On February 6, 1959, Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments filed a patent for the first ever integrated circuit, an invention ...

In 1958, the American free-market economist Leonard E Read published his famous essay I, Pencil, in which he made his point ...

Over the past two decades, photonic integrated circuits made from silicon have quickly moved from just being studied in academic settings to being widely used in data centres and telecommunication ...

Different challenges have to be overcome when designing integrated circuits. Besides schematic and layout design work, verification in view of the non-ideal behavior of circuits and semiconductor ...

To make stretchable electronics, engineers must start with materials that can tolerate strain. That’s why the ability to endure being stretched is a sought-after quality in flexible electronics, ...

Silicon Carbide (SiC) integrated circuits are emerging as a critical technology in the development of electronics capable of reliable operation in extreme thermal environments. The unique material ...

The multi-level intermediate states of phase change materials realized by laser-writing technique open up their potential applications in optical computing, and reconfigurable metasurfaces.

Photonic integrated circuits are essential to many technologies, including fiber-optic communications, mapping systems, and biosensors. These circuits – which use photons instead of electrons – employ ...