2016-10-14 - Rice University

Electron beam turns nanorods into multistate switches

At about 200 nanometres long, 500 of the metal rods placed end-to-end would span the width of a human hair,…

2016-10-11 - Julien Happich

CMOS-compatible memristors closely mimic synapses

Compared to three-terminal CMOS synaptic circuits, the two-terminal device doesn't require complex circuitry to simulate synaptic behaviour.

2016-09-19 - Julien Happich

Start-up secures $1M to develop diamond-based electronics

Evince Technology is developing a new family of devices including a diode, an embedded field emission triode and a bidirectional…

2016-09-14 - Julien Happich

SnIP: One-dimensional equivalent of carbon nanotubes?

Through appropriate doping, the researchers expect the novel material to lend itself to many applications in the electronic industry.

- Renee Meiller

Squeezing more onto increasingly limited wafer space

The new method is much faster, and reduces the number of steps in the process to just two: lithography and…

2016-09-09 - KAIST

Roll-process technology packages flexible silicon ICs

The final silicon-based flexible NAND memory demonstrates stable memory operations and interconnections even under severe bending conditions.

2016-08-29 - Jennifer Chu

Heat-responsive 3D-printed items ‘remember’ their shapes

The structures spring back to their original forms within seconds of being heated to a certain temperature “sweet spot.”

2016-08-24 - Julien Happich

Virtual keyboard targets hospital AR

NEC has demonstrated a video processing-based solution that creates interactive keyboards out of thin air... Well, smart glass computing resources…

- Vivek Nanda

NUS alumnus tops Climate CoLab contest with caterpillar train concept

Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya, a PhD from NUS, and teammate Emil Jacob, have proposed a renewabl-energy-run mass transit idea that's cheaper…

2016-08-19 - Rick Merritt

Wintel gets back on mixed-reality platform

Remember the days of counting processor frequencies and blue screens? Looks like the Wintel club is back with the two…