2016-09-19 - Rick Merritt

FinFETs, FD-SOI expand at Globalfoundries

The news is expected to boost the foundry's competitive position against larger rivals such as TSMC.

2016-09-19 - Rick Merritt

First glance at Globalfoundries’ 7nm

The process is geared for the same kinds of premium cloud and smartphone processors as today’s 14/16nm nodes.

2016-09-15 - Georgia Institute of Technology

Fabric weaves in power from wind and sun

A textile machine is used to weave together solar cells constructed from lightweight polymer fibres with fibre-based triboelectric nanogenerators.

2016-09-09 - Vivek Nanda

Indian startup rises to contactless payment challenge

Most bank apps do not allow retail payments, a situation Indian startup has set out to remedy using sound.

2016-09-09 - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Carbon nanotube transistors finally surpass silicon

The new transistors are promising for wireless communications technologies that require a lot of current flowing across a relatively small…

2016-09-05 - Nano Dimension Technologies

DragonFly 2020 system flies to first customer

The supply was made to an Israeli defence company for evaluation purposes, according to Nano Dimension Technologies.

2016-08-31 - Walt Mills

Tackling power consumption in miniature devices

Experiments show metallic wires can be created using bilayer graphene sheets, but researchers said they're still a long way from…

2016-08-31 - Walt Mills

Controlling electron ‘colour’ step forward in valleytronics

The experimental device of bilayer graphene proves the ability to control the momentum of electrons, offering a path to electronics…

2016-08-24 - Jennifer Langston

How interscatter tech eliminates backscattering by-products

The backscattering process creates an unwanted mirror image copy of the signal, which consumes more bandwidth as well as interferes…

2016-08-24 - Jennifer Langston

Interscatter technique allows implants to talk Wi-Fi

Interscatter communication backscatters existing signals like Bluetooth in the air, transforming wireless transmissions from one technology to another.