Nature

CMOS Voltage Reference Circuits

CMOS voltage reference circuits are integral to modern electronic systems, providing a stable and reproducible voltage that underpins the performance of myriad integrated devices. These circuits ...
EurekAlert!

GaN-based CMOS circuits make power integrated systems more efficient

In recent years, gallium nitride (GaN) has emerged as a compelling candidate to complement the silicon material used in wireless communication and power conversion applications. Benefits of GaN ...
Electronic Design

It’s Hot, Powering, And Burning CMOS Logic Circuits

Fig 1. A typical CMOS input circuit comprises a “P” and “N” transistor. One is fully “on” for logic high, and the other is “on” for a logic low. Fig 2. When a CMOS input pin is at logic high or low ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
Hackaday

CMOS Oscillator Circuit Gets An Eatable Input

In interaction designer [Leonardo Amico]’s work Processing Decay, lettuce is used as an input to produce sound as an element within a CMOS circuit. We’ve all seen lemons and potatoes doubling in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Designing and Simulating Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits Using Four-Parameter Model

New technical paper titled “Bridging the Gap between Design and Simulation of Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits” from researchers at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. “This work proposes a truly ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Solution-processable integrated CMOS circuits based on colloidal CuInSe2 quantum dots

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of California Irvine used quantum dots to create transistors which can be assembled into functional logic circuits. “Potential applications ...
NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH CMOS N-Type Diamond Transistors

Diamond CMOS needs symmetrical doping control like we have for semiconductor silicon and diamond n-MOS is needed. The n-channel diamond MOSFETs are demonstrated. This work will enable the development ...
EDN

32 kHz CMOS Watch Circuit

The PCA2000 and PCA2001 are CMOS integrated circuits for battery operated wrist watches with a 32 kHz quartz crystal as timing element and a bipolar 1 Hz stepping motor. The quartz crystal oscillator ...
News Medical

Using CMOS Devices to Capture Cell Images

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) is a type of circuit known to be cost-effective and efficient. These circuits are found in many day-to-day items, such as batteries and the image sensors ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers develop energy-efficient computer by combining CMOS with stochastic nanomagnet

A photograph of the developed prototype. The system is designed such that the spintronic probabilistic bit comprising a stochastic magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) [left] generates a physical random ...