A technical paper titled “A Review of the Recent Developments in the Fabrication Processes of CMOS Image Sensors for Smartphones” was published by researchers at Texas A&M University. “CMOS Image ...

Toshiba Corporation has announced a new method for suppressing thermal instability and current leakage in MOS transistors that support advanced CMOS fabrication at 45-nanometer gate lengths and beyond ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) For nanoelectronics applications like single-electron devices to become practical, everyday items, they need to move from the highly individual and customized fabrication process ...

Imec realized an integrated poly-SiGe-based piezoresistive pressure sensor directly fabricated above 0.13 µm copper (Cu) -backend CMOS technology. This represents not only the first integrated ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) There is a lot of buzz in the computer industry about so-called three-dimensional (3D) chips, promising higher performance with lower energy consumption, and paving the way for ...

Microfluidic devices play an important role in personalized diagnostic tools, which have been one of major trends in lab-chip developments 1. Among various personalized platforms, mobile systems have ...

CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon photonics, said project partners demonstrated a laser and a 10Gb/s silicon modulator using a process ...

IBM revealed vertical FET CMOS logic at a sub-45nm gate pitch on bulk silicon wafers at the IEEE International electron devices meeting in San Francisco this week. IBM’s VTFET with a vertical channel ...

The transistor, an invention that heralded a new era in electronics, is the key component of practically all integrated circuits (ICs) and microprocessors. The point-contact transistor that Walter H.

The rise of artificial intelligence and 5G networks places an increasing demand on the bandwidth and energy efficiency of optical interconnects. The ultimate solution may lie in combining electronic ...

Universities need to have access to technology for teaching their students who can be trained at least on the most up to date technology processes. Research Laboratories usually need to have high ...