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The Curiously Low-tech Side of High-tech Manufacturing
In this article, engineers discuss seemingly primitive parts of the manufacturing process and the feasibility of replacing those processes with automation.
When Will the Semiconductor Industry Bounce Back? Market Experts Weigh In
Just like other business activities, the electronics industry was adversely affected by COVID-19-related shutdowns with many companies facing reductions in purchase orders and, consequently,...
Supporting the Future: Semiconductor Manufacturers Focus on College Training Resources
Though there are many advantages of semiconductor manufacturers investing in EE education through funding university programs and projects, there are also drawbacks to consider.
Using polymer inhibitors to enable larger dynamic windows
Dynamic windows are a valuable technology that can help to decrease the carbon footprint of buildings. Dynamic windows are a class of windows with adjustable tint that allow users greater control...
A bio-inspired technique to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in binarized neural networks
Deep neural networks have achieved highly promising results on several tasks, including image and text classification. Nonetheless, many of these computational methods are prone to what is known as...
A social robot that could help children to regulate their emotions
In recent years, roboticists have developed a broad variety of social robots, robots designed to communicate with humans, assist them and support them in several different ways. This includes...
Molybdenum disulfide vertical transistors with channel lengths down to one atomic layer
Vertical transistors, transistors with channel lengths that are dependent on a semiconductor's thickness, could be highly valuable for the development of new generations of electronic devices. In...
Could the source of the GW190814 event be a black hole-strange quark star system?
On the 14th of August 2019, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected a gravitational wave signal believed to be associated with the merging of a binary stellar system composed of a black hole with a...
A system to benchmark the posture control and balance of humanoid robots
In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide variety of robots with human-like capabilities. This includes robots with bodies that structurally resemble those of humans, also known as humanoid...
A framework to simulate the same physics using two different Hamiltonians
Researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan have recently been investigating situations in which two distinct Hamiltonians could be used to simulate the...