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Secure virtual car key opens up new usage models
Secure virtual car key opens up new usage models
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The smartphone as a virtual car key has not yet arrived in series production, but evolution has already taken this…
LIDAR Perception Challenges
LIDAR Perception Challenges
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A successful autonomous vehicle is going to have to use a tightly integrated system of sensors to replicate the driving…
LIDAR Perception Challenges
LIDAR Perception Challenges
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A successful autonomous vehicle is going to have to use a tightly integrated system of sensors to replicate the driving…
Chinese foundry offers VCSEL arrays, optical comms ICs
Chinese foundry offers VCSEL arrays, optical comms ICs
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Compound semiconductor foundry Sanan Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China) has expanded its optical portfolio to include VCSEL arrays.

QSFP-DD800 MSA group releases new hardware specification
QSFP-DD800 MSA group releases new hardware specification
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On the heels of its 2019 debut, the Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density 800 (QSFP-DD800) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group has released a new hardware specification for the…
Cardiovascular disease diagnosis through Laser Doppler vibrometry
Cardiovascular disease diagnosis through Laser Doppler vibrometry
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Launched by a European consortium led by research centre Imec, the H2020 project InSiDe aims to develop a mobile diagnostic device based on silicon photonics to identify and characterize different…
Tough, flexible silicone sensor for wearable biomonitoring
Tough, flexible silicone sensor for wearable biomonitoring
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they have created a durable, flexible sensor for wearable devices to monitor everything from vital signs to athletic performance.
Graphene-doped silicone makes tough wearable flexible sensor
Graphene-doped silicone makes tough wearable flexible sensor
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Researchers from the University of Waterloo have combined 3D-printing with in-mold graphene inclusion to yield graphene-doped porous silicone pads usable as tough flexible pressure sensors sensitive to the faintest deformations.
Secure Vault technology protects against power attacks
Secure Vault technology protects against power attacks
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The Secure Vault technology from Silicon Labs protects System-on-chip designs from attack in the Internet of Things…
MIT robots learn from observing humans
MIT robots learn from observing humans
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Roboticists from MIT are developing automated robots that can learn new tasks solely by observing humans, instead of having to be painstakingly programmed for precise moves.
Virtual exhibition booths flourish with show cancellations
Virtual exhibition booths flourish with show cancellations
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With almost 100,000 people affected by the coronavirus, spreading from China to over 30 countries, and the news of novel outbreaks and city-wide quarantine measures in Italy, the pandemic is…
Low cost tandem perovskite solar cell tops 27 per cent efficiency
Low cost tandem perovskite solar cell tops 27 per cent efficiency
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A tandem solar cell combining a low cost perovskite material with a silicon photovoltaic base developed in the US tops 27 per cent efficiency.
Smelly fruit takes on graphene in supercapacitors
Smelly fruit takes on graphene in supercapacitors
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Researchers at the University of Sydney used waste from durian and jackfruit to create carbon aerogels for supercapacitors.
AI ‘captain’ of autonomous ship to begin sea trials
AI ‘captain’ of autonomous ship to begin sea trials
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IBM and marine research organization Promare have announced that a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that will enable the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) to self-navigate across the Atlantic later this…
3D breadboards ease testing, prototyping of circuit designs
3D breadboards ease testing, prototyping of circuit designs
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Using 3D-printing and purposely developed CAD software, researchers from the MIT propose to integrate the traditional flat breadboard into virtually any solid shape, complete with conductive pinholes, power rails and…
IMEC, CST Global to offer InP light sources on silicon
IMEC, CST Global to offer InP light sources on silicon
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European research center IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and III-V foundry CST Global Ltd. (Hamilton, Scotland) have integrated InP distributed feedback (DFB) lasers into IMEC's silicon photonics platform.
3D-printed curved breadboards for realistic electronics prototyping
3D-printed curved breadboards for realistic electronics prototyping
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Using 3D-printing and purposely developed CAD software, researchers from the MIT propose to integrate the traditional flat breadboard into virtually any solid shape, complete with conductive pinholes, power rails and…
Integrated virtualization system to support Industry 4.0 building information modelling
Integrated virtualization system to support Industry 4.0 building information modelling
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Architecture firm archis Architekten + Ingenieure together with Arnold IT Systems, the Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and cybersecurity vendor Wibu-Systems have…
Soft magnetic skin deforms, provides localized force sensing
Soft magnetic skin deforms, provides localized force sensing
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In a proof-of-concept project based on measuring magnetic-field changes, a research team developed a way to sense location and depth of deformation of an elastomeric “skin” embedded with millions of…
CEVA unveils most powerful DSP architecture for 5G
CEVA unveils most powerful DSP architecture for 5G
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CEVA, Inc., has unveiled the most powerful DSP architecture, the Gen4 CEVA-XC, which offers the highest performance of 1600 GOPS, innovative dynamic multithreading and advanced pipeline to reach operating speeds…
High temperature nanorelay for memory in power systems
High temperature nanorelay for memory in power systems
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A rotational nanorelay developed at the University of Bristol operates at temperatures up to 200°C and can be used to provide a memory subsystem for electric cars and aircraft…
Bio-inspired arrayed camera is only 740μm thick
Bio-inspired arrayed camera is only 740μm thick
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Following up on previously reported bio-inspired multi-faceted micro-camera designs, researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have shrunk their camera stack to a total track length…
Boost for MXene in supercapacitors and batteries
Boost for MXene in supercapacitors and batteries
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Researchers in Berlin have shown how the capacity of MXene "pseudo-capacitors" can be increased by more than 50 per cent for battery and supercapacitor designs.
“Most powerful quantum computer yet” to be released soon
“Most powerful quantum computer yet” to be released soon
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Multinational conglomerate Honeywell has announced that, thanks to a technological breakthrough, it plans to release "the most powerful quantum computer yet" within the next three months.
Imec and CST Global join forces on hybrid integrated InP light sources
Imec and CST Global join forces on hybrid integrated InP light sources
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Imec and CST Global announced they have successfully integrated InP distributed feedback (DFB) lasers from CST Global’s InP100 platform into imec’s integrated silicon photonics platform (iSiPP).
Nexperia, Ricardo team on GaN inverter demonstrator
Nexperia, Ricardo team on GaN inverter demonstrator
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Ricardo is using gallium nitride (GaN) FETs for a demonstration design of an inverter for electric vehicles…
Graphene tandem perovskite solar cell takes efficiency over 26 per cent
Graphene tandem perovskite solar cell takes efficiency over 26 per cent
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Europe's Graphene Flagship project has developed a perovskite tandem solar cell with efficiencies over 26 per cent.
New material combines properties of supercap and battery
New material combines properties of supercap and battery
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A new class of materials can store electrical energy very quickly. These are two-dimensional titanium carbides, so-called MXenes. Like a battery, they store large amounts of electrical energy through electrochemical…


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