ASICs boost performance and reduce energy for specific tasks better than general chips. They vary in design from semi-custom to fully specialized, affecting cost and performance. Tech giants like ...

To make stretchable electronics, engineers must start with materials that can tolerate strain. That’s why the ability to endure being stretched is a sought-after quality in flexible electronics, ...

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS Silicon photonics (SiPh) is an established platform for realizing complex and powerful PICs. Leveraging the high ...

With the incessant down-scaling of electronics, traditional semiconductors like Si are encountered with insurmountable hurdles to maintain performance increase without bringing about additional issues ...

The miniaturization of electronic systems and the diffusion of components that generate a lot of heat make the role of thermal analysis more and more important as a tool to guarantee the good ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces have spawned massive novel applications in free-space optics. However, recent research also indicates that they possess prominent ...

In 1958, the American free-market economist Leonard E Read published his famous essay I, Pencil, in which he made his point ...

Different challenges have to be overcome when designing integrated circuits. Besides schematic and layout design work, verification in view of the non-ideal behavior of circuits and semiconductor ...