Research Bits: Oct. 22


3D-printed active electronics Researchers from MIT demonstrated fully 3D-printed semiconductor-free resettable fuses. Produced using standard 3D printing hardware and an inexpensive, biodegradable polymer filament doped with copper nanoparticles, the device can perform the same switching functions as the semiconductor-based transistors used for processing operations in active electronics. A... » read more

Research Bits: Aug. 13


3D X-ray of chip interiors Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute, EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zurich, and the University of Southern California used X-rays to take non-destructive, three-dimensional images of the inside of a microchip at 4 nanometer resolution. To create the images, the researchers relied on a technique called ptychography, in which a computer combines many individual images ... » read more

Research Bits: July 8


2D TFETS for neuromorphic computing Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara and Intel Labs used 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)-based tunnel-field-effect transistors (TFETs) in a neuromorphic computing platform, bringing the energy requirements to within two orders of magnitude (about 100 times) the amount used by the human brain. The 2D TFETs have lower off-sta... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 5


Wafer-scale graphene In an attempt to make graphene more useful for photonic devices, researchers from CNIT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Tecip Institute, University of Cambridge, and Graphene Flagship Associated Member and spin-off CamGraphIC developed a wafer-scale graphene fabrication technology that uses predetermined graphene single-crystal templates, allowing for integration in... » read more

System Bits: Jan. 29


Quantum physics make hybrid semiconductors glow Hybrid semiconducting materials have quantum properties capable of bringing significant changes to light-emitting diode lighting and monitors, along with photovoltaic solar cells, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology report. Physical chemists worked with halide organic-inorganic perovskite (HOIP), which combines a crystal lattice wi... » read more