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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

R2-D2 and C-3PO, the robots in the popular movie Star Wars, gave us a glimpse of the artificial intelligence (AI) robots of the future. While some prefer the term “deep learning” over AI, both names pretty much mean the same thing. In recent years, AI robots have become a reality. Sophia, a female robot built […]