Device R&D

The International Solid State Circuits Conference is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry, regarding systems-on-a-chip and solid-state circuits.

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a 32Gbit/s data transmitter and receiver with loss equalisation circuits, which it says can be used in the fastest data links between microprocessors

“Imagine an LED array beside a motorway helping to light the road, displaying the latest traffic updates and transmitting internet information wirelessly to passengers’ laptops, netbooks and smart..."

Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory which could be a low leakage alternative to SRAM

A device which allows an optical detector to pick up on the rotation of a twisted light wave, called an optical vortex or vortex beam, has been developed by researchers at .the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

MIT is claiming to have made the smallest GaAs transistor. It is 22nm long, making it a candidate to replace silicon in computing devices, claimed co-developer Professor Jesus del...

At the IEDM, Imec has presented an ultra-thin hybrid floating gate cell for future flash memory. "The results are an important enabler for further scaling of NAND flash technology towards...

Toshiba has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the lowest reported power consumption, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.

IBM claims that it has developed a breakthrough silicon nanophotonics technology which allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits

US scientists have created a bright efficient area light source to compete with fluorescent tubes and OLEDs, it is claimed