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Graphene and 2D materials could move electronics beyond 'Moore's Law'
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
Recent theoretical and experimental advances and phenomena in studies of electronic spin transport in graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) materials have e...
Smart molecules could be key to computers with 100-times bigger memories
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered a single molecule 'switch' that can act like a transistor and offers the potential to store binary information - such as the 1s and ...
Carbon nanotube transistors make the leap from lab to factory floor
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors or CNFETs are more energy-efficient than silicon field-effect transistors and could be used to build new types of three...
DARPA Selects Teams to Increase Security of Semiconductor Supply Chain
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
Threats to IC chips are well known, and despite various measures designed to mitigate them, hardware developers have largely been slow to implement security sol...
Xilinx 'lifts off' with launch of industry's first 20nm space-grade FPGA for space applications
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
The XQRKU060 also brings high performance machine learning (ML) to space for the first time. A diverse portfolio of ML development tools supporting industry sta...
'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
Breaking reciprocity would allow us to build novel "one-way" components such as circulators and isolators that enable two-way communication, which could double ...
Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
Until now, electron spins and orbitals were thought to go hand in hand in a class of materials that's the cornerstone of modern information technology; you coul...
Huawei says 'survival' at stake after US chip restrictions
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
The Commerce Department said on Friday it was tightening sanctions on Huawei -- seen by Washington as a security risk -- to include denying it access to semicon...
Light, fantastic: the path ahead for faster, smaller computer processors
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
Already the gold standard for intercontinental communication through fibre-optics, photons are replacing electrons as the main carriers of information throughou...
US seek to cut off China's Huawei from global chip suppliers
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Commerce Department said it was broadening its sanctions enforcement to include semiconductor designs that are developed using US software and technology. O...
Taiwan chip giant TSMC to build $12bn US plant
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement is a win for President Donald Trump who has pushed for major chipmakers to set up shop inside the US. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Compan...
Atomically thin magnets for next generation spin and quantum electronics
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Rather than relying on making smaller and smaller electrical components, the new discovery, reported in the April 2020 issue of Nature Communications, potential...
NIST scientists create new recipe for single-atom transistors
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the University of Maryland have developed a step-by-step r...
A closer look at superconductors
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
"Higgs spectroscopy" could bring about a watershed as it reveals the dynamics of paired electrons in superconductors. An international research consortium cente...
Army researchers see path to quantum computing at room temperature
May 04, 2020 (SPX)
For years, solid-state quantum technology that operates at room temperature seemed remote. While the application of transparent crystals with optical nonlineari...
Smart chips for space
May 01, 2020 (ESA)
To save money on the high cost of fabrication, various chips designed by different companies and destined for multiple ESA projects are crammed onto the same si...
Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivity
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
The new route that the researchers discovered uses the phase winding around the circumference of a cylindrical superconductor surrounding a semiconductor, an ap...
The future of semiconductors is clear
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
This high mobility could allow engineers to create thin and even transparent tin dioxide semiconductors for use in next-generation LED lights, photovoltaic sola...
Wiring the quantum computer of the future
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
Quantum computers use the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to process significantly greater amounts of information much faster than classical computers. It is ...
Reducing the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
This issue gets even more severe in the model deployment phase, where deep neural networks need to be deployed on diverse hardware platforms, each with differen...
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