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Quantum Physics Oct 4, 2016

More stable qubits in perfectly normal silicon

The power of future quantum computers stems from the use of qubits, or quantum bits, which do not have to be either 0 or 1, but can also be 0 and 1 at the same time. It is not yet clear on which technology these qubits in ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Dec 10, 2015

Imec boosts performance of beyond-silicon devices

At this week's IEEE IEDM conference, nano-electronics research center imec demonstrates record enhancement of novel InGaAs Gate-All-Around (GAA) channel devices integrated on 300mm Silicon and explores emerging tunnel devices ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Jul 9, 2015

Researchers produce industry's first 7nm node test chips

An alliance led by IBM Research today announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry's first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES ...

Space Exploration Oct 28, 2014

SpaceX spacecraft splashdown, starring Space Station science

The return of the SpaceX Dragon brings with it plant samples, data that may impact your facial cream composition and validation of a new way of creating on Earth crystals that are used in our daily electronic devices. This ...

Engineering Oct 8, 2014

Fujitsu Laboratories develops lower-cost millimeter-wave radar for automobiles

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has produced a transceiver chip for millimeter-wave radar in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) implementation, which is a semiconductor process that enables costs ...

Quantum Physics Aug 25, 2014

Quantum meets classical: Qubit fabricated with integrated micromagnet increases speed of quantum manipulation in silicon

(Phys.org) —The ubiquitous classical digital computer encodes data in bits (a portmanteau of binary and digits) in either a 0 or 1 state. On the other hand, while a quantum computer also uses 0/1 data representation, these ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Jun 6, 2014

IBM preps new wireless chip technology to allow mobile operators to clear the data bottleneck

IBM today introduced the fifth generation of semiconductor technology specialized for high performance communications. The company's latest silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process is designed to enable ever-increasing ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Feb 19, 2014

Silicon-germanium chip sets new speed record

(Phys.org) —A research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest silicon-based device to date. ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Mar 27, 2013

World record silicon-based millimeter-wave power amplifiers

Two teams of DARPA performers have achieved world record power output levels using silicon-based technologies for millimeter-wave power amplifiers. RF power amplifiers are used in communications and sensor systems to boost ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Dec 12, 2012

Path towards non-Si devices presented at IEDM 2012

At this week's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs. Imec showed that channel mobility can be boosted by growing non-Si channels ...

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