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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Gurnett & Adams |
A Military and Aerospace Future for Board-Embedded Chips? There are as yet no distinctly military or aerospace applications for embedded chips, but the advantages that these structures provide are so compelling that their use in military applications seems inevitable within a few years.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Rao R. Tummala |
Moore's Law Meets Its Match By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement -- which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density -- will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 Adams & Gurnett |
The Coming CMOS Imaging Revolution CMOS image sensors (common in video and digital cameras) are undergoing a qualitative change that will provide a stunning range of new products for consumers, as well as for military and aerospace users.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Apte et al. |
Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Keith Gurnett & Tom Adams |
Up next: through-silicon vias The excitement over TSVs has been caused by the enhancement in process speed that can be gained by shortening distances.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Gurnett & Adams |
Farewell to Surface Mount? The idea of placing components inside the printed circuit board (PCB), rather then on the surface, has come and gone several times. Today, however, the concept is re-appearing with more promise and credibility than it has before.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Gurnett & Adams |
Copper-post technology shows promise for cooling in military applications The change from solder bumps to copper posts has far-reaching implications for advanced electronics in military and aerospace applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 Chris Sanders |
3D IC Integration is Poised to Drive the Next Generation of Military Imaging Sensors As military and aerospace design engineers develop imaging systems for the wired battlefield of tomorrow, they face the challenge of providing high-resolution imaging arrays that are light, small, and cheap.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Gurnett & Adams |
Taming the Gallium Arsenide Dicing Process A 2-inch gallium nitride wafer puts a thin film of GaN on a diamond base. One application: high-power, high-frequency power amplifiers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Gurnett & Adams |
Blazing speed is the goal of embedded passives The real purpose of 3-D integration is higher speed and better performance, not merely shrinkage of the physical dimensions.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Gurnett & Adams |
Merging the Functionalities of Silicon, and III-Vs: Two Promising Approaches One of the least flexible rules in electronic design is the need to keep silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices separate. Two new developments are now threatening to make this rule partly or entirely obsolete.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland |
3-D Chips Grow Up In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law - and move beyond it.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur |
Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich |
Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Chang & Subramian |
Electronic Noses Sniff Success E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors.  |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dylan Tweney |
What's Inside Your Laptop? We reveal the components inside a typical notebook PC and explain where they come from.  |
Technology Research News April 20, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Telescopes Make Bug-Eye Optics Researchers have developed a prototype artificial compound eye made from three stacked sets of microlenses that form an array of tiny telescopes that could be used for camera phones, infrared vision systems and optical sensors.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Mouli & Carriker |
Future Fab If a billion transistors on a postage-stamp-size chip impress you, consider the fabrication facilities that put them there. How software is helping Intel go nano -- and beyond.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Sally Adee |
Solid-State Circuits, in 3-D! At this year's IEEE ISSCC, some 3-D integration technologies are ready to wear, while others will remain haute couture  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Michael Dumiak |
Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to improve airport safety.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo |
Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus |
When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air  |
Industrial Physicist Wippich & Dessau |
Tunable Lasers and Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors Today, the tunable laser is being tested in many industrial applications, including optical remote sensing, where laser-based systems can provide improved performance over electronic means of measuring strain, temperature, and pressure.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.  |
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 Sebastian Rupley |
The Tiniest Projector Miniaturized gizmos could arrive in handhelds, cars, and robots.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Schneider & Ross |
Antennas for the New Airwaves This month's planned shutdown of analog broadcast TV in the United States will bring antenna technology back into the spotlight.  |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin Researchers have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.  |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Carbon nanotube rectenna directly converts light into electricity Scientists in the US have for the first time made a solar energy collector using carbon nanotubes that can directly convert optical light in to a direct current.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale |
DARPA Asks Raytheon to Develop Football-Field-Size Radar for Future Surveillance Airship The goal of the Integrated Sensor is Structure program is to develop a stratospheric airship-based autonomous unmanned sensor with years of persistence in surveillance and tracking of aircraft and ground forces.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames |
Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Tekla S. Perry |
Medal of Honor: Thomas Kailath A professor emeritus at Stanford University, Kailath's algorithms re-engineered digital communications and semiconductor processing  |
Chemistry World March 7, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Diatoms Transformed Into Silicon Sensors Materials scientists have found a simple method of converting frustules - the intricate silica-based skeletons of common single celled photosynthetic organisms called diatoms - into pure silicon structures with many applications.  |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
All-silicon chip laser demoed Researchers from Intel have moved a step forward in the push to meld lasers and silicon chips, which could eventually be used in portable biological and chemical sensors, to amplify communications signals, and to convert light to different wavelengths.  |
Wired February 23, 2009 Mathew Honan |
Hide the Antenna Inside the Cell Phone The constraint: Tuck a 7-inch antenna inside the case without adding bulk.  |
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean |
Building Miniature `Noses' to Sniff Explosives To sense malicious chemicals and substances, such as explosives, scientists are searching for the holy grail in chemical sensing -- a mechanical device that is as good as or better than a dog's nose and can run nonstop to provide continuous monitoring of an environment.  |
Home Toys December 2002 David Steele |
Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience.  |
PC World December 3, 2001 Martyn Williams |
AMD Announces Another Chip Advance Company's new transistor is five times smaller than current models, leading to faster and more complex chips...  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Neil Savage |
Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery.  |
Food Engineering June 4, 2007 |
Not Your Mama's Sensor More rugged, adaptable and reliable sensors are being deployed in industrial automation. And the fact they're taken for granted attests to how well they perform.  |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Inkjet Printers Prepare for War Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless sensor that can be printed on paper or similar material using standard inkjet technology.  |
Salon.com November 13, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Silicon hogs A new study tars microchip manufacturing as wasteful and inefficient. Whatever happened to high tech's squeaky-clean image?  |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Sensors guard privacy The idea behind a new privacy scheme is to make sensor networks automatically reduce the accuracy of the location data they report whenever anyone is in danger of standing out. The goal is to allow people to be monitored without any one person being tracked.  |
Home Toys June 2004 Bert Centala |
Sensors Make "Sense" for Home Automation Environmental sensor products can be a welcome addition to almost any Home Automation system whether they are used to actively control HVAC devices or to simply monitor key environmental parameters.  |
Chemistry World August 2006 David Walt |
Comment: Common Sense for Sensors Designing sensors for manufacturability must be performed at the outset rather than as an afterthought. Only when we develop such reproducible sensors will they become pervasive tools for improving our quality of life.  |
Home Theater March 2003 Peter H. Putman |
Got HDTV? Home Theater's guide to using indoor and outdoor antennas to pick up digital TV broadcasts  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Sally Adee |
A Fly-Eye Inspired Speed Sensor First sensor to directly measure speed uses algorithms from fruit-fly steering circuits  |