December 15, 2014, IEDM, San Francisco—Kaustav Banerjee from UCSB described recent work in the design, fabrication, characterization and studies of skin effect in graphene inductors. The work In many areas, inductors are used for frequency control functions in filters, oscillators, and switches. All of these applications are critical in communications operations, and many applications need…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Shahar Feldman from Microsemi addressed the issues of power and heat in Ethernet networks. The standards for power over Ethernet allow for fairly significant levels of power delivery over the same wires as the data and control lines. At issue is the need for heat and thermal…
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Yong Tack Hong from Seoul National University presented results of their work in ink printed stretchable electronics for displays and sensors. This work is based on silver doped carbon nana-tubes and other thin films for the OTFTs on stretchable substrates. They are working on various printing technologies…