EE Times’ 20 hot technologies for 2012: Learn more in IEEExplore

It’s time for the annual year-end summaries and predictions about next year.  In December, Peter Clarke, Rick Merritt, Nicolas Mokhoff of the EE Times published a list of what they consider to be twenty “hot technologies for 2012.”  Their list is below.  Their article describes each technology and gives their rationale, along with links.

If you would like to learn about these technologies, I suggest that there is no better place to start than IEEExplore.  Just to see, I searched on these terms, and found the number of papers indicated in brackets.  Of course, in some cases searching requires making some choices about how the words are entered, so others may get somewhat different results.

1. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) [20,228]
2. Wireless sensor networks [35,574]
3. Internet of Things [645]
4. Plastic electronics [38]
5. NFC (Near Field Communications) [331]
6. Printed electronics [116]
7. Energy harvesting  [1628]
8. Graphene [1892]
9. Next-generation non-volatile memory [17]
10. Processors [72,242]
11. Graphics and GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processor units) [439]
12. EUV (extreme Ultra Violet) [821]
13. Solar conversion [32]
14. White space radio [603]
15. LTE (Long Term Evolution) [3047]
16. 40/100 Gbit/second Ethernet [~250]
17. Mobile OSes with Android [5]
18. AMOLEDs (Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) [186]
19. Smart grid technologies [2533]
20. 3-D  ICs [289]

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