Top Stories

Mapping the Impact of Heat on Light
Thermal effects are difficult to quantify, but they can disrupt optical signals and reduce the lifespan of lasers.

Lithography Challenges for Fan-Out
Advanced packaging moves into high-volume mobile markets but requires more sophisticated equipment and lower-cost processes.

Reliability Becomes the Top Concern in Automotive
Extended lifetimes and advanced-node designs are driving new approaches, but not everything is going smoothly.

Blogs

Editor in Chief Ed Sperling argues that automakers are right to demand quality, but wrong in their approach, in The Paradox of Automotive Electronics.

Semiconductor Engineering’s Katherine Derbyshire predicts that the kitchen will be the next frontier for robots, in What’s For Dinner?

National Instruments’ Milton Lien and David Vye explain why creating automotive radar applications for mmWave demands special tools, in Antenna Array Design For ADAS.

Sponsor White Papers

Ion Beam Sputtering Deposition Of Fluoride Thin Films
A method of ion beam sputtering fluoride films for a production environment.

Failure Analysis Of A Product—Not Only A Component
An inexpensive and less time-consuming approach to failure analysis.

Design Of Phased-Array Antennas For MIMO & Beam-Steering Applications
Explore the basic phased-array theory and design considerations behind next-generation antenna systems.

And in case you missed it, check out last week’s IoT, Security and Automotive newsletter. Whether or not they’re the alternative LiDAR, VCSELs are not just for iPhones anymore; why designing 5G beamforming antennas will be hard; the race to multi-domain SoCs and decoding AI benchmarks for the edge.