credit: Shi et al. Most next generation wireless communication technologies require integrated radiofrequency devices that can operate at frequencies greater than 90 GHz. Two of the semiconductors most widely used to fabricate radiofrequency devices are silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) and transistors based on III-V compound semiconductors, particularly...