Scientists are claiming to have found the "silver bullet" that will enable the cheap, easy printing of electronic components ...

Prior to integrated circuits, these electronic components were discrete devices soldered to each other on a printed circuit board. To learn how a digital circuit works, go to half adder and travel ...

Printed large-scale integrated circuits, LSI, can be used, for example, to power an electrochromic display, itself manufactured as printed electronics. (Image: Thor Balkhed, Linköping University) The ...

A common question in the wake of AI advancements is whether human engineers will eventually be replaced. The short answer is ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

Interestingly, the first integrated circuits came in the vacuum technology! A radio receiver was taxed based on the number of ...

A photonic integrated circuit is an integrated circuit with optical functions. Optical signals travel at the speed of light, which is faster than electronic signals. This speed is appealing, but ...

This work reports the first mid-infrared photonic integrated circuit that monolithically ... present three endoscopically implemented 3D-printed magnetically actuatable micro-optical systems.

First integrated circuit. Photo courtesy of Texas Instruments ... and asked why not connect transistors together using these printed lines of copper? And then finally he asked himself, why ...

The odds are that if you’ve heard about application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) at all, it’s in the context of cryptocurrency mining. For some currencies, the only way to efficiently ...