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Advanced Simulation Tools to Fight Microchip Variations
Process, device, and circuit simulation tools are essential in reducing time to market and the cost of new microchip technology development, delivering faster…
Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen
How can solar energy be stored so that it can be available any time, day or night, when the sun shining or not? EPFL scientists are developing a technology…
Semiconductor devices: Under mounting stress
Thinner semiconductor wafers to house electronic circuits are needed so that more computing power can be packed into ever-smaller electrical products.Thinning,…
Pavements Designed to Fight Climate Change Could Increase Energy Consumption in Surrounding Buildings
The new paving materials are designed to lower the overall temperature of the areas where they are used—something that the study, which was focused on local…
Medical devices powered by the ear itself
Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. In today’s…
Ben-Gurion University develops side-illuminated ultra-efficient solar cell designs
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a radically new design for a concentrator solar cell that, when irradiated from the…