Research Overview

The Microelectronics Technology Opportunity Engine for March 2022 covers innovations pertaining to micro-LEDs, wearables, VCSEL, RISC V, and memory. Some of the key innovations profiled include micro-LED based augmented reality glasses for enterprise solution, millimeter wave integrated circuits for 5G antennas, VCSEL for LIDAR applications, 32 bit RISC V central processing unit for automotive applications, AI chipsets enabling metaverse processing, and SoCs for satellite Internet of Things among others.

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).