https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/semiconductors-news/ en-us The latest news on electronics and semiconductor technology developments The ability to change focus instantly is something most people take for granted. Every day, our eyes effortlessly switch between reading a book, recognizing a face across the room or watching a bird fly overhead. Replicating that remarkable technological flexibility, however, has proved far more difficult. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-graphene-powered-soft-lens-pave.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:20:01 EDT news705596001 Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF group institution—and their colleagues from State Marine Technical University and others have found a way to improve the balance between the mechanical strength and ductility of 3D-printed aluminum bronze. An alloy of copper and aluminum with a minor addition of iron, this material is a promising candidate for making additively manufactured heat exchange units that cool sensitive electronic components, such as processors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-treatment-strength-ductility-3d-aluminum.html Engineering Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:16 EDT news705231566 The same overheating problem that happens to our laptops also plagues computer servers and data centers around the world—and heat management is only getting harder as computer chips get more compact and powerful. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-electronics.html Engineering Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:01 EDT news705228241 For more than 10 years, atomically thin semiconductors have been considered among the most promising alternatives to silicon. Only a single atom thick, these materials possess strong electrical characteristics and could facilitate the development of faster, smaller and more energy-efficient transistors that surpass the limits of current chip technology. However, despite significant advances in discovering new two-dimensional semiconductors, one persistent engineering obstacle continues to hinder progress. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-atomic-interface-path-atomically-thin.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:20:07 EDT news705165154 A research team led by Jung Kyu Kim, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (co-first authors: Ph.D. candidates Dong Zhang and Jong Hun Kim), in collaboration with Min-Cheol Kim, a professor at Sookmyung Women's University, announced the development of a novel electrode material that overcomes the chronic limitation of low operating voltage in aqueous electrolyte-based supercapacitors and significantly improves their energy density. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-atom-based-electrode-significantly-voltage.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:40:01 EDT news705140343 Soft sensors convert movement, temperature and moisture into electrical signals. Repeated bending and friction can cause their metal conductors to peel from the underlying polymer, while physical damage, such as cuts, can disable the device. Commonly used petroleum-derived substrates are also environmentally unfriendly because they are difficult to recycle. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-recyclable-substrate-durable-soft-sensors.html Engineering Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:00:04 EDT news705076321 A research team led by Professor Kang Bosoek of the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT), Department of Nano Engineering and Department of Semiconductor Convergence Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University has developed two new molecular design technologies to enhance the electrical conductivity of organic electronic materials. One technology generates a greater number of charge carriers within a polymer, while the other connects transport pathways so that charge can move without interruption. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-polar-molecules-polymer-bridges-key.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:52:50 EDT news705073895 Semiconductors such as silicon are the cornerstone of today's essential technologies, but the variety of materials available to power devices is limited. While metal oxides are durable, only a small subset are semiconducting because they are naturally insulating. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-resilient-semiconductor-materials.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:20:06 EDT news705071342 Molecules are among the smallest building blocks available for making next-generation devices. Their unique, customizable properties enable promising applications in emerging computing, sensing, optical and quantum technologies. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-molecules-reliable-electronic-devices-fabrication.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:40:03 EDT news704985721 Wearable electronics are gradually evolving from simple sensors into feature-rich devices that can make basic decisions and support medical care in real time. To fully realize this vision, wearable systems must be soft and versatile enough to adapt naturally to the body while performing tasks without sacrificing comfort or reliability. Creating electronics that combine flexibility and computing in a single device remains a difficult challenge. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-transistor-wearable-electronics-roles-salt.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:40:04 EDT news704979241 Recently, the field of magnetics has seen the proposal of a new class of magnetism called altermagnetism, which could allow advances in miniaturizing and improving RAM architecture in computers. Rice University's Ming Yi, together with collaborators Bharat Jalan of the University of Minnesota and Milan Radovic of the Paul Scherrer Institute, recently published a paper in Science Advances showing that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin-film form, in which the material is prepared as a thin slice only a few atomic layers thick. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-magnetism-quantum-materials.html Electronics & Semiconductors Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:40:01 EDT news704706258 A research team led by professor Il Jeon of the Department of Nano Engineering and the Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) at Sungkyunkwan University, including Dr. Sihyeok Kim and Dr. Jang Woo Lee, has developed a next-generation artificial intelligence semiconductor device capable of independently implementing long-term and short-term memory within a single device using surface acoustic waves (SAWs). