Research

Three year EU project explores CMOS limits

BAE Systems in the US has been working with Vitesse Semiconductor and the University of Illinois to design what they claim is one of the fastest semiconductor devices ever produced. Made using an indium phosphide process, the frequency divider circuits have been clocked at 152GHz. The devices were designed by BAE Systems and manufactured in Vitesse’s indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar ...

Importance of electronics sector may be shrinking, say Government insiders

A dedicated silicon technology centre providing advanced services to UK and European industry has been created at Southampton University. The new venture, which is called Innos, has emerged from the EPSRC-funded Silicon Fabrication Facility, a centre which has offered research capability mainly to UK academics for the past 20 years. Innos will be headed by Steve Byars, a former COO ...

Researchers at Sandia Labs have developed a MEMS device called the ‘inchworm’ to investigate friction in microscale objects. While the simple relationship F=normal force x the coefficient of friction holds true at the macroscale, it does not necessarily do so for small devices, where there is a large surface to volume ratio and adhesive forces may add to conventional friction. ...

Devices for fibre optic telecoms industry will standardise, says MIT report

Modular robot can build copies of itself

Thirteen academics and three senior figures from industry are named on the panel to assess the quality of UK research

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University of Oxford medical vision lab patents a way of extracting extra information from heart ultrasound scans