Figure 1: Examples of printed, flexible electronics: RFID tags, biomedical monitoring, display and visual e↵ects, smart wings. Images from [1,2, 33, 75] In the early days of the semiconductor industry, designing complex circuits was an art. Skilled practitioners strove for elegant and e cient designs with the highest performance using the fewest possible transistors. By the early 1970’s, with t...

Analog very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits that perform the selection process for attentive sensory processing are presented. These circuits use excitatory feedback in a winner-take-all computation to produce a hysteresis in the selection from one location to the next. They also use an inhibitory mechanism to disengage attention so that more than one stimulus is attended, even when the ...

The very large number of channels and high data rates in modern particle physics experiments put very stringent requirements on the acquisition of data. To reduce the cost as well as the number of cables required to transport the data from detector to counting room, it is necessary to use very large scale integrated circuits for pre-processing the data right on the front-end circuit boards. Als...

Crystalline Si films on insulating substrates are needed for high-performance large scale integrated circuits, for high voltage devices, and for large area circuits used in flat-panel displays. Such films have been successfully formed by selective melting and recrystallization of polycrystalline Si deposited from the vapor on oxidized Si wafers and on bulk fused silica. Depending on the precurs...

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors play an important part in many integrated electronic circuits in the areas of analog, microwave, and radio frequency systems. However the transverse dimensions of current MIM capacitors are in the micrometer scale. If integrated circuits continue to be miniaturized, the capacitor, alongside other components, must also be miniaturized to realize nanoelectro...

investigated for a number of low-cost, large-area applications, particularly those that are compatible with flexible plastic circuits1-12. The organic materials that have been used as active semiconductor materials include both sublimed and solutionprocessed semiconductors such as pentacene6,7,13-24, oligothiophenes21,22,25-32, hexadecafluorocopper phthalocyanine28-33, polythiophene8,32,34-39, ...

A newly developed optical method for noninvasively measuring the switching activity of operating CMOS integrated circuit chips is described. The method, denoted as picosecond imaging circuit analysis (PICA) can be used to characterize the gate-level performance of such chips and identify the locations and nature of their operational faults. The principles underlying PICA and examples of its use...

Rio de Janeiro’s Integrated Command and Control Center (CICC-RJ ) has already seen duty in several large scale events which happened in town, some planned, others not. CICC-RJ is part of Rio de Janeiro state’s response to the Brazilian national government’s mandate to improve the state’s ability to anticipate and respond coherently to public safety events in the region. Its infrastructure is in...

An integrated circuit design facility has been established at APL to help tap the vast potential of very large scale integrated circuits for space applications. A custom N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor chip containing 7000 transistors has been successfully fabricated by a silicon foundry using the design database produced by the APL facility. This project is a tangible step toward creating ...

The recent progress is reviewed and future prospects of silicon photonics in next generation communication and computing systems are probed. Leveraging the many-billion-dollar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) industry, silicon photonics has promising prospects for realising very large-scale electronic and photonic integrated circuits with thousands of optical components and millio...