Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

Laser processing of silicon materials has emerged as a transformative technique in microelectronics and photonics, enabling precise internal modifications that bypass the limitations of traditional ...

In the world of electric (EV) and software-defined vehicles (SDV), a key challenge and opportunity besets original equipment manufacturers (OEM): that of effectively harnessing in-vehicle and silicon ...

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE have developed a silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell utilizing intense pulsed light-processed screen-printed metal contacts, and claim to have achieved a ...

The advent of big data era raising significant challenges in information processing, especially in the aspect of capacity and power consumption. Situations become even worse when we consider the fact ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — After spending time with venture capital companies reviewing business plans for design-for-manufacturability startups, Atul Sharan and Yao-Ting Wang decided they could do a better ...

San Francisco — Faced with few other viable choices, many leading-edge chip makers are reluctantly migrating to immersion lithography for the 45-nanometer node. While immersion will enable them to ...

Made of silicon, these in-sensor visual processing arrays can both capture and process visual data in the analog domain, as opposed to conventional systems that often physically separate these ...

High-end wireless and cellular networks rely on light for the distribution of signals. The selective processing of such signals requires long delays: too long to support on a chip using light alone. A ...