NASA's quest for smaller, energy-efficient space cameras led to a revolutionary imaging technology. Eric Fossum's innovation ...

Researchers have fabricated a new high-performance shortwave infrared (SWIR) image sensor based on non-toxic colloidal quantum dots. They report on a new method for synthesizing functional ...

Since its inception within the microelectronics industry, CMOS capacitive sensing has emerged as a transformative approach for label-free, noninvasive interrogation of biological systems. By ...

A photograph of the developed prototype. The system is designed such that the spintronic probabilistic bit comprising a stochastic magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) [left] generates a physical random ...

Recent advances in terahertz technology are significantly expanding the horizon of high-speed, high-frequency electronic and photonic systems. Positioned between microwave electronics and infrared ...

CMOS sensors are now so ordinary that it's easy to forget how transformative they were. They're used in an ever-growing list of devices, from dedicated cameras, smartphones and webcams, to security ...

Improved bonding technology helped Toshiba and IBM Corp. develop a higher performance CMOS FET. CMOS has traditionally played a central role in semiconductor design, a position now under threat as ...