https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/semiconductors-news/ en-us The latest news on electronics and semiconductor technology developments Metasurfaces are ultrathin optical components engineered with arrays of nanoscale structures that can control light in ways that are difficult for conventional optics. Unlike traditional optical components, which typically rely on their shape and thickness, metasurfaces manipulate light using carefully designed nanostructures patterned on a flat surface. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-programmable-metasurface-keyboard-dynamic-holograms.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:08 EDT news703777321 Over the past decade, perovskite LEDs have become increasingly vibrant and affordable to produce. With careful tweaks to their chemical composition, these crystal-based light emitters can be tuned across the visible spectrum—matching and sometimes even beating rival LED materials for producing red and green light. However, blue light has remained a holdout, keeping full-color perovskite displays out of reach. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-fine-tuned-perovskites-blue-vibrant.html Engineering Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:15:58 EDT news703772133 Publishing in the journal npj Flexible Electronics, researchers from Kyushu University have developed prototype thin-film electronic modules that can automatically connect and disconnect with one another. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-prototype-thin-electronics-dock-undock.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:00:02 EDT news703402956 High-frequency waves classified as terahertz occupy a relatively underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared light and microwaves. Researchers have long recognized their unique potential for applications including ultrafast wireless communication, security screening, remote sensing and medical imaging. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-powerful-terahertz-semiconductor-chip.html Hardware Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:35:26 EDT news703427533 Imagine using a wearable device so thin and discreet that you'd hardly be aware you were wearing it. Now Tufts engineers have created flexible electronics that could do just that. Made of thread-based integrated circuits that can bend, coil, stretch and conform to the body's contours and movements, the devices are designed to exist free-form, sewn into clothing or wrapped around curved and movable surfaces. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-thread-based-electronics-conform-body.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:40:07 EDT news703149198 Conventional computers process and store information using separate components, known as a processor and memory unit. Because transferring data from one component to the other can be energy-consuming, many electronics engineers have been trying to develop new devices that rely on a single component to store and process information. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-fault-tolerant-analog-memory.html Hardware Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:45:56 EDT news703143861 Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery to deep-sea exploration but remain held back by a fundamental constraint. To sense their surroundings and react, most soft robots rely on separate electronic sensors, signal-processing circuits and powered actuators, all coordinated by computers. This chain of components adds weight, complexity and points of failure, particularly in wet, hot or high-pressure settings where electronics are highly susceptible to disruption. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-soft-sensor-robotic-action-electronics.html Robotics Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:20:01 EDT news702822241 The brain's cerebellum doesn't waste energy analyzing every moment. Instead, it constantly monitors the world for the unexpected—and springs into action only when something suddenly changes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-brain-hardware-faster-power-anomaly.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:04:22 EDT news702903799 Organic semiconductors are paving the way for a new generation of lightweight, flexible electronics, including bendable displays, printable circuits, wearable sensors and devices that harvest energy from their surroundings. A key factor behind the performance of these technologies is doping—a process in which molecules are introduced into a semiconductor to control the number of charge carriers it can support. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-semiconductor-doping-flexible-electronics.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:10:01 EDT news702896423 Worldwide, discarded electronic toys, computers and smartphones are becoming an increasingly significant source of electronic waste. Electronic circuits are based on printed circuit boards (PCBs), which are typically made of glass fiber-reinforced fossil epoxy resin, making them difficult to recycle, let alone biodegrade. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-compostable-circuit-boards-citric-acid.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:09 EDT news702888613 Perovskite semiconductors efficiently convert sunlight into electrical energy; they are also inexpensive and extremely lightweight. A team at HZB has developed a triple-junction solar cell comprising different perovskite semiconductors, with a novel bilayer of graphene oxide (GO) and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) as the hole conductor. This bilayer significantly increases both efficiency and long-term stability. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-perovskite-triple-junction-solar-cells.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:04 EDT news702711383 Ladder-type oligothiophenes are an important class of sulfur-containing π-conjugated molecules. Because their fused, ladder-like structures can support efficient electronic interactions, they are widely studied as core motifs for organic semiconductors, organic field-effect transistors, flexible electronics and related molecular materials. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-molecular-ladders-electronics.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:12 EDT news702808415 A Korean research team has developed a technology that enables the stable stacking of more than 10 ultrathin semiconductor chips, each only one-fifth the thickness of a human hair. A research team successfully achieved an integration density approximately four times higher than that of commercial high-bandwidth memory (HBM) through a novel process that simultaneously transfers chips and forms metallic interconnections. The study was published in the journal Results in Engineering. The team was led by Prof. Seok Kim and integrated Ph.D. student Uhyeon Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), together with Dr. Hohyun Keum of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-memory-denser-ultrathin-chip.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:03 EDT news702737784 With help from a small transistor, a team of researchers led by Professor Fengnian Xia figured out a way to make a type of thermal imaging technology dramatically more accurate. The results are published in Nature Sensors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-small-transistor-sharpens-thermal-cameras.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:50:01 EDT news702724674 Most contemporary portable electronics, including laptops, smartphones and smart watches, are powered by batteries that need to be recharged daily or every few days. Over the past decade, however, some engineers have been exploring the possibility of developing battery-free electronic devices that autonomously derive electricity from renewable sources, such as sunlight, indoor lighting or heat. