Research Overview

The Microelectronics Technology Opportunity Engine for January 2022 covers innovations in wearables, power management, antennas, wireless charging, and processors. Some of the key innovations profiled include power management technologies for integrated circuits; wearables suitable for skin hydration and diabetes tracking; wireless power transmission for electric vehicles, robots, and consumer electronic devices; and programmable AI chipsets for edge computing applications.

The Microelectronics Technology Opportunity Engine captures global electronics-related innovations and developments on a weekly basis. Developments are centered on electronics attributed by low power and cost, smaller size, better viewing, display and interface facilities, wireless connectivity, higher memory capacity, flexibility and wearables. Research focus themes include small footprint lightweight devices (CNTs, graphene), smart monitoring and control (touch and haptics), energy efficiency (LEDs, OLEDs, power and thermal management, energy harvesting), and high speed and improved conductivity devices (SiC, GaN, GaAs).