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Imec and Holst Centre Report Ultra-Low Power Heart Activity Signal Processor

At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report an analog-signal processor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) - in short ASP - that reduces the overall power consumption of an ambulatory heart activity signal monitoring systems by more than 5 times.

From IMEC 6 Feb 2010

IBM Researchers Demonstrate Graphene Transistor with the Highest Cut-Off Frequency

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).

5 Feb 2010

Imec and Holst Centre to Present at International Solid State Circuit Conference

At next week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and ...

From IMEC 4 Feb 2010

Using Micro-Fabrication Methods to Further Develop Biocompatible Microelectrode Array for Artificial Retina Device

Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are now developing the electronics for a third-generation artificial retina as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to produce an "epiretinal prosthesis" that could restore vision to millions of people around the world suffering from eye diseases.

From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 4 Feb 2010

Ultratech's LSA100A Systems to Support High-Volume Production of Advanced Logic Devices

Ultratech, Inc. (NASDAQ:UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today announced that it has received a follow-on, multiple-system order for its las...

4 Feb 2010

Dow Electronic Materials Joins SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, and Dow Electronic Materials announced today that Dow has joined SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center (RMDC) at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany.

4 Feb 2010

Researchers Demonstrate First Laser Built from Germanium

MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. It's also the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature. Unlike the materials typically used in lasers, germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips.

4 Feb 2010

Harnessing Nanoscale Surface Variations of Ferroelectric Films

Ferroelectric thin films have the potential to become the building blocks for electronic memory applications but, as film thicknesses decrease with further miniaturization, surface imperfections can influence device perf...

2 Feb 2010

Lithographic Approach Based on Evaporating Solutions Makes Conducting Networks of Microwires for Electronics

A process to rival traditional lithography approaches, and which can be used to create microwire networks, is now a step closer to real applicability in future electronics. By optimizing the processing conditions for &#3...

2 Feb 2010

Nanowires for a New Chip Architecture

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down already to a size of only about 50 nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 millionth part of 1 millimeter).

2 Feb 2010