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Semiconductors
Tackling Engineer Shortages Head On
There is a desperate shortage of engineers. Purdue’s Engineering Professor Zhihong Chen is proactively attempting…
China Tech Ban May Include Quantum Computing and AI—Will China Care?
Okay, so it's still early in the discussion phase. Still, it looks like the US is trying to expand the restrictions…
Arkansas to Host its First Energy Frontier Research Center
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a team at the University of Arkansas a $10.3 million grant to build the first…
The Potential Downside of Administration’s U.S. vs. China Semiconductor…
President Biden was clear—U.S. companies accepting funding under the CHIPS Act will be barred from building…
What Denotes the Best Possible Semiconductor?
Silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are far from ideal. Although silicon lets electrons whizz through its…
Major Advance in Semiconductor Materials
For the first time, researchers showed that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both…
Thin Mica Indicates Semiconducting Behavior
When researchers pulled sheets of single carbon atoms away from graphite to make graphene--the exfoliation…