Electronics & Semiconductors

Enabling battery-powered silicon chips to work faster and longer

A team of researchers from NUS have invented a novel class of reconfiguration techniques that adaptively extends both the minimum power consumption and the maximum performance of digital circuits, well beyond common voltage ...

Energy & Green Tech

Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics

Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental ...

Engineering

Smart transformer for the energy turnaround

A new, smart medium-voltage transformer developed at ETH Zurich features cutting-edge semiconductor technology, making it extremely compact and energy efficient. Future applications are ranging from locomotives to fast charging ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Fujitsu triples the output power of gallium-nitride transistors

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that they have developed a crystal structure that both increases current and voltage in gallium-nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMT), effectively ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

New structure transistors for advanced technology node CMOS ICs

A review published in the journal National Science Review summarizes the research of a team led by Prof. Huaxiang Yin (Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences). They systemically reviewed the development ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Invention reduces cost of manufacturing quick-charging devices

In the course of the transition to e-mobility, range and charging times are becoming increasingly important for more and more people. That's why possibilities for faster charging are of ever-greater interest. Quick charging ...

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