The latest electronics research news from within the industry and universities from around the world.
Yesterday OpenAI said London would be its largest research hub outside the US. “We are excited to establish London as a major research hub for OpenAI, building on the leading work our London team is already doing to support our latest breakthroughs,” said Mark Chen (pictured), OpenAI’s chief research officer, “the UK brings together world class talent and leading scientific ...
Imec has demonstrated that precise control of gas compositions during post-exposure EUV lithography steps can help in minimizing the required exposure dose, thereby unlocking higher wafer throughput. In particular, improved dose response of metal-oxide photoresists (MORs) has been achieved when the EUV post-exposure bake step is performed under elevated oxygen concentrations. Metal-oxide resists (MORs) have emerged as leading candidates for ...
An event to note: the 2026 Imperial Robotics Summer School. The week-long programme will run from 20-24 July this year and the call for applications is now open. Specifically, the Imperial College Robotics Forum is inviting people from around the world to take part. These can be current and recent STEM postgraduates, early career researchers, or industry professionals. Kinematics The ...
At the ISSCC yesterday, CEA-List and CEA-Leti presented an electro-optical router with dynamic, frame-level optical routing integrated with CMOS control logic – an enabler for chiplet-based optical networking. Their paper, “A 3.19pJ/bit Electro-Optical Router with 18ns Setup Frame-Level Routing and 1-6 Wavelength Flexible Link Capacity for Photonic Interposers”, demonstrates an electro-optical router implemented in 28 nm CMOS on a photonic ...
Imec has unveiled a 7‑bit, 175GS/s ADC that combines a record-small footprint (250 x 250µm²) and low conversion energy with one of the fastest sampling speeds ever reported. As such, the ADC meets the rapidly increasing throughput and processing demands of AI- and cloud-driven datacentres, without the area and power explosion typically seen at ultra-high sampling rates. Driven by AI and ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) has developed a 10G TSN endpoint Ethernet IP core, enabling deterministic real-time communication at data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s. The core adds to Fraunhofer’s portfolio of Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) IP cores. It is designed for demanding applications that require maximum bandwidth, precise time synchronisation and reliable data transmission with exact timing. ...
Researchers from Edinburgh University, the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the University of Lille, Grenoble Alpes University, the University of Bayreuth and the European Synchrotron facility have created a new type of highly effective semiconductor material. Until now the material, made by combining the chemical elements germanium and tin, was thought to be near-impossible to make, although research had suggested ...
A new experiment at the University of Leeds suggests that the future of high-speed wireless communication may lie in a largely unused region of the electromagnetic spectrum. In ‘Free-space optical communications at 4Gbit/s data rate with a terahertz laser’, published in Communications Physics, the team demonstrated how terahertz-frequency light can be used to transmit data wirelessly, through open air, at speeds far beyond those previously achieved at these frequencies. Terahertz waves sit between ...
Replacing copper in semiconductor packaging with microLED optical links increases data rates and speed while resolving the issues of heat generation encountered by more traditional designs. Singapore’s NSC (New Silicon Corporation) exhibited its latest project at Asia Photonics Expo 2026. Using silicon nitride waveguides and micro LEDs to connect, for example a GPU and high bandwidth memory results in 32Tbps/mm ...
The importance of Singapore as a technology hub was reinforced today at the opening of the Asia Photonics Expo (APE) 2026. This year’s APE (4-6 February) is at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. The three-day conference and exhibition will host more than 350 exhibitors, from 17 countries and regions and expects to welcome 6,000 guests from 50 countries. “The ...
