From Sand to Circuits – How Intel makes integrated circuits [PDF]
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sand-circuits-intel-makes-integrated-circuits-pdf/
Here is a nice PDF document from Intel explaining how integrated circuits are made. From Sand to Circuits – How Intel makes integrated circuits [PDF] – [Link]
122 GHz On-chip Radar
https://www.electronics-lab.com/122-ghz-chip-radar/
Silicon technology has made tremendous progress towards ever higher device cut-off frequencies. Nowadays all RF components for mm-Wave sensing applications up to 120 GHz can be realized. Silicon Radar is a german company that designs and delivers Millimetre Wave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) on a technologically advanced level, manufactured in affordable Silicon-Germanium-Technology (SiGe). It has just […]
The Tiniest 1nm Gate Transistor
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tiniest-1-nm-gate-transistor/
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at Berkeley Lab have debuted the smallest transistor ever reported. A gate structure of just 1 nm long can bring Moore’s law back again after the demonstration of the recent Silicon (Si) transistor with 5 nm gate. It was predicted that transistors will fail below 5 […]
Lasers built on silicon are a step towards fully integrated photonics
https://www.electronics-lab.com/lasers-built-on-silicon-are-a-step-towards-fully-integrated-photonics/
A group of researchers from the Cardiff University has demonstrated the first practical laser that has been grown directly on a silicon substrate. by Graham Prophet: The lasing structure was formed in indium arsenide/gallium arsenide layers grown directly on a silicon substrate; the research group notes that previous work has involved wafer bonding techniques to […]
SiC/GaN Poised for Power
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sicgan-poised-for-power/
by R. Colin Johnson @ eetimes.com: PORTLAND, Ore.—Today Yole Development predicted that power transistors would radically shift from silicon wafers to silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) substrates—to achieve higher power in smaller spaces, according to its GaN and SiC Devices for Power Electronics Applications report. One of the big drivers behind the shift is the […]