Groundbreaking New Tiny Power Converters Run on Vibrational Energy
The ISSCC 2024 paper presents a ‘ground-breaking’ DC-DC converter that unifies power switches on a single chip. Scientists from the University of California San Diego…
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Up to 1,000,000 Times Faster: A Switch Made From a Single Molecule
A unique carbon molecule has been found to possess the ability to operate as multiple high-speed switches at once. An international team of researchers, including…
Suppressing Symptoms – A Neuro-Chip To Manage Brain Disorders
Researchers at EPFL have combined the fields of low-power chip design, machine learning algorithms, and soft implantable electrodes to create a neural interface capable of…
Wearable Electronics Breakthrough: A Revolutionary Electrochemical Transistor
Efficient, low-cost transistors have a wide range of applications, including biomedical sensing. A multidisciplinary Northwestern University research team has created a groundbreaking transistor that is…
The Security System of the Future – Electronic Devices Could Use “Logic Locks” To Fend Off Malicious Attacks
Electronic devices of the future may have improved security measures integrated into their circuitry to help defend against malicious attacks. Researchers from King Abdullah University…
2D Molybdenum Disulfide Shows Potential as Platform for Electronic Devices
A newly published study from researchers at MIT details the use of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) as a 2D platform for electronic devices, possibly opening the…
DARPA Creates First Solid State Receiver to Demonstrate Gain at 0.85 THz
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have created the world’s first solid-state receiver to demonstrate gain at 0.85 terahertz (THz). In the latest…
New Chip Combines Energy from Solar, Thermal and Vibration Sources
Using a chip to simultaneously harness power from natural light, heat, and vibrations in the environment, MIT researchers are working to develop battery-free monitoring systems…
First Integrated Chemical Circuits Developed Using Ion Transistors
At the Organic Electronic research group at Linköping University in Sweden, researchers have been working on ways of creating chemical circuits. They were previously able…
Penn Researchers Build a Circuit with Light
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are pushing circuitry forward by replacing electricity with light. By moving to shorter wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, they…
Microcapsules Make Self-Healing Electronics Possible
We live in a disposable world, where it seems like everything is designed to break and be replaced, but there are times when a break…