High SNR Microphones Are Transforming Laptops Into All-Round Communication Hubs


Large portions of the workforce continue to work from home or in hybrid models. Although some organizations are largely getting back to ‘normal’, many people have grown accustomed to meeting online. Without face-to-face meetings in the office, productive and efficient communication relies on good tools, from video conferencing software to computer hardware. Two decades ag... » read more

Microsphere-assisted, nanospot, non-destructive metrology for semiconductor devices


Abstract "As smaller structures are being increasingly adopted in the semiconductor industry, the performance of memory and logic devices is being continuously improved with innovative 3D integration schemes as well as shrinking and stacking strategies. Owing to the increasing complexity of the design architectures, optical metrology techniques including spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) and ref... » read more

High-Speed Signaling Drill-Down


Chip interconnect standards have received a lot of attention lately, with parallel versions proliferating for chiplets and serial versions moving to higher speeds. The lowliest characteristic of these interconnect schemes is the physical signaling format. Having been static at NRZ (non-return-to-zero) for decades, change is underway. “Multiple approaches are likely to emerge,” said Brig ... » read more