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May 25, 2022

How to develop ever-better computer chips

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Worker in factory assembling a circuit board.

Apr 27, 2022

Lab-to-fab solutions for the future of semiconductor technology

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

A 3D-printed object placed on top of a coin.

Apr 20, 2022

Is there a better way to do 3D printing?

Electronics & Networking, Materials

Hands holding a compact optical device in a lab setting.

Mar 28, 2022

A team of engineers enable simple cameras to see in 3D

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Hands holding a light-emitting, stretchable polymer.

Mar 23, 2022

A stretchable display could transform how we interact with electronics

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Photo of electromagnetic rotors for use in generators.

Mar 22, 2022

How to build a better magnet

Electronics & Networking, Environment, Materials

Photo of cable trays overhead in a data center.

Mar 11, 2022

The crucial role of data compression

Electronics & Networking, Energy

Image of a laser

Dec 2, 2021

Stanford engineers propose a simpler design for quantum computers

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

Soon, there’ll be a faster, more efficient chip for every task, but it’ll take industry-wide cooperation to get there. | Stocksy/Cosma Andrei

Sep 21, 2021

Priyanka Raina: How computer chips get speedier through specialization

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

A new technology will make your phone much smarter. | Adobe Stock/elenabsl

Jul 29, 2021

New ‘AI-at-the-edge’ smartphone chip lives, and learns, close to home

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

How do we move past silicon? | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jul 19, 2021

Srabanti Chowdhury: New forms of semiconductors are key to the future

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

This next phase of semiconductor discovery will transcend electrical engineering and involve many other academic disciplines. | Stocksy/PER Images

Jul 8, 2021

Can Stanford University help solve the global semiconductor crisis?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

Engineers are concerned about everything from the availability of raw materials to how many miles can I go before I run out of juice? | iStock/Jeff_Hu

Jun 30, 2021

Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future?

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Bendable, shapeable computer circuits, worn on or implanted in the human body, could perform many health-related tasks. | iStock/Ilya Lukichev

Jun 17, 2021

Engineers develop a new technique to manufacture flexible electronics

Electronics & Networking, Health

New research allows a patient with paralysis to “write” their thoughts at some 17 words per minute, setting a new record. | Stocksy/Chris Zielecki

Jun 3, 2021

Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis

Electronics & Networking, Health

The future will be dominated by AI | iStock/mmustafabozdemir

Mar 29, 2021

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

A protoype of the RT-ELISA, essentially an entire lab within a chip with tiny pipes and valves no wider than a human hair | Photo by Caitlin Maikawa

Jan 4, 2021

A new lab-on-a-chip turns blood test snapshots into continuous movies

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Health

An artist’s rendition of the photoacoustic airborne sonar system operating from a drone to sense and image underwater objects. | Image by Kindea Labs

Nov 30, 2020

Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater

Electronics & Networking, Environment

It could be years before wireless chargers become embedded in highways, but there are fewer roadblocks for robots and aerial drones. | Unsplash/Kimi Lee

May 5, 2020

How we might recharge an electric car as it drives

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A new chip-based navigation technology could make autonomous cars economically viable. | ScienceSource/Andrzej Wojcicki

Apr 14, 2020

Could shrinking a key component make autonomous cars affordable?

Electronics & Networking, Transportation & Robotics

Gold still behaves like a solid at the nanoscale, says Stanford’s Wendy Gu | Unsplash/Aaron Munoz

Mar 24, 2020

As electronics shrink to nanoscale, will they still be good as gold?

Electronics & Networking, Materials

Researchers were able to lay the groundwork for creating quantum sources with controllable properties, such as color, intensity and position. | Getty Images/metamorworks

Feb 26, 2020

A team of researchers explore the defects in quantum materials

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Materials

The adoption of wearable electronics is limited by their need to derive power from bulky, rigid batteries that reduce comfort. | Unsplash/Nadine Shaabana

Jan 15, 2020

A new stretchable battery can power wearable electronics

Electronics & Networking

A bright idea for the next generation of chips. | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Dec 2, 2019

Can we develop computer chips that run on light?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Materials