Category: Technology

Picosun Group, global provider of leading AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, reports record performance of silicon-integrated, three-dimensional deep trench microcapacitors manufactured using its ALD technology. Increasing efficiency and performance...

Researchers at Penn State have developed a fast charging technique to charge a battery in in electric vehicle in just ten minutes. By Nick Flaherty @ www.eenewspower.com The fast charging technique uses a self-heating battery design to provide faster charging at 60ºC, while cooling...

A quantum computer reportedly beat the most powerful supercomputers at one type of calculation. Google researchers report that their quantum computer, Sycamore, has performed a calculation that can’t be achieved with any classical computer. The quantum chip (shown) must be cooled to...

An industry’s first, the 12-layer 3D-TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology developed by Samsung Electronics enables the stacking of 12 DRAM chips using more than 60,000 TSV holes, while maintaining the same thickness as current 8-layer chips. By Julien Happich @...

Wi-Fi 6, the newest generation of Wi-Fi connectivity, reached a significant milestone a few days ago with official certification. The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) is the not-for-profit industry body for the Wi-Fi ecosystem whose members include BT, AT&T and Google. The...

A team of researchers reports on a dynamically tuneable lens capable of achieving almost any complex optical function. Camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement, and the...

Did you know that researchers are looking for an alternative to silicon? Did you know in principle that Carbon Nanotubes processor could run three times faster while consuming about one-third of the energy of their silicon predecessor? The Engineers at MIT and Analog Devices have created...

New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward next-generation computers. by Rob Matheson | MIT News Office After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor...