Spanning the entire electronics value chain, SEMICON Japan 2019 will gather industry visionaries to explore strategies for creating an even smarter world as the event sets its sights on the latest developments and trends in robotics, 5G mobile communications, Smart Manufacturing, Smart cars and other Smart applications. December 11-13 at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, SEMICON Japan is the largest and most influential exhibition in Japan for the electronics manufacturing supply chain. Registration for SEMICON Japan 2019 is now open.
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Alertgy and Okmetic Oy Win for Top MEMS and Imaging Sensors Innovations at Technology Summit
SEMI today announced Alertgy and Okmetic Oy as winners of the SEMI MEMS & Imaging Sensors SummitTechnology Showcase. The Alertgy non-invasive glucose monitor was crowned the best imaging technology, and the Okmetic Oy silicon substrate manufacturing platform was the winning MEMS technology. Attendees voted for the top technology in each category among 10 finalists selected by a committee of industry experts.
MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress Technology Showcase Finalists Highlight Innovations in Automotive, Biomedical and Consumer Electronics
Highlighting the world’s first DNA search engine, 4D LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, wearable biosensors for healthcare and other innovations, MEMS & Sensors Industry Group, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, today announced Technology Showcase finalists for the 15thannual MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress (MSEC), October 22-24, 2019 at Coronado Island Marriott Resort & Spa in Coronado, Calif.
Seoul Semiconductor Successfully Obtains Permanent Injunction against Patent Infringement in U.S. Following German Court’s Injunction Orders
Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ 046890) (“Seoul”), a global innovator of LED products and technology, announced on September 26 that it won a patent infringement lawsuit against Service Lighting And Electrical Supplies, Inc., an operator of “1000bulbs.com” – the largest online light bulb distribution channel. The Texas Northern District federal court issued a permanent injunction against the sales of more than 50 lighting products, as well as any colorable variations of those products unless they have been licensed, according to the parties’ stipulation.
Researchers Report a New Way to Produce Curvy Electronics
Contact lenses that can monitor your health as well as correct your eyesight aren’t science fiction, but an efficient manufacturing method – finding a way to produce the curved lenses with embedded electronics – has remained elusive. Until now. A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Colorado Boulder has reported developing a new manufacturing method, known as conformal additive stamp printing, or CAS printing, to produce the lenses, solar cells and other three-dimensional curvy electronics.
Samsung Introduces Industry’s First 0.7μm-pixel Mobile Image Sensor
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today introduced the industry’s first 0.7-micrometer (μm)-pixel image sensor, the 43.7-megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL Slim GH1. Thanks to advanced ISOELL Plus technology, the new ultra-high-resolution GH1 image sensor embraces 43.7-million 0.7μm-sized pixels in a super-small package, providing the optimum solution for slim full-display devices.
Bottom-Up Synthesis of Crystalline 2D Polymers
Scientists at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at TU Dresden have succeeded in synthesizing sheet-like 2D polymers by a bottom-up process for the first time. A novel synthetic reaction route was developed for this purpose. The 2D polymers consist of only a few single atomic layers and, due to their very special properties, are a promising material for use in electronic components and systems of a new generation. The research result is a collaborative work of several groups at TU Dresden and Ulm University and was published this week in two related articles in the scientific journals “Nature Chemistry” and “Nature Communications”.
Tachyum Joins Intel, AMD, and nVidia With New Headquarters in Santa Clara
Tachyum, a semiconductor startup and developer of the world’s first Universal Processor platform, today announced the opening of its new, larger corporate headquarters in Santa Clara to better accommodate the rapidly growing number of customers, partners, vendors and its growing personnel ranks. The new offices are located at 2520 Mission College Blvd, Suite 201, Santa Clara CA 95054. Tachyum’s new facilities will better enable the company to finish development, start marketing and selling its disruptive products that tackle the most pressing global issues in data centers, AI, telecommunications, edge computing and mobility today.
Illinois Researchers Develop New Framework For Nanoantenna Light Absorption
Harnessing light’s energy into nanoscale volumes requires novel engineering approaches to overcome a fundamental barrier known as the “diffraction limit.” However, University of Illinois researchers have breached this barrier by developing nanoantennas that pack the energy captured from light sources, such as LEDs, into particles with nanometer-scale diameters, making it possible to detect individual biomolecules, catalyze chemical reactions, and generate photons with desirable properties for quantum computing.
Nano Bulb Lights Novel Path
What may be viewed as the world’s smallest incandescent lightbulb is shining in a Rice University engineering laboratory with the promise of advances in sensing, photonics and perhaps computing platforms beyond the limitations of silicon. Gururaj Naik of Rice’s Brown School of Engineering and graduate student Chloe Doiron have assembled unconventional “selective thermal emitters” — collections of near-nanoscale materials that absorb heat and emit light.
