Reconfigurability and NTC-based Signal Modulation Within a Single Ferroelectric TFET


A new technical paper titled "Reconfigurable signal modulation in a ferroelectric tunnel field-effect transistor" was published by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. Abstract: "Reconfigurable transistors are an emerging device technology adding new functionalities while lowering the circuit architecture complexity. However, most investigations focus on digital applications. Here, we ... » read more

Smelling The Metaverse Via Wearable Wireless Interfaces


A new technical paper titled "Soft, miniaturized, wireless olfactory interface for virtual reality" was published by researchers at  City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Science Park, Beihang University, and others. Abstract "Recent advances in virtual reality (VR) technologies accelerate the creation of a flawless 3D virtual world to provide frontier social platform for human. Equall... » read more

The Degradation of Li-ion Batteries: A Review


A technical paper titled "Battery Degradation in Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles: A Survey Study" was published by researchers at Clemson University and Operation Technology Inc. Abstract (partial) "This paper explains the detailed degradation mechanism inside the battery first. Then, the major factors responsible for the degradation and their effects on the battery during the operati... » read more

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor


A technical paper titled "Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor" was published by researchers at Nagoya University. Abstract "A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential as a power semiconductor device. However, a GaN GIT has a diode characteristic at the gate-source, and a corresponding gate drive circuit is thus required. Several studies in the lite... » read more

New Low-Temp Growth & Fabrication Technology Allowing Integration of 2D Materials Directly Onto A Silicon Circuit (MIT)


A new technical paper titled "Low-thermal-budget synthesis of monolayer molybdenum disulfide for silicon back-end-of-line integration on a 200 mm platform" was published by researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Ericsson Research. According to this MIT news article: "Growing 2D materials directly onto a silicon CMOS wafer has posed a major challenge because the process u... » read more

GaN Power Devices: Stability, Reliability and Robustness Issues


A technical paper titled "Stability, Reliability, and Robustness of GaN Power Devices: A Review" was published by researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Kyushu University. "Gallium nitride (GaN) devices are revolutionarily advancing the efficiency, frequency, and form factor of power electronics. However, t... » read more

EPFL’s Open Source Single-Core RISC-V Microcontroller for Edge Computing


A new technical paper titled "X-HEEP: An Open-Source, Configurable and Extendible RISC-V Microcontroller" was published by researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Abstract: "In this work, we present eXtendible Heterogeneous Energy-Efficient Platform (X-HEEP), a configurable and extendible single-core RISC-V-based ultra-low-power microcontroller. X-HEEP can be used ... » read more

Hardware-Accelerated RTL Simulator


A technical paper titled "Manticore: Hardware-Accelerated RTL Simulation with Static Bulk-Synchronous Parallelism" was published by researchers at EPFL, University of Tokyo, Sharif University, and Indian Institute of Technology. Abstract "The demise of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has revived interest in specialized computer architectures and accelerators. Verification and testing of thi... » read more

RISC-V Vectorization And Potential for HPC


A new technical paper titled "Test-driving RISC-V Vector hardware for HPC" was published by researchers at University of Edinburgh. Abstract: "Whilst the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) has been ratified, at the time of writing both hardware implementations and open source software support are still limited for vectorisation on RISC-V. This is important because vectorisation is crucial to obt... » read more

Overview Of EV Charging Infrastructure, The Role of Power Electronics, And Charging Technologies


A technical paper titled "Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration for Electromobility" was published by researchers at Universidad de los Andes, University of Cambridge, Duke University, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, University of Toronto, TU Delft, and University of Florence. Abstract "Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure will play a critical role in decarbonizat... » read more

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