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Imec and Synopsys Collaborate on Technology Options

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

World-leading nano-electronics research center imec and Synopsys announced an interconnect resistivity model to support the screening and selection of alternative interconnect metals and liner-barrier materials at the 7nm node and beyond.…

Power

Vishay MOSFETs increase reliability and reduce package

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

Vishay announced that it has extended its offering of 600 V and 650 V E Series power MOSFETs with three new n-channel devices in the compact PowerPAK SO-8L package. Providing space-saving alternatives to MOSFETs in the TO-252 (DPAK)…

Medical

Project Surgify to reduce bone damage during surgery

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

Worldwide every year an estimated 770,000 skull opening procedures are performed. In approximately 30% of these surgeries, some degree of damage is caused to the tissues under the skull. 'Drilling is one of the riskiest parts of bone and…

Computer/Machine Learning

Brain training tech to resist food temptation

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

A computer game and smartphone app to help people control unhealthy eating habits and ultimately lose weight have been developed by Drexel University researchers. The game is designed to improve a person's "inhibitory control," the part of…

Communications

UFS cards to bring significant performance boost for 3D gaming

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

The industry’s first removable memory cards based on the JEDEC UFS 1.0 Card Extension Standard, for use in high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones has been unveiled by Samsung…

Genetics

First ever 3D computer model of an entire living animal

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

Eyleen O'Rourke, an assistant professor of biology and cell biology at the University of Virginia stated that "human diseases are network diseases." By that she means that our genes, cells, tissues and organs all interact and affect each…

Software/Hardware

Synapses mimicked in multistate memory

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

Thanks to a much larger variation in memory states, our brain can calculate faster consuming less energy, it does not work like a typical computer memory storing just ones and zeroes. Scientists of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of…

Energy

Clean energy solution for reduced use of platinum

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

A way to use less platinum in chemical reactions commonly used in the clean energy, green chemicals, and automotive industries, has been developed by researchers according to a paper in Science. Led by the University of New Mexico in…

Consumer

Atomic game of hopscotch to maximize efficiency of electronics

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

A team from Michigan Technological University has figured out the most likely reason why past research has shown heterogeneous silicon-germanium nanowires to be better transistors than their pure silicon counterparts. The study, published…

Featured

Breakthrough: A lightweight, unpowered, wearable exoskeleton

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

When he first envisioned the electroadhesive clutch, Steve Collins made a prototype with a sandwich bag and a couple of pieces of aluminum foil from his kitchen. Since creating that makeshift prototype, he and his research team have…