At the recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs.
Electronics
Nanophotonics system allows optoelectrical single chip integration
IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.
Creating p-n junctions in graphene films
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
Nanotechnology Company Liquipel Announces New Technology and Branding Licenses
Electronics coating firm expands business in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Point of Light: nanofocusing in plasmonic waveguides
Engineers create a device that can focus light into a point of just a few nanometers, with applications in computing, communications, and imaging.
Bond for Future Ships, iMacs Has ONR Roots
A state-of-the-art welding process refined for use in naval shipbuilding by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has crossed over to the world of computing.
Copper, gold and tin for efficient chips
New galvanisation process from Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS offers promise of better LEDs.
Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
KLA-Tencor Introduces Next-Generation LED Patterned Wafer Inspection Tool
ICOS WI-2280 designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED applications.
"4D transistor" gives glimpse at future of computing
Purdue and Harvard researchers create stackable indium-gallium-arsenide transistors.
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