FLEX 2023 Takeaways: Flexible And Printed Electronics Move Into Electronics Manufacturing

By Gity Samadi - 17 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 0

By Gity Samadi and Paul Semenza The FLEX Conference, held again this year in conjunction with SEMICON West 2023, provided numerous examples of continued developments in flexible, printed, and flexible hybrid electronics technologies applied to sensing, robotics, communications, and other applications. At the same time, there is growing focus on applying various additive manufacturing equipme... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Aug. 27

By Jesse Allen - 27 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 0

The sound of typing Cybersecurity researchers at the Southern Methodist University found a way to detect what a user is typing based on sensor data collected from a nearby smartphone. The team found that acoustic signals produced by typing on a computer keyboard can successfully be picked up by a smartphone, which can then be processed to determine which keys were struck – even in noisy conf... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 2

By Jesse Allen - 02 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

DNA programming Computer scientists at California Institute of Technology, University of California, Davis, Maynooth University, and Harvard University created a library of DNA molecules that can self-assemble to compute a variety of algorithms. Each molecule represents a six-bit binary number. The library created by the team is made up of around 700 short pieces, or tiles, of DNA. Each DNA... » read more

System Bits: Dec. 27

By Ann Mutschler - 27 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Melting quantum crystal of electrons Confirming a fundamental phase transition in quantum mechanics that was theoretically proposed more than 80 years ago but not experimentally documented until now, MIT researchers reported that they’ve observed a highly ordered crystal of electrons in a semiconducting material and documented its melting, much like ice thawing into water. The team said i... » read more

System Bits: Aug. 16

By Ann Mutschler - 16 Aug, 2016 - Comments: 0

Record-breaking quantum logic gate Reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer, University of Oxford researchers have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision. They reminded that quantum computers, which function according to the laws of quantum physics, have the potential to dwarf the processing power of today's computers, able to pro... » read more

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FLEX 2023 Takeaways: Flexible And Printed Electronics Move Into Electronics Manufacturing

Power/Performance Bits: Aug. 27

Power/Performance Bits: April 2

System Bits: Dec. 27

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