In 1958, an engineer left alone during a summer shutdown built the first working integrated circuit

In 1958, engineer Jack Kilby revolutionized electronics by creating the first integrated circuit. Working alone, he combined ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What Is An Integrated Circuit?

You’re probably familiar with the little black boxes nestled neatly inside your favorite devices. With their diminutive size and unassuming characteristics, it can be hard to believe these vessels are ...
Electronic Design

High-Voltage Integrated Circuits

What are HVICs? High-voltage integrated circuits (HVICs) translate low-voltage control signals to levels that are suitable for driving power switches in high-voltage applications. HVICs also can ...
C&EN

Flexible integrated circuits are now stretchable and more powerful

To make stretchable electronics, engineers must start with materials that can tolerate strain. That’s why the ability to endure being stretched is a sought-after quality in flexible electronics, ...
Time

Cellphones that Repair Themselves? Scientists Create 'Self-Healing' Circuits

Electronic manufacturer VAS produces electronic circuit boards at their manufacturing facility in San Diego, California April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES SCI TECH) Cellphone, heal ...
EurekAlert!

Any color you like: NIST scientists create ‘any wavelength’ lasers in tiny circuits for light

Lindell Williams (left) and Grant Brodnik align an optical fiber with the edge of an integrated photonics chip. Optical fibers act as pipes for light, enabling the light generated on these chips to be ...
Phys.org

Photonic integrated circuits enable programmable non-Abelian 'braiding' of light states

A research team has successfully implemented a programmable spinor lattice on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This platform enables the realization of non-Abelian physics, in which the outcome of ...