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Improving contact conductivity in amorphous oxide transistors

Steve Bush — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:46:12 +0000

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have found a novel way to reduce source and drain contact resistance, and increase carrier mobility, in amorphous oxide transistors. In particular, they ...

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Imec WDM advance boosts wavelength channels 4x

David Manners — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:22:02 +0000

Imec has demo-ed a major advancement in silicon-based wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) – a compact 32-channel silicon-based wavelength filter with low loss and high tuning efficiency, enabling a 4x increase in ...

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Scalable, fully-coupled annealing processor with 4096 spins accelerates problem-solving

David Manners — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:10:33 +0000

Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have designed a scalable, fully-coupled annealing processor with 4096 spins, with parallelized capabilities for accelerated problem-solving Annealing processors are designed specifically for addressing ...

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Bioelectronic sensor mesh could grow with heart tissue

Steve Bush — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:49:37 +0000

A team of engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst set themselves the task instrumenting cardiac tissue as it is grown outside the body to study heart disease. Artists impression ...

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Imec reduces litho and etch emissions

David Manners — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:23:27 +0000

Semiconductor devices fabricated in 2021 have a CO2 equivalent footprint of about 175 megatonnes, equivalent to the yearly emissions associated with about 30 million people. Using imec.netzero, a virtual fab ...

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Additive allows perovskite solar cells to be made in the open air

Steve Bush — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:38:48 +0000

Perovskite solar cells can be made in the open air rather than in an inert atmosphere, according to an international research team. Working with p–i–n perovskite solar cells, they added ...

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Diamond CMOS at last?

Steve Bush — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:36:32 +0000

P-channel diamond mosfets have been made many times because the carbon bulk can be doped with boron, or surface hydrogen can pull appropriate carriers into the channel. N-channel diamond mosfets ...

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The good and bad of red phosphorus anodes

Steve Bush — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:23:07 +0000

Red phosphorus is a potential anode material for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, but like sodium itself, its positive values are counter-balanced by considerable challenges. Academics in China and Poland have ...

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Imec signs MoU for Andalusian 300mm pilot line for non-standard IC processes

David Manners — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:10:58 +0000

Imec, the Spanish government and the regional government of Andalusia have signed an MoU outlining their intent to establish a specialised 300mm IC pilot line in Malaga, Andalusia. The facility ...

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The emerging technologies in the wearable electronics space

EW Staff — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:09:01 +0000

Key areas where flexible electronics are having a commercial impact are examined by Liam Critchley, who finds smaller companies are carving their own industry niches. The growth of advanced fabrication ...

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