With “Electronic Components 2020/2021” Würth Elektronik publishes an updated supplement to its general catalog. Besides a series of innovative new products, there is background and basic knowledge about EMC for high-frequency applications, gate driver circuits, single pair Ethernet, laser and infrared LEDs, as well as additional information. Practical application examples support the use of the […]
Semiconductors
MIM/MOM capacitor extraction boosts analog and RF designs
Metal-insulator-metal and metal-oxide-metal capacitors popular in analog/RF designs because of their desirable characteristics. By extracting parasitics from your models that are important in your design, you’ll get a robust circuit.
Study: GaN and SiC Power Semiconductor Market to Hit $3 Billion by 2025
The GaN and SiC power semiconductor market is poised to rise from USD 400 million in 2018 to over USD 3000 million by 2025, according to a 2019 Global Market Insights, Inc. report. The power semiconductor devices are witnessing high adoption for different power applications, fueling the growth of the market. As conventional silicon-based devices are approaching their material limits, silicon […]
Probing Semiconductor Crystals with a Sphere of Light
Tohoku University researchers have developed a technique using a hollow sphere to measure the electronic and optical properties of large semiconducting crystals. The approach, published in the journal Applied Physics Express, improves on current photoluminescence spectroscopy techniques and could lead to energy savings for mass producers, and thus consumers, of power devices. Semiconducting crystals are used […]
Organic Electronics: A New Semiconductor in the Carbon-Nitride Family
Some organic materials might be able to be utilised similarly to silicon semiconductors in optoelectronics. Whether in solar cells, light-emitting diodes, or in transistors – what is important is the band gap, i.e. the difference in energy level between electrons in the valence band (bound state) and the conduction band (mobile state). Charge carriers can […]
UV Light May Illuminate Improvements for Next Generation Electronic Devices
By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimally small semiconductors, a next-level generation of electrical devices becomes possible. This work to build better and faster electronics is well underway, but little was known about how to test the ingredients of these devices to ensure performance. Now, researchers from the Nagoya Institute of Technology […]
Semiconductor Sphere: Why is SoC Gaining Momentum in IoT Innovation?
Rapid advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) are accelerating its adoption across the industrial realm. While the number of active IoT devices as of 2018 was about 7 billion, it’s estimated to reach 22 billion by 2025. These will encompass all sorts of devices used across sectors like healthcare, retail, transportation, wearables, and much […]
Lattice sensAI Delivers 10X Performance Boost for Low Power, Smart IoT Devices at the Edge
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced major performance and design flow enhancements for its award-winning Lattice sensAI™ solutions stack. The Lattice sensAI stack provides a comprehensive hardware and software solution for implementing low power (1mW-1W), always-on artificial intelligence (AI) functionality in smart devices operating at the Edge. IHS forecasts 40 […]
Ultra-Clean Fabrication Platform Produces Nearly Ideal 2-D Transistors
Semiconductors, which are the basic building blocks of transistors, microprocessors, lasers, and LEDs, have driven advances in computing, memory, communications, and lighting technologies since the mid-20th century. Recently discovered two-dimensional materials, which feature many superlative properties, have the potential to advance these technologies, but creating 2-D devices with both good electrical contacts and stable performance […]
2D Insulators with Ferromagnetism Are Rare; Researchers Just Identified a New One
Collaborating scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Princeton University have discovered a new layered ferromagnetic semiconductor, a rare type of material that holds great promise for next-generation electronic technologies. As the name implies, semiconductors are the Goldilocks of electrically conductive materials– not a metal, and not an insulator, […]
