Digit

UPI may soon support face ID and fingerprint payments, no PIN needed

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is reportedly working on biometric authentication for UPI payments. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is likely to be able to authenticate transactions ...
Nextgov

SSA to make planned ID checks for additional phone transactions ‘entirely optional’

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Social Security Administration says that it is altering planned requirements for callers to pass identity checks to request a claims ...
Hackaday

New Bismuth Transistor Runs 40% Faster And Uses 10% Less Power

Recently in material science news from China we hear that [Hailin Peng] and his team at Peking University just made the world’s fastest transistor and it’s not made of silicon. Before we tell you ...
Electronic Design

MOSFET Packaging Results In Smaller Eight-Pin Devices

Reporting a 30% smaller footprint than six-pin VS-6 devices, the VS-8 eight-pin, surface-mount package for power MOSFETs measures just 0.85-mm thick. Currently available packages are said to measure 1 ...
Electronics Weekly

Toshiba adds four-pin SiC mosfet to cut losses

Toshiba has picked a four-pin package for its latest third-generation silicon carbide mosfets. “Devices in the TWxxxZxxxC series are the first Toshiba SiC products to be housed in a TO-247-4L(X) ...
Phys.org

Researchers demonstrate scaling of aligned carbon nanotube transistors to below sub-10 nm nodes

Carbon nanotubes, large cylindrical molecules composed of hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure, recently attracted significant attention among electronics engineers. Due to their ...
AZOM

MOSFETs and Their Advantages Over Other Transistors

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have revolutionized the world of electronics due to their remarkable performance and widespread applications. The MOSFET transistor is a ...