Printed electronics are rapidly gaining popularity across applications for their benefits of low cost, high throughput, ease of manufacturing, and use in new applications. Industries are strongly backing innovations in this domain due to ...
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Researchers at Purdue and Harvard universities have developed gallium arsenide (GaAs) enhancement-mode (E-mode) surface/n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (NMOSFETs) with a maximum drain current of 336mA/mm, which ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) and Avago Technologies, a ...
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In its efforts to explore methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry, mimicking the way in which the human brain operates. The proposed transistors would be ...
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The first millimeter-wave power demonstration of aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN) grown on a (110) silicon substrate has been claimed by a French team of researchers [A. Soltani ...
Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
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APEI and GaN Systems have developed a 1MHz gallium nitride power dc-dc boost converter delivering 5kW at 98.5% efficiency. GaN power transistors are lightning fast, have low on-resistance, and are been proposed for converters working ...
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Fujitsu has developed a 16-core SPARC processor for high-reliability servers. Called SPARC64 X and made on a 28nm high-k metal-gate CMOS process, the 10th generation SPARC64 processor has three billion transistors and 13 layers of ...
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Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The proposed transistors would be made from strongly ...
Rohm Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has started mass-production of the BSM180D12P2C101 1200V/180A-rated silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) module for inverters/converters used in industrial equipment, photovoltaic ...
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Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will be highlighted at SEMICON West 2013, along with product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components and ...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Nanomix's patent application relating to flexible nanostructure electronic devices, such as nanotube sensors and transistors, and method for fabricating. The patent allows ...
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Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results. Those are already possible with Nvidia's fastest graphics ...
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Scientists have taken the next step in the evolution of the computer chip, developing self-healing integrated chips. A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology) said they now can envision smartphone and computer chips ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has launched the Total GaN family of gallium nitride on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is claimed to ...
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