Electronics & Semiconductors
The continual scaling of Si-based transistors is challenged by short channel effects that limit further gate length scaling. Field-effect transistors (FETs) with semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2, such ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Computer Sciences
In April 2020, imec introduced the world's first chip to process radar signals using a spiking recurrent neural network (SNN). Its flagship use-case? The creation of a smart, low-power multi-sensor perception system for drones ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Business
The first automobile, a marvel of technological innovation, hit the road nearly 150 years ago. Undoubtedly a great achievement—yet one that pales in comparison to the challenges car manufacturers face today.
Oct 3, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The growing popularity of data-intensive applications, such as cloud services, video streaming, high-performance computing and 5G, poses ever-increasing demands on optical communication networks within data centers. Here, ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Telecom
Considering the seismic shocks that our world has endured over the last two years alone, it seems unwise to engage in predictions about what it will look like in ten years or more.
Sep 29, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Imec researchers have developed a prototype high-resolution short-wave-infrared (SWIR) image sensor with record small pixel pitch of 1.82 µm. It is based on a thin-film photodetector that is monolithically integrated on ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
This week, at the 2021 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI 2021), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, demonstrated for the first time fully functional ...
Jun 16, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Bias temperature instability (BTI) is a well-known aging mechanism in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), which can severely affect the device performance and reliability. It typically manifests ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Imec has presented the smallest silicon finFET that functions as a biosensor. Achieving ultrasmall dimensions (13 nm fin width and 50 nm gate length) and fabricated with a CMOS-compatible process flow in imec's 300 mm cleanroom, ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Engineering
This week, at the 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a deterministic write scheme for voltage-controlled ...
Jun 16, 2020
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