Introduction of Children’s Mobile Phone by KYOCERA
Japan being a relatively safe country to live in, currently has been hit with number of unsolved and gruesome child murder cases which shocked the whole nation. In the country where children can walk freely and safely from school to home in absence of school bus services, these type of crime has alerted many parents to take every measures in insuring the safety of their loved ones. One such measure is the introduction of location base tracking technology which can be embedded in child school bag for easy tracking of their activity and whereabouts. Read more
Development of a Single Lens 3D Camera technology by Sony
In an existing 3D camera system where half mirror has been deployed in order to separate lenses for left and right eyes, the depth of the 3D images can be modified thanks to adjustable parallax range. But operating the zoom and focus functions in these systems does not fully coordinate closely to match the sensitivity of human eyes in terms of differences in size and rotational movement of dual images as well as any vertical misalignment or differences in image quality. To address this issue Sony made an announcement earlier this month on development of single lens 3D camera technology which incorporates mirror in place of shutter so that the incoming light can be now simultaneously separated into left and right images and recorded as it reaches the parallel light area of the relay lens. This is the area where diverging light from the point of focus on the subject matter becomes parallel resulting in separation of left and right image processing and then recorded with the help of left and right image sensors. Read more
Development of world’s first Photo Alignment Technology for LCD panels by Sharp
Sharp Corporation today made an announcement today on development of world’s first Photo Alignment technology to be used for LCD panels. The new technology is capable of precisely controlling the alignment of liquid crystal molecules in a simple LCD panel structure. In achieving this Sharp has made use of special material that responds to ultraviolet rays and at the same time has developed UV2A Technology a photo-alignment technology capable for purpose of aligning film in LCD panels, providing a highly accurate control over the alignment of liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the direction of radiation. Read more
Japan Technology Information Newly opened “Business Opportunity” page
As our continuing effort to bring the latest news from Japan to our audiences across the globe through our partnership with TrendyMix inc. here in Japan we have opened a new channel in both helping companies interested to work with Japanese companies whom their products have been show cased in our blog as well as the companies from overseas that are interested to expand their business in Japan. As a result of this we have opened the Business Opportunity page within our blog helping interested companies to contact us.
Development of Programmable Defect Prediction Technology by NEC
Defect prediction is a new LSI technology where an LSI maintains a high reliability by preventing errors and continuing to operate correctly. The current error handling procedures of conventional technologies are complicated and expensive since they are initiated only after errors occur where as the defect prediction technology enables a highly-reliable system at a low cost since the system can take precautions before errors occur. Furthermore, maintaining a high reliability and low cost among the future ultra-fine, large-scale LSI is expected to be a difficult task to accomplish. In response to this mundane challenge, NEC and NEC Electronics Corporation (NECEL) announced the development of a programmable defect prediction technology. Read more
Development of scalable High-Speed MRAM technology for system LSI Embedding by NEC
Due to the progress in reducing cell size and the large capacity of system LSI, power consumption has increased. The current demands require reduced power consumption, which is partially accomplished by switching off during stand-by mode, a function that requires easy-use nonvolatile memory. In response to these market demands, NEC developed the world’s fastest SRAM-compatible MRAM with operation speed of 250 MHz in November 2007, and 32 Mbit MRAM for embedding in SoCs in February 2009. Read more
Development of new High-k/Ge Gate Stack technology for 16 nm node by Toshiba
Toshiba Corporation today made an announcement on the development of a gate stack and interlayer with high carrier mobility which can be applied to advanced metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) in next generation LSIs. The ultra-thin, Equivalent Oxide Thickness (EOT) scalable high-k/Ge gate stack with strontium germanide (SrGex ) interlayer with high carrier mobility is a basic technology with potential for application in MISFETs at the 16 nm node and beyond. Equivalent Oxide Thickness is a number used to compare performance of high-k dielectric MOS gates with performance of SiO2 based MOS gates. It shows thickness of SiO2 gate oxide that is needed to obtain the same gate capacitance as the one obtained with thicker than SiO2 dielectric featuring higher dielectric. The current MISFET uses silicon for the channel, but inherent physical limitation of silicon would make it difficult to obtain a sufficient drive current in future scaled down MISFET. On the other hand germanium (Ge) as an alternative to Silicon features higher carrier mobility but significant technical challenges exist in implementing germanium in LSIs. One of such challenges is development of gate stack structures for Ge-MISFETs. There has been some reports in achieving high hole mobility by adopting germanium dioxide (GeO2) in the gate stack insulating layer, but due to its low dielectric constant, there still remains the challenge of reducing the EOT to 0.5 nm, which is required for the 16 nm node and beyond. Read more
The world’s first personal moving media Fukidasystem
We have seen all sort of advertising technique aiming to grab the attention of its audiences and consumer alike such as target oriented advertisement technology used by many in this industry but never before in form of personal moving media. The “Fukidasystem” may very well revolutionize the advertisement industry. “Fukidasystem” is a next generation advertisement technology which recognizes a person who passes through the specific area and projects the advertisement on the wall individually like a speech balloon in a comic book. Read more
Development of new inkjet technology for OLED display fabrication process by Seiko Epson
OLED televisions are considered as the next generation of display but in spite of their outstanding viewing characteristics such as high contrast, wide viewing angle, fast response time plus their light weight, ultra-thinness and low power consumption, the mass production of large screen OLED TVs has been hampered by lack of a technology capable of reliably forming uniform organic layers on large substrates limiting their application to small screen Laptop PCs and mobile phone screens as well other mobile devices with screen. Up to now, the method for depositing organic materials has been Vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE), but this method has an inherent technical difficulty in overcoming layer uniformity issue making it difficult to start a mass production of large OLED panels. Read more
Development of new sound source separation technology by Hitachi
Hitachi has developed a new sound source separation technology which is capable of recognizing a specific voice even in the noisy environment. This new sound source separation technology has the noise control processing that uses multiple microphones to predict and remove the noise which is caused by reflection from wall or t ceiling in a room. Further to this the system is capable of revising a distortion from the extracted sound. Read more
