Powerful Perovskites

By Dan Crippen

As electronics move forward and researchers are constantly trying to figure out what the next step in tech will be, there is one field of work that is getting a lot of attention from a small group of people. What they are looking at is refining the potential of perovskite crystals, where a perovskite crystal…

Diving Into the Bandgap

By Dan Crippen

As the world continues to expand with more and more electronics pumped out every day there is a concern that good ol’ silicon may not be up to the tasks and demand of the future. Lately scientists have been looking into alternative materials to supplement and potentially even replace this long-standing pillar of technology. Though…

Quantum Crushes Record

By Dan Crippen

Quantum dots are making a comeback! After a few years of humbled excitement over quantum dots there comes a record breaking performance in speed of light emissions. What the researchers did was construct a plasmonic metal structure with certain characteristics that the quantum dots could be embedded into. The total speed that they achieved was…

Laser Deposition of Sulfur Enables Next-Gen Electronics

By Dan Crippen

A team in the US has developed a (relatively) simple way to execute 2D lithography in semiconductor manufacturing that stands to usher in a new era of electronics. What they are doing is using nano-meter thick MoSe2 crystal semiconductors and coating them with a protective silicon layer. The silicon layer provides the design for the semiconductor,…

Honey I Shrunk the Chip

By Dan Crippen

As innovation in technology continues to shrink devices that are more powerful than their predecessors, Moore’s Law remains a constant. Moore’s Law state that every two years computers computers end up doubling in processing power, and IBM is looking to ensure it’s survival. With much of the excitement about semiconductors starting to subside and industry…

IoT Chips for All Your Needs

By Dan Crippen

With the ever-expanding field of IoT there is much to connect before we see things like smart-cities and smart-houses really taking off. In an effort to put their products at the forefront of these developments Samsung has unveiled their family of three IoT chips (Artik) with varying capacity and functionality. While producing these chips to…