Electronics

A spare CCD sensor left over from building the Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera, its square imaging surface on a gold-plated mount in an aluminium carrier

30/10/2026
Electronics

How does a CCD sensor work? A pixel’s charge can travel 4,096 steps before it is read

A Sandia National Laboratories researcher at a probe station measures the wavelength of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, whose bright emission spot appears magnified on the monitor

22/12/2024
Electronics, Photonics

Optoelectronics for High Energy Experiments: Evolution and Emerging Capabilities

A particle track passes through a translucent polycrystalline diamond sensor bump-bonded to a pixel readout chip; the pixels beneath the track light up red.

21/12/2024
Electronics, Semiconductors

The Future of Particle Detection: Diamond Pixel Sensors

Silicon particle-tracking detector hardware

06/10/2024
Electronics, Semiconductors

Improving Spatial Resolution in Silicon Particle Detectors: How Physicists Do It

Die photograph of an Nvidia TU104 graphics processor from a GeForce RTX 2080, showing the repeating blocks of its streaming multiprocessors

14/09/2024
Electronics

How Nvidia’s AI Chips Change Computing with Unique Power

A silicon wafer

12/12/2023
Electronics, Semiconductors

How Radiation Damage Degrades Silicon Detectors (And How Physicists Fight It)

Microscope view of a hard disk drive read-write head slider on its gimbal with gold flex-circuit traces, with a 1 mm scale bar

07/12/2023
Electronics

Spintronics Explained: GMR, MRAM and the Road to Spin Logic

Optical micrograph of an AMD Zen 5 compute die, a 4 nm class FinFET chip, with four cores on each side of the shared cache in the centre

04/09/2023
Electronics, Semiconductors

FinFET to Nanosheet: The Transistor Shift Powering Your Next CPU

A researcher peers into the vacuum chamber of a four-probe scanning tunnelling microscope, an instrument that works by measuring quantum tunnelling current

14/08/2023
Quantum physics

Quantum Tunnelling: Can it Lead to the Remarkable Faster-Than-Light Travel?

A full-frame CMOS image sensor exposed inside a camera body, beside a much smaller CMOS sensor in a compact camera module

26/07/2023
Electronics

CCD vs CMOS: Which Camera Sensor Actually Takes Better Photos?

Close-up of a patterned silicon wafer, its grid of chips glowing in iridescent colours against a black background

26/07/2023
Electronics, Semiconductors

How the Scaling of the CMOS Technology is Impacting Modern Microelectronics