Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a chip manufacturing technique that shrouds transistors in a cloak of silicon dioxide to shield them from the wafer substrate in order to control electrons more ...

A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity. Previously only thought to be insulating, a shift in the ...

Microchips are in pretty much all of our electronic devices—if it’s got a plug or a battery, it’s probably got a chip. For the past 60 years, most of these have been made of silicon. But new ...

The researchers directed a focused, high-speed beam of pure silicon-28 at a silicon chip so the silicon-28 gradually replaced the silicon-29 atoms in the chip, reducing silicon-29 from 4.5% to two ...

Soitec, a leading French provider of semiconductor materials, has partnered with research institute CEA-Leti to develop cybersecurity chips based on Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) ...

CEA-Leti and Soitec are to use the natural attributes of fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) to enhance the cybersecurity of integrated circuits. “With FD-SOI’s advantages against laser fault ...

Hubei Jiufengshan Laboratory, with CNY8.2 billion (approx. US$1.12 billion) subsidy from the Chinese government, has integrated a laser light source into a silicon chip, marking a milestone in ...

The fabrication started with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers that have a 400 nm-thick silicon layer. Lithography and dry etching were followed by doping for metal oxide semiconductor capacitor ...

Researchers create a photonic engine that can manipulate microwave and optical signals and convert the signals between the two domains ...