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Wafer scale RBG MicroLEDs simplify transfer process
Wafer scale RBG MicroLEDs simplify transfer process
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At Display Week, researchers from CEA-Leti presented several papers relating to the manufacture of RBG MicroLED pixels and their transfer…
Plastic waveguide for AR promises lower costs
Plastic waveguide for AR promises lower costs
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Californian startup DigiLens has developed an AR eyeglasses-type demonstrator featuring what the company claims to be the world’s first plastic…
Experimental optical chip works like a brain
Experimental optical chip works like a brain
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An international research team from the universities of Münster (Germany), Oxford and Exeter (both Great Britain) has succeeded in developing…
GaN-on-Silicon microLED full HD display makes debut
GaN-on-Silicon microLED full HD display makes debut
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Together with its backplane partner, Jasper Display (JDC), Plessey has succeeded in the wafer level bonding of its GaN-on-Silicon monolithic…

Smart 140 GHz MIMO radar adds machine learning
Smart 140 GHz MIMO radar adds machine learning
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At FutureSummits 2019, imec will demonstrate a compact highly-sensitive 140 GHz MIMO radar system for gesture recognition and non-contact monitoring.
Light-based experimental computer chip functions similarly to the brain
Light-based experimental computer chip functions similarly to the brain
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An international research team from the universities of Münster (Germany), Oxford and Exeter (both Great Britain) has succeeded in developing hardware that could pave the way for brain-like computers: The…
Spray-on plasmonics enable tunable colours at video rate
Spray-on plasmonics enable tunable colours at video rate
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A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have devised a novel way to leverage plasmonics for stable colours that can be electrically tuned across different wavelengths, at speed.
Plastic waveguides for AR
Plastic waveguides for AR
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Californian startup DigiLens has developed an AR eyeglasses-type demonstrator featuring what the company claims to be the world’s first plastic waveguide supporting full colour images.
140GHz radar leverages AI for intuitive user interfaces
140GHz radar leverages AI for intuitive user interfaces
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To be presented during FutureSummits 2019, imec has developed a compact highly-sensitive 140GHz MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radar system, which the research centre will demonstrate for gesture recognition.
Practical test proves advantages of platooning
Practical test proves advantages of platooning
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Journeys with digitally networked trucks on motorways are safe, function technically reliably and can be used well in the everyday life of a logistics company: These are the most important…
Anti-drone ‘bullet’ seeks, KOs enemy UAVs
Anti-drone ‘bullet’ seeks, KOs enemy UAVs
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Drone-oriented defense company AerialX (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) has created a drone "missile" solution designed to knock enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) out of the sky.
Battery test protocol review looks to standardisation
Battery test protocol review looks to standardisation
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Researchers in the UK and US are looking at the best way to standardised battery test protocols around the world. …
BluGlass’s RPCVD yields p-GaN microLED display prototype
BluGlass’s RPCVD yields p-GaN microLED display prototype
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Australian semiconductor technology developer, BluGlass Ltd together with its foundry customer, X-Celeprint, have prototyped high performance microLED displays using BluGlass’ Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD) p-GaN technology.
Refined virtual human models complement crash test dummies
Refined virtual human models complement crash test dummies
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To improve the safety of vehicle occupants, crash tests with dummies have been carried out for decades. Increasingly, such tests are being supplemented by simulations. In crash simulations, researchers at…
Designing efficient green and red InGaN LEDs
Designing efficient green and red InGaN LEDs
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Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, have devised a novel method to synthesize arrays of InGaN submicrometer platelets for InGaN LEDs by selective area metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy (MOVPE), whose indium content…
Wireless movement-tracking system promises health, behavioral insights
Wireless movement-tracking system promises health, behavioral insights
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Researchers at MIT (Cambridge, MA) have developed a system that uses radio-frequency (RF) signal reflections from human bodies to wirelessly monitor people's movement inside their homes to provide insight for…
TSMC preps for ‘chiplet’ style manufacturing in 2021
TSMC preps for ‘chiplet’ style manufacturing in 2021
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Leading foundry chipmaker TSMC has revealed that it expects to start 'chiplet' style production with its System-on-Integrated Circuit (SoIC) 3D packaging system in 2021.
X-Fab teams for first substrate analysis tool for high voltage designs
X-Fab teams for first substrate analysis tool for high voltage designs
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X-Fab has teamed up with Swiss EDA developer PN Solutions on a substrate coupling analysis tool that can find unwanted parasitic effects in high voltage mixed signal and power management…
Gilat demonstrates 5G over a LEO satellite
Gilat demonstrates 5G over a LEO satellite
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Test conducted by tier-1 European operator at the University of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre has demonstrated 5G backhaul over a LEO satellite.
GaN single chip integrates sensors for the first time
GaN single chip integrates sensors for the first time
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Researchers at Fraunhofer IAF in Germany have integrated current and temperature sensors with power transistors, flyback diodes and gate drivers on a single gallium nitride (GaN) chip.
Waterproof perovskite solar cell boosts hydrogen production
Waterproof perovskite solar cell boosts hydrogen production
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Researchers at the University of Bath in the UK are developing a lightweight perovskite solar cell that can be used underwater to produce hydrogen as a fuel.
Voltage-controlled topological spin switch needs no current
Voltage-controlled topological spin switch needs no current
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Researchers at New York University (Brooklyn, NY) say they have discovered a new method of controlling magnetic circuits using an energy efficient switch that doesn't require electric current, promising lower…
Everything on one chip: GaN Power IC integrates sensors for electromobility
Everything on one chip: GaN Power IC integrates sensors for electromobility
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A Fraunhofer research team has succeeded in significantly increasing the functionality of GaN Power ICs for voltage transformers: At Fraunhofer IAF, researchers integrated current and temperature sensors together with power…
Fiat picks Harman and Google for infotainment system
Fiat picks Harman and Google for infotainment system
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said it will use technologies from Samsung subsidiary Harman and Google for its Uconnect infotainment platform, available since 2003. With Google and Harman technology, FCA aims…
Logic switch uses no electric current for ultralow-energy computing
Logic switch uses no electric current for ultralow-energy computing
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Researchers at New York University (Brooklyn, NY) say they have discovered a new method of controlling magnetic circuits using an energy efficient switch that doesn't require electric current, promising lower…
Algorithm optimises film capacitor size in switching power supplies
Algorithm optimises film capacitor size in switching power supplies
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Researchers at the Light Technology Institute (LTI) at KIT in Germany have developed a digital control method that allows film capacitors, rather than electrolytic, to be used in switching power…
First defect-free AlN power wafer
First defect-free AlN power wafer
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HexaTech in the US has shown the first defect-free 2in diameter aluminum nitride (AlN) substrate for power devices.
ZAF claims breakthrough in cycle life performance for Nickel-Zinc battery
ZAF claims breakthrough in cycle life performance for Nickel-Zinc battery
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ZAF Energy Systems has developed a new electrode that could double the lifetime of its nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery technology in industrial applications.


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