The continued growth of wireless and cellular data traffic relies heavily on light waves. Microwave photonics is the field of technology that is dedicated to the distribution and processing of ...

Of the many feats achieved by artificial intelligence (AI), the ability to process images quickly and accurately has had an especially impressive impact on science and technology. Now, researchers in ...

Wetting phenomena govern the interaction between molten silicon and the surfaces it contacts during high-temperature processing, influencing both material integrity and device performance. At the ...

Silicon sees the light: Elham Fadaly (left) and Alain Dijkstra in their Eindhoven lab. (Courtesy: Sicco van Grieken/SURF) A light-emitting silicon-based material with a direct band gap has been ...

Waveguide Bragg gratings in silicon form a cornerstone of integrated photonic signal processing, combining high refractive-index contrast with mature CMOS-compatible fabrication. By etching periodic ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance. (Nanowerk News) Quantum systems are the rising stars ...

In the world of electric (EV) and software-defined vehicles (SDV), a key challenge and opportunity besets original equipment manufacturers (OEM): that of effectively harnessing in-vehicle and silicon ...

Made of silicon, these in-sensor visual processing arrays can both capture and process visual data in the analog domain, as opposed to conventional systems that often physically separate these ...

Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have used intense pulsed light (IPL) processing for the development of a busbarless silicon heterojunction solar cell. ILP ...

New and Enhanced NVIDIA DOCA Security Capabilities for Vera BlueField-4 STX Help Protect AI Agents, Context Memory and File-Based Data Access Directly in Silicon NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Brings ...

image: High-end wireless and cellular networks rely on light for the distribution of signals. The selective processing of such signals requires long delays: too long to support on a chip using light ...