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December 2, 2023

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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 circuits known as ferroelectric field effect ...

From Square to Cube: Hardware Processing for AI Goes 3D, Boosting Processing Power

Oct. 19, 2023 — A breakthrough development in photonic-electronic hardware could significantly boost processing power for AI and machine learning applications. The approach uses multiple radio frequencies to encode ...

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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 ...

New Easy-to-Use Optical Chip Can Self-Configure to Perform Various Functions

Oct. 11, 2023 — Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix ...

Engineers Grow Full Wafers of High-Performing 2D Semiconductor That Integrates With State-of-the-Art Chips

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have grown a high-performing 2D semiconductor to a full-size, industrial-scale wafer. In addition, the semiconductor material, indium ...

Scientists Develop Method to Detect Deadly Infectious Diseases

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have developed a way of detecting the early onset of deadly infectious diseases using a test so ultrasensitive that it could someday revolutionize medical approaches to epidemics. The ...

DNA Chips as Storage Media of the Future: What Challenges Need to Be Overcome

Aug. 24, 2023 — In the form of DNA, nature shows how data can be stored in a space-saving and long-term manner. Bioinformatics specialists are developing DNA chips ...

Materials Research: Biocatalytic Foams of Tremendous Stability and Activity

Aug. 10, 2023 — Industrial biocatalysis with enzymes is deemed to be a 'game changer' in the development of a sustainable chemical industry. Enzymes can be used to synthesize an impressive range of complex ...

Transferring Data With Many Colors of Light Simultaneously

June 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a fast and extremely efficient method for transferring huge amounts of data. The technique uses dozens of frequencies of light to transfer several streams of information ...

New Sensor Chip Advances Rapid, Cost-Effective Disease Diagnostics

June 26, 2023 — Scientists have developed a sensor chip that can detect many disease pathogens with 10 times the sensitivity of currently available ...

Deep Neural Network Provides Robust Detection of Disease Biomarkers in Real Time

May 2, 2023 — A lab has developed a deep neural network that improves the accuracy of their unique devices for detecting pathogen ...

Nifty Nanoparticles Help 'Peel Back the Curtain' Into the World of Super Small Things

Apr. 26, 2023 — Physicists are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to 'peel back the curtain' into the world of extremely small ...

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How Electricity Can Heal Wounds Three Times as Fast

Apr. 18, 2023 — Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly -- in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers have developed a method ...

Detecting Manipulations in Microchips

Mar. 20, 2023 — Attackers have the ability not only to manipulate software, but also to tamper with the hardware. A team is now devising methods to detect such ...

A New Chip for Decoding Data Transmissions Demonstrates Record-Breaking Energy Efficiency

Feb. 23, 2023 — A new chip called ORBGRAND can decode any code applied to data transmitted over the internet with maximum accuracy and between 10 and 100 times more energy efficiency than other ...

Improving the Performance of Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

Feb. 21, 2023 — On-chip distributed radiation sensors and current-sharing techniques can be used to reduce the impact of radiation on the radio and power consumption of small satellites, respectively. New findings ...

A Neuro-Chip to Manage Brain Disorders

Jan. 30, 2023 — Researchers have combined low-power chip design, machine learning algorithms, and soft implantable electrodes to produce a neural interface that can identify and suppress symptoms of various ...

Transistors Repurposed as Microchip 'Clock' Address Supply Chain Weakness

Jan. 25, 2023 — A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...

A Precision Arm for Miniature Robots

Jan. 13, 2023 — Until now, microscopic robotic systems have had to make do without arms. Now researchers have developed an ultrasonically actuated glass needle that can be attached to a robotic arm. This lets them ...

Researchers Develop All-Optical Approach to Pumping Chip-Based Nanolasers

Dec. 15, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. As described in Optica, the approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that ...

Heart Attack on a Chip

Dec. 7, 2022 — Researchers have developed a 'heart attack on a chip,' a device that could one day serve as a test-bed to develop new heart drugs and even personalized ...

Teaching Photonic Chips to 'Learn'

Nov. 22, 2022 — A multi-institution research team has developed an optical chip that can train machine learning ...

Silicone Sponge Captures Unknown Bacteria

Nov. 22, 2022 — From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in ...

An on-Chip Time-Lens Generates Ultrafast Pulses

Nov. 16, 2022 — Researchers have developed a high-performance, on-chip femtosecond pulse source using a time ...

Faster and More Efficient Computer Chips Thanks to Germanium

Nov. 8, 2022 — Our current chip technology is largely based on silicon -- even though different materials such as silicon-germanium would have decisive advantages. The problem is that it is very hard to create ...

Tapping Hidden Visual Information: An All-in-One Detector for Thousands of Colors

Oct. 20, 2022 — Spectrometers are widely used throughout industry and research to detect and analyze light. Spectrometers measure the spectrum of light -- its strength at different wavelengths, like the colors in a ...

Full Control of a Six-Qubit Quantum Processor in Silicon

Sep. 29, 2022 — Researchers have engineered a record number of six, silicon-based, spin qubits in a fully interoperable array. Importantly, the qubits can be operated with a low error-rate that is achieved with a ...

Scalable and Fully Coupled Quantum-Inspired Processor Solves Optimization Problems

Sep. 28, 2022 — Annealing processors are more energy efficient and quicker at solving mathematical optimization problems than PCs. Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have now developed a new approach to ...

Silicon Nanopillars for Quantum Communication

Sep. 20, 2022 — Across the world, specialists are working on implementing quantum information technologies. One important path involves light: Looking ahead, single light packages, also known as light quanta or ...

Optical Communications: New on-Chip Frequency Comb Is 100x More Efficient

Sep. 7, 2022 — A team has developed an electro-optic frequency comb that is 100-times more efficient and has more than twice the bandwidth of previous state-of-the-art ...

Engineers Fabricate a Chip-Free, Wireless Electronic 'Skin'

Aug. 18, 2022 — Engineers fabricated a chip-free, wireless electronic 'skin.' The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or ...

Programming pH

July 27, 2022 — Researchers have developed a technique to control pH at the local level, creating a dense array of microsites where the amount of protons is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average in the rest of ...

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