tag: Stanford

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 11
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Storing solar energy Engineers at Stanford have designed a catalyst that could help produce vast quantities of pure hydrogen through electrolysis – the process of passing electricity through water to break hydrogen loose from oxygen in H2O. Pure hydrogen (H2) is a major commodity chemical that is generally derived from natural gas. Tens of millions of tons of hydrogen are produced each ye... » read more

Materials Matter
By SEMI - 18 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

By Pushkar Apte Despite formidable technical and economic challenges, the semiconductor technology engine continues steaming ahead, changing the way we work and play in amazing ways. This engine primarily ran on the “Moore’s Law track” for nearly half a century – but now, the tracks are diverging for digital logic and memory, and “More-than-Moore” devices. Continuing progress requi... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Aug. 26
By Mark LaPedus - 26 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Smokestack metrology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has nearly completed the construction of one of the world's more unusual measurement systems. The organization is devising a 50-meter horizontal smokestack at its campus in Gaithersburg, Md. The new facility will accurately determine the amount of gases discharged from smokestacks at coal-fired power plants and o... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 22
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Lasers to replace quartz in electronics? While nearly all electronics today require devices called oscillators that create precise frequencies, future high-end navigation systems, radar systems, and even possibly tomorrow's consumer electronics will require references beyond the performance of quartz, according to researchers at Caltech. In fact, these researchers have developed a method to... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: July 15
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

Improving battery performance with sand Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times using sand as the key material. The researchers, who said this is a low cost, non-toxic, environmentally-friendly way to produce high performance lithium ion battery a... » read more

System Bits: July 1
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

In the quest to build gadgets that can survive the abuse, engineers have been testing electronic systems based on new materials that are both flexible and switchable – that is, capable of toggling between two electrical states: on-off, one-zero, the binary commands that can program all things digital. At the same time, three Stanford researchers believe that they’ve discovered just such ... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: June 17
By Mark LaPedus - 17 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 1

PiezoFET debuts The University of Twente MESA+ Research Institute and SolMateS have put a new twist on the finFET. A piezoelectric stressor layer has been deposited around the finFET, thereby enabling what researchers call the PiezoFET. The PiezoFET could enable steep sub-threshold slope devices. In the lab, this device was also able to reduce the leakage by a factor of five. [caption id... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: May 27
By Ann Mutschler - 27 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Battery captures waste heat, converts it to electricity While vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants, researchers around the world have spent decades looking for ways to harness some of this wasted energy, according to engineering researchers at Stanford and MIT. They pointed out that most of these efforts have focused on thermoelectric d... » read more

System Bits: May 20
By Ann Mutschler - 20 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Re-routing noise away from measurement Today, we are capable of measuring the position of an object with unprecedented accuracy, but quantum physics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle place fundamental limits on our ability to measure. Noise that arises as a result of the quantum nature of the fields used to make those measurements imposes what is called the "standard quantum limit," whi... » read more

System Bits: April 22
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

To mimic human cognition In the field of neuromorphic engineering, researchers study computing techniques that could someday mimic human cognition and to this end, electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently published a "roadmap" that details innovative analog-based techniques that could make it possible to build a practical neuromorphic computer. [caption id="attac... » read more

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