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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.  |
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 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 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.  |
Chemistry World October 9, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Growing gallium nitride LEDs on glass Korean researchers have grown crystalline gallium nitride on the surface of amorphous glass. The idea could lead to new, scalable ways of making semiconductor devices that don't need to be grown on silicon or sapphire wafers.  |
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 August 2008 Neil Savage |
Cheaper LEDs Possible by Growing Gallium Nitride on Silicon Engineers take a step toward cheaper solid-state lighting.  |
Chemistry World January 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
White LEDs to Plummet in Price Home and office lighting using white LEDs is one step closer to becoming reality now that researchers in Cambridge have developed technology which could slash the cost of their production.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2011 Richard Stevenson |
Silicon Is Key to Quest for $5 LED Lightbulb Bridgelux process grows gallium-nitride on high-volume silicon wafers  |
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 March 2011 Apte et al. |
Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter  |
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 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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Tom Adams |
The shrinking-package approach to low-cost, robust sensor arrays One potential benefit of shrinking the sizes of microelectronics components is the potential to scatter a large number of sensors arranged as a distributed array over an area for surveillance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
Silicon Wafer Shipments Experience Growth for the Fifth Consecutive Year Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).  |
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 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.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials  |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2008 Jill Jusko |
Low-Cost LED Lighting Advances Breakthrough by Purdue University could help reduce energy consumption.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Neil Savage |
New Schemes for Powering Processors Building an on-chip high-voltage transmission grid is one way researchers think they could distribute power better  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Richard Stevenson |
Winner: NanoGaN's Crystal Method NanoGaN's substrates will grow better, cheaper lasers  |
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.  |
PC Magazine November 22, 2004 John R. Quain |
Changing Chip Architecture The more semiconductor components, you can pile on top of one another on a single block, the greater the cost savings. That's the idea behind the 3D chip technology from Matrix Semiconductor.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Richard Stevenson |
Long-Distance Car Radar Affordable radar will let every car see through fog, brake on its own, and track other vehicles hundreds of meters ahead  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert |
Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid  |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John McHale |
Raytheon technique for growing semiconductor compounds on silicon to provide affordable ICs to DOD Experts at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are demonstrating that affordable, high-performance circuits for military applications can be produced by growing semiconductor compounds directly on silicon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale |
RF and Microwave Technology Enable Networking on the Move Designers of RF and microwave technology say low power and small size remain the trend in product designs. Meanwhile, integrators adapt and combine RF and microwave technologies to enable networking on the move.  |
PC Magazine April 1, 2009 John C. Dvorak |
Chip Biz Buzzwords It's no surprise that everyone in the Valley is so comfortable with insider and exclusionary code words, many of which make no sense.  |
Inc. April 1, 2002 Kate O'Sullivan |
I'll Take Manhattan A Silicon Valley start-up combats semiconductor sprawl by figuring out a way to build its circuits up rather than out....  |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Dan Bloom |
Silicon Labs' New Chip Silicon Labs has introduced a product that will make it easier for any device manufacturer to add AM/FM radio listening functionality to small handheld devices. Investors, take note.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Harry Goldstein |
GaAsing Up Cellphones Gallium arsenide transistors could power tiny, blazingly fast multimedia handsets.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with.  |
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Tim Wogan |
New silicon allotrope could revolutionize solar cells A new, direct band gap allotrope of silicon has been synthesized by researchers in the US. It could potentially revolutionize solar cells and light-emitting devices.  |
Chemistry World May 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Cracks break the rules of nanofabrication When it comes to nanofabrication, cracks are usually best avoided. But now researchers in South Korea have discovered that cracks aren't always bad - if harnessed, they can be used to make controlled patterns.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee |
The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Cheap Chips for Next Wireless Frontier IBM engineers unveiled the first experimental 60-GHz transmitter and receiver chips. Now, researchers are presenting three key transceiver components built in a widely available and inexpensive silicon process technology.  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 Anthony King |
Diamond encrusted nano-saw to slash silicon waste Scientists at Fraunhofer in Germany and CSIRO in Australia have teamed up to make an ultra-thin saw made of carbon nanotubes sprinkled with diamonds. Their new nano-saw promises to slice thinner silicon wafers.  |
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams.  |
Scientific American August 2005 Steven Ashley |
Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances.  |
InternetNews September 18, 2006 David Needle |
Intel Sees The Laser Light Intel announced its latest research designed to create a super-fast hybrid silicon processor capable of moving data at terabits-per-second speed.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Richard Stevenson |
LED Lighting: Blue + Yellow = White Giving LEDs the blues was the key to replacing the incandescent bulb  |
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 John C. Dvorak |
Inside Track v25n16 There needs to be something besides high-end games that can suck up all the power of Intel's dual-core chips. This desperation will only get worse when Intel rolls out the four-core chip.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John Keller |
Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages.  |