Morning Overview on MSN

A tiny new chip design could accelerate quantum progress

Quantum computing has long promised breakthroughs in chemistry, logistics, finance, and climate modeling, but the hardware ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN

Scientists use atomic switches to reliably connect individual molecules to electrodes

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...
Nanowerk

Graphene transistors turn nanoscale flaws into unclonable digital fingerprints

Atomic-scale imperfections in graphene transistors generate unique wireless fingerprints that cannot be copied or predicted, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What’s Next for 2.5D Packaging?

Interposers are effectively platforms on which multiple components can be assembled — like a micro-sized PCB. The primary material today is silicon, and their sizes, even when built on older process ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Research Bits: Dec. 16

While previous p-bit proposals included an analog component and DAC, the new research offers an all-digital p-bit design. “The reliance on analog signals was holding back progress,” said Shunsuke ...

Predictive framework for 2D materials puts low-cost, printable electronics on the horizon

Imagine wearable health sensors, smart packaging, flexible displays, or disposable IoT controllers all manufactured like ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer of ultra-pure silicon. The bottom-most layer, also known as the front end ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists find that a ‘design limitation’ in transistors actually improves performance

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, according to new research from the University of Surrey and JOANNEUM RESEARCH ...
IEEE

Silicon-on-Insulator Lateral Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor: Current Technologies and Prospects

Abstract: Compared with the discrete insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), the silicon-on-insulator lateral IGBT (SOI-LIGBT) owns the advantage of being integrated with peripheral circuits easily ...
IEEE

GCN-RL Circuit Designer: Transferable Transistor Sizing with Graph Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: Automatic transistor sizing is a challenging problem in circuit design due to the large design space, complex performance tradeoffs, and fast technology advancements. Although there have ...