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CPI selected to support FLEXTRANS project success
Through a new EU-funded project called FLEXTRANS, the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has been selected as a support partner to SmartKem for the accelerated pre-production of a new generation of low power, flexible display-based products.FLEXTRANS is a two-year programme, led by SmartKem, that has been developed to support the transition to market of the company's truFLEXthin film transistor (TFT) platform for the manufacture of high performa...
High-precision control of printed circuits and displays
Printed electronic transistor circuits and displays in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed are two of many applications of research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University. New groundbreaking results on these topics have been published inScience Advances.The researchers in organic electronics have a favourite material to work with: the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS, which conducts both electrons and ion...
BMW i Ventures invests in GaN Systems
Global provider of GaN power transistors, GaN Systems, has announced the closing of an investment round led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures. Consistent with its investment strategy, BMW i Ventures recognises that GaN Systems’ products maximise the efficiency of electronic systems while dramatically reducing size, weight and overall system cost. The investment will be used to expand global sales and accelerate new product devel...
Magnetic semi-metal improves the efficiency of electronics
A recent discovery by a team of researchers led by Tulane University advances fundamental knowledge that could one day lead to more energy-efficient computers, televisions, cellphones and other electronics.The researchers' discovery of a new magnetic topological semimetal is featured in the latest edition of the prestigious journalNature Materials.The Tulane team was led by physics professor Zhiqiang Mao, the Tulane School of Science and Engineer...
Research alliance builds transistor for 5nm technology
IBM, its Research Alliance partners Globalfoundries and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5nm chips. The details of the process will be presented at the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits conference in Kyoto, Japan. In less than two years since developing a 7nm test node chip with 20 billion transistors, scientists have paved the way for 30 ...
Two-phase digital power factor corrector consists of AC/DC converter
Power semiconductors and integrated circuits manufacturer for energy efficiency, power management, and motor control applications, IXYS Corporation have announced the availability of a new design: 3kW Two-Phase Digital Power Factor Corrector (PFC). It is based on Zilog’s 8-bit Z8F6481 microcontroller, a member of the Z8 Encore XP F6482 series of microcontrollers, and IXYS power transistors and rectifiers.
Device may contribute to creating a neuromorphic computer
Of all things that contemporary science is capable of observing in the universe, nothing outperforms the human brain or can even be compared to it in terms of functionality, plasticity and efficiency. The brain is a massively parallel processor of information, consuming an amount of energy on the order of a femtojoules (10-15 J) per synaptic event. As a comparison, an ordinary 100 W bulb consumes one hundred quadrillion times more energy per seco...
200 and 650V e-mode devices developed on 200mm Si wafers
Research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technology, imec, has announced that it has developed 200 and 650V normally-off/enhancement mode (e-mode) on 200mm/8" GaN-on-Silicon wafers, achieving a very low dynamic Ron dispersion (below 20%) and performance and reproducibility. Stress tests have also shown a good device reliability. Imec’s technology is ready for prototyping, customised low-volume production as well as for te...
Demystifying the impact of the IoT
Cees Links, GM of Qorvo Wireless Connectivity Business Unit, Formerly CEO and founder of GreenPeak Technologies explains some of the expectations and fears surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), and whether or not they are justified.
3D chip merges computing with data storage
As embedded intelligence is finding its way into ever more areas of our lives, fields ranging from autonomous driving to personalised medicine are generating huge amounts of data. But just as the flood of data is reaching massive proportions, the ability of computer chips to process it into useful information is stalling.Now, researchers at Stanford University and MIT have built a new chip to overcome this hurdle.