Six-Junction III–V Solar Cell Breaks Record for Efficiency
The solar cell, designed at NREL, gets close to a 50% conversion rate, by far surpassing silicon-based solar cells...
Can the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch Save 2020?
1968 and 2020: Similarities include the glimmer of hope provided by the rocket launch amid war, social unrest, racial injustice…
What Today’s Engineers Need to Know
What does today’s engineer need to know? Daniel Cooley, Silicon Labs' chief strategy officer, went straight to four big industry-wide…
MEMS Tech to Combat the Coronavirus
The race against time to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a global flurry of activity and collaboration by technology…
Covid-19: Designs for Low-Cost Ventilators
Designers from all over the world are working to design and build special low-cost ventilators in no time to fight…
How Secure is U.S. Election Technology?
U.S. election infrastructure remains unsecured mere months before the next presidential election.
Combatting Covid-19 with Emerging Tech
Medical professionals are employing the latest technology to help mitigate the current pandemic that's hit nearly every continent.
‘Electronic Nose’ Inspired by Neuromorphic Technology
Detecting chemicals via their smells is useful for security and medical applications.
OFC 2020: The Future of Silicon Photonics and Optics
OFC 2020 went ahead with a combo of live and virtual events to explore the future of optics and silicon…
SMIC Graduates to Something Sort of Akin to 7nm
SMIC introduces an advanced 14nm production process as it tries to close the technology gap with the west.