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-reconfigurable-ai-device-term-memory.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:04 EDT news704457181 Since the first practical organic light-emitting diode (OLED) was developed in 1987 by Ching W. Tang and Steven A. VanSlyke at Eastman Kodak Company in the U.S., OLED technology has come a long way. The original device used two thin organic layers to produce green light when electricity was applied, demonstrating that organic materials could be used to create practical light-emitting devices. Today, OLEDs are widely used in smartphone and television displays as well as lighting, with continuous improvements in efficiency and lifespan. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-large-scale-crystals-revolutionize-future.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:20 EDT news704374487 Building next-generation semiconductors and low-power electronic devices requires precisely stacking materials with different functions. In this process, it is essential to preserve each material's intrinsic properties, as well as the interface where the two materials meet, without damage. Layered van der Waals materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have attracted considerable attention as next-generation semiconductor platforms because their layers interact through weak forces, enabling different materials to be stacked while maintaining atomically clean interfaces. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-temperature-technique-crystal-aligned-semiconductor.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:05 EDT news704371321 China's leading memory chipmaker CXMT became the most valuable company in mainland China after soaring more than 500% on its market debut Monday, underscoring how AI demand is boosting the semiconductor sector. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-china-memory-chipmaker-cxmt-soar.html Business Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:00:01 EDT news704339252 Researchers have found a way to speed up components that control light polarization in optical communication and computing. Polarization is a property of light that can carry additional information along with the primary signal, enabling higher data throughput. State-of-the-art components that control polarization in optical circuits have to be physically rotated many times a second, wasting precious time. Instead, this can be achieved by varying the temperature of the material the light passes through. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-prototype-device-polarizes-denser-optical.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:40:02 EDT news704039821 The same class of chemical additive that makes plastic wrap pliable and vinyl flooring soft could be the key to unlocking the next generation of wearable displays. Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have discovered that blending a common plastic softener into light-emitting polymer films makes those films both brighter and more stretchable. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-common-plastic-additive-stretchable-oled.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:09 EDT news703868041 A research team led by Hyun Oh Song, a professor in Seoul National University College of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Samsung AI Center, has developed "Rule2DRC," an AI agent technology that automatically generates inspection codes required for semiconductor design verification. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-agent-technology-automate-semiconductor.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:20:09 EDT news703782302 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 The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and related computing infrastructure has exposed the limited bandwidth of conventional electrical interconnects in integrated circuits as a major bottleneck to system performance. Silicon photonics, which transmits data using photons instead of electrons, has emerged as a promising approach for overcoming bandwidth and latency limitations. The platform is now widely used for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), particularly in telecom and datacom applications. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-highlights-micro-advanced-silicon-photonics.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:20:01 EDT news703749781 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 Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-taiwan-chipmaker-tsmc-pledges-billion.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:30:02 EDT news703394273 India approved a new semiconductor program Wednesday, offering more than $13 billion in financial assistance to accelerate local chip production as it seeks to become a global electronics powerhouse. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-india-billion-semiconductor.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:40:10 EDT news703331447 Robotic transporters carrying silicon wafers whizz by on overhead rails at a new factory that Kioxia, one of Japan's most valuable companies, hopes can help it meet overwhelming AI-driven demand. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-ignites-sector-japan-chipmaker.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:40:17 EDT news703308230 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 When the pathways through which electricity flows inside a semiconductor become blocked, device performance declines and power loss increases. A Korean research team has developed a new structure that could resolve this "electrical bottleneck" and, for the first time, directly confirmed that electric charges flow continuously. This achievement is expected to become a key technology for improving the performance and power efficiency of future semiconductors, including AI semiconductors and ultra-low-power semiconductors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-clue-electrical-bottleneck-semiconductors.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:20:05 EDT news703149040 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