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Phase-change heatsink for space

Steve Bush — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:50:42 +0000

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are investigating phase-change as a way to improve heat-sinking in space. Earth-bound heatsinks loose most of their heat by convection – a luxury ...

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IQE, Quinas complete UltraRAM industrialisation project for AI

Alun Williams — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:06:45 +0000

IQE and Quinas Technology say they have successfully completed their £1.1m UltraRAM industrialisation project. This involved developing a scalable gallium antimonide (GaSb) epitaxy for memory devices. In July 2024 they ...

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3d stacked integration for DRAM and processors

Steve Bush — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:38:48 +0000

Institute of Science Tokyo revealed advances to its BBCube 3D integration process at ECTC, the IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference. “These new technologies can help in addressing the demands ...

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Coherent microwave-optical photon converter for quantum networks

Steve Bush — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:34:54 +0000

University of British Columbia researchers are aiming at long-distance entangled quantum networks with a coherent microwave-to-optical photon converter, that can theoretically be fabricated on a silicon wafer. Such a network ...

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Imec transistor for 6G FR3 band

David Manners — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:18:01 +0000

Imec has developed a GaN MOSHEMT on silicon that achieves both record efficiency and output power for an enhancement-mode (E-mode) device operating at low supply voltage. In parallel, imec also ...

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Alice & Bob adopt CUDA and run 75x faster

David Manners — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:18:05 +0000

Alice & Bob, the French quantum computing developers who are integrating their quantum simulation libraries Dynamiqs with Nvidia’s CUDA-Q platform, have found that the combination accelerates the simulation of complex ...

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Internal cameras refine touch sense in artificial hand

Steve Bush — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:33:44 +0000

F-Tac is a robot hand that can sense touch with 100μm resolution across 70% of its grasping surface, and can grasp using that touch feedback. “The spatial resolution combined with ...

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Imec researchers demo single-chip optical and microwave integration

David Manners — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:16:38 +0000

The Photonics Research Group and IDlab, two imec research groups at Ghent University, and imec, have demo-ed a fully-integrated single-chip microwave photonics system, combining optical and microwave signal processing on ...

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Imec fabs Ru lines at 16nm pitch with low resistance

David Manners — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:17:48 +0000

Imec has fabbed Ruthenium (Ru) lines at 16nm pitch with average resistance as low as 656Ω/µm. The 16nm pitch metal lines were fabricated using a semi-damascene integration flow optimized for ...

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Another step towards designer OLED materials

Steve Bush — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:21:07 +0000

Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a more accurate model with which to design ‘thermally activated delayed fluorescence’ (TADF) OLED materials. Emission from OLEDs occurs when excited electrons drop to ...

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