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onsemi Launches Highly Efficient USB Power Delivery Solutions

“Higher frequency AC/DC controllers and drivers improve industrial design while ensuring optimal efficiency across the load range onsemi (Nasdaq: ON), a leader in intelligent power and sensing technologies, today launched a trio of products for USB Power Delivery (PD …

Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires

“Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly stable qubits, the building blocks of future quantum computers. Scientists see a new result in topological insulator devices as an important step towards realizing the technology’s potential. An …

Researchers Use Light for Thermomagnetic Recording on Silicon Waveguide

“Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, light-induced thermomagnetic recording in a magnetic thin-film on silicon waveguides. The new writing technique is poised to enable miniature high-performance magneto-optical memories that don’t require bulky optics or mechanical rotation. Magneto-optical storage …

Rice ‘metalens’ could disrupt vacuum UV market

“Solid-state nanophotonic technology could potentially replace cabinets of equipment. Rice University photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market. By precisely etching hundreds of tiny triangles on the surface of a microscopic film of zinc …

Samsung Electronics Introduces Industry’s First 512GB CXL Memory Module

“Newly developed CXL memory packs 4x the memory capacity over the previous version, enabling a server to scale to tens of terabytes with only one-fifth of the system latency Samsung to also introduce an upgraded version of its open-source software …

Scientists discovers new properties of magnetism that could change our computers

“Our electronics can no longer shrink and are on the verge of overheating. But in a new discovery from the University of Copenhagen, researchers have uncovered a fundamental property of magnetism, which may become relevant for the development of a …

Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil

“NASA-funded study breaks new ground in plant research In the early days of the space age, the Apollo astronauts took part in a visionary plan: Bring samples of the lunar surface material, known as regolith, back to Earth where …

Scientists solve the Mystery about the Active Phase in Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction

“An international research team led by researchers of Stockholm University has for the first time been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. The results – obtained at DESY´s brilliant light …

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

“The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy. Nestled 30 feet underground in Menlo Park, California, a half-mile-long stretch of tunnel is now …

STMicroelectronics cooperates with Semikron to integrate silicon-carbide power technology in next-generation electric-vehicle drives

“STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has revealed it is supplying silicon carbide (SiC) technology for the eMPack® electric-vehicle (EV) power modules from Semikron, one of the world’s leading manufacturers …