Imec has come up with a flexible tag which can be attached to food products to monitor their freshness. It is expected to be introduced commercially this year. The tag took three years to develop in the pan-European CATRENE-Pasteur ...
Nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced the launch of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform through a cost-sharing multi-project wafer (MPW) service via ePIXfab, the EU-funded silicon photonics ...
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Imec of Leuven, Belgium, which does R&D for all the major DRAM makers, has shown the way forward for scaling capacitors in DRAMs. A finding by Imec researchers allows the stored charge to be increased while leakage levels remain ...
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CardioNet has signed a multi-year agreement with IMEC and its Dutch affiliate Holst Center to develop new cardiac monitoring devices. The partnership, over the next 18 months, will leverage CardioNet's proprietary algorithms and back-end ...
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Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France says that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology. The ...
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The inverter market grew significantly to $45bn in 2012, and will reach $71bn by 2020, according to Yole Développement in a report on ‘Inverter market trends for 2013-2020 and major technology changes’. “More than ...
Belgian research lab Imec has demonstrated a prototype hyper-spectral stills and video camera. Rather than recording red green and blue intensities at each pixel like a conventional colour camera, hyper-spectral imaging records a ...
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Qualcomm Technologies is working with Europe's largest semiconductor technology centre, Imec on advanced CMOS logic and memory technologies including MRAM. Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory which could be a low leakage ...
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Imec has worked with Cadence Design Systems to validate an automated 3D design-for-test tool for logic-memory interconnects in DRAM-on-logic stacks. The tool, which is based on Cadence Encounter test software, was verified on an ...
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Imec and PVA Tepla claim a breakthrough in the detection of through-silicon via (TSV) voids in 3D stacked IC technology. They used GHz scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) technology to detect TSV voids at wafer-level after TSV Copper ...
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The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec’s associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), announced today it has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display, which can be embedded in contact lenses. The first ...
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Japan-based Kaneka, a solar firm that produces N-type mono-crystalline solar cell using heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) technology, has reportedly been discussing cooperation with Taiwan-based firms such as Gintech and Neo ...
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An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
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Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
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MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
Tags: optical interconnect technology, optical, optical interconnect speed