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New 300-Mm Wafer Fab Is Key to Bosch’s Chip Future
A new semiconductor plant is the single largest investment made by Robert Bosch AG in the 122-year-old company’s history. The facility, in Dresden, Germany, is welcome news to...
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Using Open-Cavity Plastic Packages in Avionics Applications
See which methods can help semiconductors meet very tight time-to-market windows.
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How 3D Printing Could Add Efficiency to EV Power Electronics
“Think production!” Perhaps that advice should be posted on the wall of every design office, R&D lab and advanced technology center in the auto industry. Although obeying...
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DENSO and Toyota Form a Joint Venture for Next-Generation Vehicle Semiconductors
DENSO Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation are teaming up on the research and development (R&D) of in-vehicle semiconductors. The two companies aim to...
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Audi Becomes First Automotive OEM to Join SEMI
German luxury automobile maker, Audi AG has joined SEMI (formerly Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) as a full member – becoming the first automotive original equipment...
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Silicon Drives Autonomy Movement
Silicon has joined iron and steel as a basic infrastructure material for autos—and the drive towards autonomy won’t slow that transition. Numerous tradeoffs will challenge automotive engineers as...
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New Technologies Tackle UAV Challenges
Unmanned vehicles for air, land, and water represent an increasingly-important capability for virtually all military services worldwide. Because each new generation of device technology promises...
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The Next Material Disruption
In a recent joint paper by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, researchers outlined the disruptive impact potential of graphene...
Articles Aerospace
GaN Breaks Barriers
The increasing demand for higher data rates in telecommunications and higher resolution in industrial systems is pushing the frequency of operation higher for the electronics that support them. Many of these systems operate...
Briefs Aerospace
Development of High Quality 4H-SiC Thick Epitaxy for Reliable High Power Electronics Using Halogenated Precursors
Development of robust semiconductor devices with high energy efficiency and reliability is a key objective towards 'Energy...
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Counterfeit Electronics in the DOD Supply Chain
Counterfeit semiconductor devices entering the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain continue to pose risks to many of our country’s most sophisticated aerospace and defense systems. However,...
Articles Aerospace
Designing Thermal Management Systems for Smaller, Lighter Avionics
The avionics systems of military aircraft support maneuverability and situation awareness for the pilot, process essential images, operate sensors, record data, and provide for...
Articles Aerospace
Minimizing Thermal Resistance with Direct Attach Heat Spreaders
As commercial and military electronics applications continue to “push the envelope” with higher powers and smaller packaging requirements, it is becoming more critical to...
Articles Aerospace
Surviving The Embedded Design Thermo-Mechanical Envelope
The Embedded usage model is characterized as one that is operated at the extremes of available performance. Knowing that the targets of the thermal design power usage mode are only...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Procedure to Determine and Correct for Transmission Line Resistances for Direct-Current, On-Wafer Measurements
Resistances of tenths of ohms to several ohms in transmission lines have been measured in laboratory systems from the power supply to...
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Analysis of On-Chip Heat Distribution in the Design of RF Power Detectors and Transistor Arrays
The simulation of electromagnetic (EM) and thermal properties of semiconductor and substrate materials has been demonstrated to be particularly...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Silicon Carbide Junction Field-Effect Transistor Devices for Scalable Solid-State Circuit Breakers
Power electronic converters functioning as components in high-power systems, such as those of hybrid military ground vehicles, require fast fault...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Detector Module for Testing Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Devices
Long-term stress testing of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices is required to determine suitability for power electronics applications. During testing, preventable...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Conjugated Polymers Having High Charge-Carrier Mobilities
A three-year research project encompassed multiple studies of (1) polymer semiconductors that exhibit relatively high electric-charge- carrier mobilities and (2) applications of these...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converters
Early steps have been taken toward the development of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that would incorporate photonic quantizers based on the technology of InP semiconductors. These photonic ADCs are...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Spintronic Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Progress has been made in calculation of spintronic effects in semiconductor nanostructures. The calculations contribute to the body of theoretical knowledge complementing recent experimental advances in generating, transporting, and detecting coherent spin-polarized populations of electron and...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Patterned Gallium Arsenide Devices for Infrared Countermeasures
The US Air Force has a need for improved tunable laser sources—both in the midinfrared region, for developing infrared countermeasure (IRCM) applications, and in the longinfrared...
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