The newly developed shape memory polymer resist which allows for high-resolution 4D printing, promises a platform for information hiding for optical anti-counterfeiting and tunable photonic devices.
Semiconductors
Maskless Lithography Microfabrication for High Volume Production
New Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) allow a single light source to be parallelized into thousands or millions of smaller light beams that can be used to write simultaneously. With this new capability, machines with higher throughput can expose the entire wafer surface in a reasonable amount of time.
Light-Induced Twisting of Weyl Nodes Switches on Giant Electron Current
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new light-induced switch that twists the crystal lattice of the material, switching on a giant electron current that appears to be nearly dissipationless.
Cadence to Acquire NUMECA to Expand System Analysis Capabilities with Computational Fluid Dynamics
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUMECA International, a leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mesh generation, multi-physics simulation and optimization.
Semtech and Digital Matter Announce New Battery-Powered Indoor/Outdoor Asset Tracker using LoRa Edge
Semtech Corporation announced Digital Matter has utilized Semtech’s LoRa Edge™ asset management platform to develop the Yabby Edge, an innovative battery-powered tracking device for indoor/outdoor asset management.
EV Group Establishes Customer Training Facility at Corporate Headquarters
EV Group (EVG) today announced that it has established the EVG Academy, a training facility for customers that provides technical training on all classes of EVG equipment as well as on EVG’s CIM Framework software platform in an optimized environment.
Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 7.3% in 2020
Following a decline of 12% in 2019, worldwide semiconductor revenue rebounded in 2020 to total $449.8 billion, an increase of 7.3% from 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
CMOS-Compatible 3D Ferroelectric Memory with Ultralow Power and High Speed
A POSTECH research team has recently demonstrated a ferroelectric memory that exceedingly surpasses the performance of the conventional flash memory in terms of operation speed, power consumption, and device reliability.
Semiconductor Chip that Detects Exhaled Gas with High Sensitivity at Room Temperature
Third-year doctoral student Toshiaki Takahashi, associate professor Kazuhiro Takahashi, and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a testing chip using semiconductor micro-machining that can detect volatile gasses in exhaled breath in ppm concentrations at room temperature.
TSMC Reports Fourth Quarter EPS of NT$5.51
TSMC announced consolidated revenue of NT$361.53 billion, net income of NT$142.77 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$5.51 (US$0.97 per ADR unit) for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020.
