The semiconductor industry faces mounting challenges as the development of next-generation chips pushes against fundamental physical limits. In response, Cadenc ...

This book is the fourth volume in the New Era Electronics lecture notes series, a compilation of volumes defining the important concepts tied to the electronics transition happening in the 21st ...

Are your environmental test results exposing true device weaknesses, or just reflecting extreme stress conditions?

LMU researchers have directly measured a physical phenomenon that was theoretically described all the way back in 1933 – the polaron. When an electron travels through a polar crystalline solid, its ...

Scientists have decoded how heat flows in magnetic semiconductors, materials that are critical to emerging technologies such as spintronics, magnetic memory, and quantum devices. The discovery ...

In most conventional semiconductors, thermal conductivity decreases as temperature rises because heat-carrying lattice vibrations—called phonons—scatter more frequently.

Dr. Simon Min Sze, a semiconductor physics visionary most notable for his contributions to the invention of the world's first floating-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), ...

Quantum dots and quantum wells represent pivotal nanostructures in semiconductor physics, harnessing quantum confinement to yield discrete energy levels and tailored optical properties. Quantum dots, ...

For almost two decades, scientists have been trying to move beyond silicon, the material ...

How it works Schematic showing how a five-electron droplet (shown in blue) is transported inside the selected potential minimum of a SAW. Electrostatic gates (yellow) are used to guide the electron ...