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May 16, 2025

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New Chip Uses AI to Shrink Large Language Models' Energy Footprint by 50%

May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and ...

A Cool Fix for Hot Chips: Advanced Thermal Management Technology for Electronic Devices

Apr. 17, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a significant performance increase in cooling technology for high-power electronic devices. They designed novel capillary geometries that push the boundaries of thermal ...

Amplifier With Tenfold Bandwidth Opens Up for Super Lasers

Apr. 9, 2025 — The rapidly increasing data traffic is placing ever greater demands on the capacity of communication systems. A research team now introduces a new amplifier that enables the transmission of ten times more data per second than those of current ...

Microcomb Chips Help Pave the Way for Thousand Times More Accurate GPS Systems

Feb. 21, 2025 — Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to ...

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Chip-Based System for Terahertz Waves Could Enable More Efficient, Sensitive Electronics

Feb. 20, 2025 — Researchers developed a low-cost, scalable terahertz amplifier that could be used to make antenna arrays that can steer and focus high-frequency ...

Engineers Grow 'High-Rise' 3D Chips

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers can now fabricate a 3D chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon substrates between the layers, ...

Microchips Capable of Detecting and Diagnosing Diseases

Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed microchips using field-effect transistors that can detect multiple diseases from a single air sample with high sensitivity. The technology enables rapid testing and could ...

Uncovering the Pigments and Techniques Used to Paint the Berlin Wall

Dec. 11, 2024 — Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

Ultraprecise Method of Aligning 3D Semiconductor Chips Invented

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram. Their work can help to lower the ...

Researchers Develop Low-Cost Device That Detects Cancer in an Hour

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer more cheaply and quickly than prevailing methods. The team believes the device may be especially helpful in ...

Ultra-Small Spectrometer Yields the Power of a 1,000 Times Bigger Device

Oct. 23, 2024 — Researchers are designing new ways to make spectrometers that are ultra-small but still very powerful, to be used for anything from detecting disease to observing stars in distant ...

Researchers Succeed in Creating Two Interconnected Vascular Networks

Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking cell culture platform that enables the formation of two distinct but interconnected vascular networks. Their breakthrough holds tremendous promise for ...

Engineers Create a Chip-Based Tractor Beam for Biological Particles

Oct. 3, 2024 — A chip-based 'tractor beam' can trap and manipulate biological particles using a tightly focused beam of light emitted from a silicon-photonics chip. The device could help biologists and clinicians ...

A New Ventilator-on-a-Chip Model to Study Lung Damage

Sep. 19, 2024 — Scientists are now able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model, researchers ...

Scientists Harness Quantum Microprocessor Chips for Revolutionary Molecular Spectroscopy Simulation

Aug. 20, 2024 — Engineering researchers have successfully developed a quantum microprocessor chip for molecular spectroscopy simulation of actual large-structured and complex ...

The Next Generation of RNA Chips

July 31, 2024 — An international research team has succeeded in developing a new version of RNA building blocks with higher chemical reactivity and photosensitivity. This can significantly reduce the production time ...

Progress in Development of a New High-Tech Kidney Disease Urine Test

July 9, 2024 — Development of a new way to accurately measure human serum albumin (HSA) levels in people with chronic kidney disease has progressed in recent ...

3D-Printed Chip Sensor Detects Foodborne Pathogens for Safer Products

June 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method for detecting foodborne pathogens that is faster, cheaper, and more effective than existing methods. Their microfluidic chip uses light to detect multiple ...

Researchers Demonstrate the First Chip-Based 3D Printer

June 10, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated the first chip-based 3D printer, a tiny device that emits reconfigurable beams of visible light into a well of resin that rapidly cures into a solid shape. The advance ...

Miniaturizing a Laser on a Photonic Chip

June 10, 2024 — Scientists have successfully miniaturized a powerful erbium-based biber laser on a silicon-nitride photonic chip. Since typical erbium-based fiber lasers are large and difficult to scale down, the ...

With Programmable Pixels, Novel Sensor Improves Imaging of Neural Activity

June 7, 2024 — New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel's timing to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural ...

Scientists Develop an Affordable Sensor for Lead Contamination

May 14, 2024 — A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that ...

2D Materials Rotate Light Polarization

Apr. 22, 2024 — Physicists have shown that ultra-thin two-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide can rotate the polarization of visible light by several degrees at certain wavelengths under small magnetic ...

Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection

Mar. 28, 2024 — A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors. Their newly developed biomimetic olfactory ...

New Microwave Photonics Chip for High-Speed Signal Processing

Feb. 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a microwave photonic chip that is capable of performing ultrafast analog electronic signal processing and computation using ...

New Chip Opens Door to AI Computing at Light Speed

Feb. 16, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the ...

Let It Glow: Scientists Develop New Approach to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Water

Jan. 17, 2024 — Researchers have created a new way to detect 'forever chemical' pollution in water, via a luminescent ...

Bridging Light and Electrons

Jan. 11, 2024 — Researchers have merged nonlinear optics with electron microscopy, unlocking new capabilities in material studies and the control of electron ...

Made-to-Order Diagnostic Tests May Be on the Horizon

Dec. 11, 2023 — Researchers have made a breakthrough in diagnostic technology, inventing a 'lab on a chip' that can be 3D-printed in just 30 minutes. The chip has the potential to make on-the-spot testing ...

Photonic Chip That 'Fits Together Like Lego' Opens Door to Semiconductor Industry

Dec. 1, 2023 — A new semiconductor architecture integrates traditional electronics with photonic, or light, components could have application in advanced radar, satellites, wireless networks and 6G ...

Photonics Team Develops High-Performance Ultrafast Lasers That Fit on a Fingertip

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists demonstrate a novel approach for creating high-performance ultrafast lasers on nanophotonic chips. The new advance will enable pocket-sized devices that can perform detailed GPS-free ...

Energy-Saving AI Chip

Oct. 26, 2023 — A computer scientist has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. The researcher applies a new computational paradigm using special ...

New 3D-Printed Tumor Model Enables Faster, Less Expensive and Less Painful Cancer Treatment

Oct. 16, 2023 — A team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: Tumors with ...