Research Bits: June 23


Redesigning high-NA EUV A researcher from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) proposes redesigning the illumination systems and projectors used in high-NA EUV lithography to reduce optical effects and enhance resolution. In the proposed projector design, the collector mirrors in the illumination system have a simpler design to bring short wavelengths of light from the EUV... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Eidola: Modeling Multi-GPU Network Communication Traffic in Distributed AI Workloads 🔗 University of Wisconsin-Madison, AMD Beyond Silicon: Materials, Mechanisms, and Methods for Physical Neural Computing 🔗 University of Lübeck, TU Hamburg InjectV: M... » read more

Research Bits: June 15


NAND in space Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University built ferroelectric NAND flash memory chips that can withstand up to 30 times higher radiation levels compared to conventional NAND. “If you send traditional flash memory to space, the radiation interacting with flash memory’s trapped electric charge can easily corrupt the data,” said Asif... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations DTCO of NOR-Type IGZO FeFETs for 3D Heterogeneous AI Memories: A Read-Centric Perspective 🔗 imec, KU Leuven ZK-Flex: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs 🔗 KAIST Thermal- and Aging-Aware Rowhamme... » read more

Research Bits: June 8


Multi-tasking transistor Researchers at Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) developed a zinc oxide (ZnO) and tellurium (Te) heterojunction transistor technology that exhibits negative differential transconductance (NDT), where current decreases over a certain voltage range. By precisely controlling overlap length between the two materials, the team realized double negati... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jun. 2


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Physical Foundation Models: Fixed HW implementations of large-scale neural networks 🔗 Yale University, Cornell University, Boston University, NTT Research Understanding Inference Scaling for LLMs: Bottlenecks, Trade-offs, and Performance Princip... » read more

Research Bits: Jun. 2


Integrated valleytronics device Researchers from Monash University designed a valleytronics circuit that can generate, direct, and read light-based information on a single chip. Potential applications include quantum computing, advanced imaging, and optical communication systems. “We employ a straightforward stacking approach to integrate ultrathin materials with metasurfaces, overcoming ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations SHIP: SRAM-Based Huge Inference Pipelines for Fast LLM Serving 🔗 Nvidia, Groq Not All Thoughts Need HBM: Semantics-Aware Memory Hierarchy for LLM Reasoning 🔗 USC, University of Wisconsin-Madison Water-based, large-scale transfer of... » read more

Research Bits: May 26


Simultaneous energy generation and emission Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and University of Osaka designed an organic semiconductor device that can both generate electricity from light and emit bright visible light. The researchers used two multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) molecules, v-DABNA and QAO, in a simple layered structure. Their... » read more

Research Bits: May 19


Programmable PIC Researchers from the University of Washington designed a low-power programmable photonic integrated circuit that is electrically reconfigurable and can be mass-produced. “This optical chip could help to accelerate the prototyping cycle while reducing power consumption for applications like AI computing. Our study is also the first time someone has shown that these kinds o... » read more

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