Microchips

MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chipA new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.

Picture-perfectQuick, efficient chip cleans up common flaws in amateur photographs.

Chips that can steer lightRecord-setting ‘optical phased arrays’ could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.

Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistorNew design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.

Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominanceMIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectanglesNew technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.

New chip captures power from multiple sourcesSystem developed at MIT could combine power harvested from light, heat and vibrations to run monitoring systems.

Chips as mini InternetsThe data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.

Moving microfluidics from the lab bench to the factory floorThe Center for Polymer Microfabrication designs manufacturing processes for a new generation of diagnostic tools.

Testing unbuilt chipsA new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.

Tiny 3-D chipsMIT researchers develop a new approach to producing three-dimensional microchips.

New material could lead to faster chipsGraphene may solve communications speed limit