https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/semiconductors-news/ en-us The latest news on electronics and semiconductor technology developments 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 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 South Korean chip giant SK hynix set pricing for its mega U.S. listing on Friday, raising $26.5 billion as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world's biggest-ever stock sales. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-sk-hynix-billion-powered-ai.html Business Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:23:36 EDT news702876198 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 The era of researchers manually searching for two-dimensional semiconductors, which are drawing attention as next-generation AI semiconductors, is coming to an end. KAIST researchers have automated semiconductor screening and device fabrication, analyzed thousands of devices, and revealed the relationship between thickness and performance that had long been difficult to identify. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-automated-2d-semiconductor-screening-power.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:40:06 EDT news702808016 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 Air is absolutely essential for human life, but for certain semiconductors, it is a deadly poison. The moment these materials come into contact with air, unreacted tin ions on their surface oxidize, creating defects that destroy the device. Now, a research team led by Professor Yong-Young Noh at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has solved this long-standing problem and published a next-generation semiconductor with enhanced performance and stability in Nature. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-volatile-coating-tin-perovskite-transistors.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:03 EDT news702646940 South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics forecast Tuesday a massive 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-samsung-profit-ai-boom.html Business Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:30:01 EDT news702616388 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 Semiconductors are central to modern technology. They are used in computer chips, solar cells, sensors, LEDs and communication devices. Before researchers make new semiconductor materials in the lab, they often test them first using quantum mechanical simulations. One of the main tools for this work is density functional theory, or DFT, a computer-modeling method that skips tracking every single electron and instead uses their overall cloud density to quickly calculate a material's atomic structure and energy. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-combines-modern-density-functional.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:19:45 EDT news702551961 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