Archive : 2015 год

Last month, speakers from around the world came to imec's Technology Forum in Brussels to share their views on what was described as our 'collective digital future'.According to Padmasree Warrior, a strategic advisor at Cisco: "We are currently living through what is quite possibly the most exciting time that I have experienced...

A team of physicists from Germany, the US and Japan says it has used a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to create a transistor consisting of one molecule and a small number of atoms. The team says the device's action is 'markedly different' from that which might be expected and claims this could be important for future such devices....

As part of the Government's Summer Budget, the Chancellor, George Osborne, confirmed funding for six new multidisciplinary research centres, worth a total of £45million, which will drive forward the UK's Digital Economy research, knowledge and skills.The £23m investment will come via The Engineering and Physical Sciences Res...

Globalfoundries has unveiled the 22FDX platform, said to deliver FinFET-like performance and energy efficiency at a cost comparable to 28nm planar technologies. It claims the process could provide an optimal solution for IoT, RF connectivity and networking products.The fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI) process has an operating voltag...

As process nodes shrink, the problem of feature variations is increasing. Looking to address the issue, Applied Materials has unveiled the Centris Sym3 etch system. The tool is said to feature an entirely new chamber and to enable what the company calls atomic level precision manufacturing.Centris Sym3 uses the company's True Symmetry techn...

Renesas Electronics and Audi have established a strategic relationship which not only addresses the traditional automotive control areas powertrain, chassis, body and safety, but also newer applications, including automated drive, connected car and the electrical vehicle.Ricky Hudi, head of electric/electronic development at Audi, said: "I...

Plessey Semiconductors has announced that it will be leading a £1.3million government funded project in conjunction with AIXTRON Ltd and Bruker Nano Surfaces Division. Plessey claims this project will accelerate high volume manufacturing of its LEDs created with GaN-on-Silicon technology.The department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that they hope to encode into common human gut bacterium. It is said these basic computing elements will allow the bacteria to sense, memorise, and respond to signals in the gut, with future applications that might include the early detection and treatment of inflam...

Black phosphorous is emerging as a serious challenger to graphene as researchers look for materials which might replace silicon in future electronic devices. However, chemists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have developed a semiconducting material in which individual phosphorus atoms are replaced by arsenic. And, in a collabo...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method which they say allows electronics devices to be cooled efficiently using a graphene-based film with a thermal conductivity capacity four times that of copper.Professor Johan Liu's team showed a couple of years ago that graphene can have a cooling effect on si...