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New chip measures multiple cellular responses to speed drug discovery

By sdavis October 30, 2018Blog

Finding ways to improve the drug development process – which is currently costly, time-consuming and has an astronomically high failure rate – could have far-reaching benefits for health care and…

Synopsys advances Test Fusion technology with test points to reduce manufacturing costs and boost quality

By sdavis October 30, 2018Blog

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of Test Fusion technology with new test point functionality, providing design teams with powerful design-for-test (DFT) circuit modifications to reduce silicon test…

Global semiconductor sales in September up 13.8% year-to-year

By sdavis October 29, 2018Blog

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $122.7 billion during the third quarter of 2018, an…

The ASOPS system as a multiphysics measurement device for research and industry

By sdavis October 28, 2018Blog

By Wilfried Vogel, NETA Downsizing and thinning all the electronic parts has always been a trend in our modern era. However, the nanoscience and nanotechnologies were still science fiction in…

Optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, discretes climb again

By sdavis October 28, 2018Blog

With tight supplies of widely used power transistors and diodes driving up prices and new optical-imaging applications moving into more systems, the diverse marketplace for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and…

Speeding MEMS innovation and production

By sdavis October 27, 2018Blog

By Nishita Rao DARPA’s Vision of Cross-Collaboration Ron Polcawich, program manager, DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, will give the closing keynote at MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress on October 29-30, 2018…

Highly efficient wet-processed solar cells with molecules in the same orientation

By sdavis October 27, 2018Blog

Solar cells are a cost-effective, alternate source of energy. A subtype of these, organic solar cells make use of organic polymers inside the cell. Using these polymers makes the cells…

Nanotubes may give the world better batteries

By sdavis October 27, 2018Blog

Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for common lithium-ion batteries. Rice University graduate student Gladys López-Silva…

SEMI shares industry feedback on RoHS review roadmap with European Commission

By sdavis October 26, 2018Blog

By Emir Demircan SEMI recently shared industry feedback with the European Commission on the roadmap for reviewing RoHS (the Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances…

Spinning the light: The world’s smallest optical gyroscope

By sdavis October 26, 2018Blog

Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and handheld electronic devices know their orientation in three-dimensional space. They are commonplace in just about every bit of technology we…