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Advancement of Tiny MEMS Sensors

Tiny sensors known as accelerometers are everywhere. The near-weightless technology can measure the impact of a dangerous tackle on a football player's helmet, control the flow of highway and runway traffic, analyze ...

11 Aug 2010

UC’s Nanolab Team Assesses Need for Next-Generation Display Technology

Sleek design and ease of use are just two of the main reasons consumers are increasingly attracted to tablets and e-readers. And these devices are only going to get better -- display technology improvements are on the way.

11 Aug 2010

Sandwiching Nanoparticle Layer Boosts Performance of Organics Electronics

Out of sight is not out of mind for a group of Hong Kong researchers who have demonstrated that burying a layer of silver nanoparticles improves the performance of their organic electronic devices without requiring complex processing.

11 Aug 2010

Tektronix Announces 130 nm SiGe Technology Application in Future Oscilloscopes

Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that its next-generation, scalable, performance oscilloscope platform will make broad use of IBM 8HP silicon germanium (SiGe) technology.

10 Aug 2010

Mentor Supports TSMC in 28nm Test Chip Development

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its Calibre® Design-to-Silicon solutions were key elements in the successful development of TSMC's 28nm Product Qualification Vehicle (PQV), a major milestone in the TSMC process development. Multiple Mentor products were used in the design of the PQV test chips, including the Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS tools for design verification, and Tessent™ test suite for silicon test.

10 Aug 2010

Spintronics, New Substitute for Microelectronics

Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. An alternative to traditional microelectronics, so-called &qu...

From Ohio University 10 Aug 2010

Business Leaders to Discuss MEMS Integration into Electronic Products

8.58 billion MEMS devices generating nearly $10B in revenue will ship in 2014, according to leading microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) market analysts.

10 Aug 2010

Researchers Study Unique Properties of Epitaxial Graphene Using Spectroscopy

Researchers have taken one more step toward understanding the unique and often unexpected properties of graphene, a two-dimensional carbon material that has attracted interest because of its potential applications in future generations of electronic devices.

10 Aug 2010

TSMC Employs Synopsys' Galaxy Platform for 28 Nanometer Test Chip Design

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that TSMC has successfully taped out a complex 28-nanometer (nm) Product Qualification Vehicle (PQV) test chip using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform.

From Synopsys, Inc. 10 Aug 2010

Goodrich to Expand MEMS Fabrication Area in Minnesota Facility

Goodrich Corporation today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark a 57,000 square foot expansion to its Sensors and Integrated Systems (SIS) facility in Burnsville, Minn.

7 Aug 2010