How China gets PCB production costs down
Manufacturing materials require several steps spanning different technologies. Asian factories, specifically those in China, overcome this hurdle with low-cost labour…
Low-loss laminates up signal integrity game
With channel speeds increasing beyond 50Gbps, RO1200 circuit materials are engineered to meet electrical and thermal/mechanical requirements of high speed…
‘Wetting transparency’ grows defect-free electronics
Using monolayer graphene as a non-stick interfacing sheet between the substrate wafer and the epitaxially grown material paves way for…
How to build electronics off re-usable wafers
Researchers have developed a new method for semiconductor epitaxial growth by leveraging graphene's so-called "wetting transparency."
Waste glass holds key to more efficient batteries
Using a low-cost chemical process, researchers have turned waste glass bottles into nano-silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries.
Removing imperfections speeds fibre data
A team led by Penn State Prof. Venkatraman Gopalan has developed a process to improve data transfer by eliminating imperfections…
Insulator enables 7nm and beyond
IBM has revealed new insulator material that will help it reach the 7nm node and smaller process geometries.
Apple revamps rules to address child labour practices
Apple, which has stopped supply from artisanal mines, now treats cobalt in the same way as conflict minerals such as…
Spiral semiconductors pave way for 3D projections
The new semiconductor helices created by the research team offer a level of control over light to vary the polarisation,…
Perovskite to catch up with GaAs ‘soon’
It has already been proved that perovskite solar cells can surpass currently available silicon-based solar batteries in terms of their…