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-powered-chip-harvests-energy-chemicals.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:20:02 EDT news702646871 Neuromorphic computing is a computational paradigm that mimics the way the brain functions in terms of both architecture and dynamics. It creates electronic circuits that store and process information in an integrated manner, similar to networks of neurons and synapses. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-oxide-based-chip-element-merges.html Engineering Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:20:05 EDT news702563789 Microelectronics is currently undergoing major changes: The industry is working on promising new materials and chip architectures. But this also means that novel electronic materials must be tested carefully to ensure that they will function reliably for a sufficiently long time during operation. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-flawed-chip-reliability-misjudge-insulators.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:00:11 EDT news702563642 A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) has recently overcome a technological bottleneck that has persisted for more than a decade. They successfully "turned waste into treasure" by recycling triplet excitons and converting them into effective charge carriers for electricity generation. Using this new approach, they achieved an efficiency of 20.5% in OPV cells. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-recycling-triplet-excitons-boost-photovoltaics.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:04 EDT news702554064 Superconductivity, a phenomenon in which electricity flows without resistance, is considered the core of quantum computers and next-generation power technologies. However, the exact states electrons undergo before superconductivity emerges have not yet been fully elucidated. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-superconductivity-unveiling-hidden-electrons.html Electronics & Semiconductors Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:00:06 EDT news702032602 The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing measurements from a set of experimental thin films sent to him by Darrell Schlom, the Tisch University Professor in Cornell University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-impossible-loss-tunable-dielectric-microwave.html Electronics & Semiconductors Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:20:01 EDT news701698635 Transistors, small semiconductor-based switches that control the flow of electricity, are central components of all electronic devices, from computers to smartphones, wearables, sensors and smart appliances. Over the past decades, electronics engineers have been continuously working to boost the speed and performance of transistors while also reducing their size. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-dog-bone-2d-nanoribbon-transistors.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:30:01 EDT news701690507 For the first time, a research team has demonstrated an artificial intelligence semiconductor technology that integrates the core functions of generative AI into a single device platform based on ferroelectric memory. This technology is significant as the first demonstration of implementing the two essential functions required for generative AI—random sampling and stable computation—within a single memory array. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ferroelectric-memory-enables-chip-sample.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:00:12 EDT news701620589 IBM unveiled new semiconductor technology Thursday that the company says could deliver computer chips with 50% better performance while dramatically lowering power consumption. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ibm-unveils-nanometer-chip-tech.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:24:42 EDT news701605310 A supercomputer in China now outranks its U.S. counterparts as the world's most powerful, marking the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation's technological prowess. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-chinese-supercomputer-displaces-machines-world.html Hardware Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:02 EDT news701491743 The global semiconductor market is approaching US$1 trillion in annual sales, driven by growing demand for faster computers, smarter AI systems and more powerful electronic devices. Singapore, which produces one in 10 of the world's chips, has a direct stake in sustaining that trajectory. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-atom-thin-coating-tackles-key.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:40:01 EDT news700903381 Inside computer chips are billions of tiny transistors made from silicon. But the material is approaching its limits. In an effort to build smaller, more capable devices, researchers are exploring how they might build transistors with other materials alongside silicon, including a class of extremely thin materials called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). One of the leading TMD candidates is a material called molybdenum disulfide. It is only three atoms thick: one layer of molybdenum sandwiched between two layers of sulfur. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-simple-coating-generation-chip-transistors.html Engineering Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:20:06 EDT news700833721 AI data centers are power-hungry. Not only do artificial intelligence computations consume enormous amounts of electricity, but a significant amount of energy is also required to cool the semiconductor chips that heat up during operation. As AI chips continue to deliver higher performance, the amount of heat they generate increases rapidly. As a result, conventional air cooling and external copper heat spreaders are approaching their practical limits. To address this challenge, a KAIST research team has developed an ultra-high-efficiency liquid-cooling technology that cools semiconductor chips from within. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-liquid-cooling-technology-semiconductor-chips.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:30:03 EDT news700762501 A tiny new chip could give cameras and sensing systems a far sharper view of the world, helping them detect subtle differences in materials and environments that standard color imaging systems cannot see. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-tiny-chip-cameras-hidden.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:00:01 EDT news700757581 The world's power grid is straining under the surge in electricity demand from data centers, electric vehicles and renewable energy. And a century-old technology, the power transformer, must support this dramatic increase. A particularly weak link in this is the potential for insulation breakdown, the most frequent indicator of power transformer failures. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-nanoengineered-wood-insulation.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:40:06 EDT news700740673 Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Prof. Yongtaek Hong from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a high-performance transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) incorporating highly conductive transparent metal mesh top electrodes fabricated using a selective metal deposition technique. The research was published in the journal Materials Horizons and was selected as the outside front cover image for the issue. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-transparent-oled-advance-ar-displays.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:20:03 EDT news700488421