 SSRL Aids Development of Plastic Electronics May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon—the semiconductor used in low-cost electronics such as photovoltaic ... | |
 Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ... | |
 Silent, microchip-sized 'fan' has no moving parts, yet produces enough wind to cool a laptop March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Engineers harnessing the same physical property that drives silent household air purifiers have created a miniaturized device that is now ready for testing as a silent, ultra-thin, low-power and low maintenance ... | |
 Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. | |
 IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ... | |
Microchip is helping restore vision to the blind June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, ... | |
 Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ... | |
Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing Transition May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger ... | |
Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.
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 Panasonic develops White Color Power LEDs by employing GaN Substrates March 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Panasonic today announced that it has developed a blue LED element by employing GaN substrates for the first time in the industry. | |
 IMEC reports major progress in EUV July 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
IMEC reports functional 0.186µm2 32nm SRAM cells made with FinFETs from which the contact layer was successfully printed using ASML’s full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Applied Materials, ... | |
 Intel, Micron First to Deliver Sub-40 Nanometer NAND Flash Memory Device May 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. introduced the industry's first sub-40 nanometer NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit multi-level cell chip. This process technology was jointly ... | |
Intel, STMicroelectronics Deliver Industry's First Phase Change Memory Prototypes February 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Intel Corporation and STMicroelectronics reached a key industry milestone today as they began shipping prototype samples of a future product using a new, innovative memory technology called Phase Change Memory (PCM). The ... | |
 Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device. | |
New computer program automates chip debugging November 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs companies millions of dollars and months of time-to-market. | |
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