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Researchers find large piezoelectric effect in organic crystal
Researchers find large piezoelectric effect in organic crystal
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Researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland have discovered an organic compound that generates electricity when tapped or…
Audi demos all-round orientation via AI
Audi demos all-round orientation via AI
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At the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), one of the world's most prestigious AI conferences, Audi will be…
The hyPowerRange project runs at 400 volts
The hyPowerRange project runs at 400 volts
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Driving range, costs and performance of electric vehicles - all this must be improved if electric mobility is to establish…
Battery-less sensor supports LPWA wireless communications
Battery-less sensor supports LPWA wireless communications
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Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a 82- x 24- x 6-mm sensor that can transmit on-site temperature and humidity data, once…

SOI wafers optimized for NIR, 3D imaging
SOI wafers optimized for NIR, 3D imaging
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Soitec SA (Bernin, France) has available a new generation of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates for image sensors.
Researchers design fast white light from hybridized inorganic/organic LED
Researchers design fast white light from hybridized inorganic/organic LED
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While today's most common approach to creating white light is to cap blue- or ultraviolet-emitting LEDs with down-conversion yellow phosphor materials, such white lights suffer from several inherent limitations, including…
Traction battery concept makes electronic intermediate converter redundant
Traction battery concept makes electronic intermediate converter redundant
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Driving range, costs and performance of electric vehicles - all this must be improved if electric mobility is to establish itself on the market. In the hyPowerRange development project, companies…
Rohm provides SiC modules for Formula E team
Rohm provides SiC modules for Formula E team
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Rohm is to supply full silicon carbide (SiC) power modules to the Venturi Formula E electric car racing team.
Hydrogen from sunlight emerges as green energy source
Hydrogen from sunlight emerges as green energy source
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A group of European research partners has developed the largest solar chemical plant for hydrogen production to date. This should enable commercial energy generation in about ten years' time.
Micro displays enable lightweight VR headsets
Micro displays enable lightweight VR headsets
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VR glasses are typically heavy and clumsy. Large-surface microdisplays will eventually change this: They enable ergonomic and lightweight VR glasses. Prototypes of such OLED displays now achieve very high clock…
Smart window doubles as solar panel
Smart window doubles as solar panel
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Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO) have demonstrated a prototype of a solar powered smart window that combines the benefits of smart windows with energy conversion.
AC and PoE LED lamps integrated into Gooee IoT analytics platform
AC and PoE LED lamps integrated into Gooee IoT analytics platform
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PoE-connected LED lamps provider Deltavation has partnered with IoT analytics platform provider Gooee to integrate its LED lamp-based linear, lighting, sensing and control systems into the IoT platform.
Deltavation to integrate its AC and PoE based lamps into the Gooee platform
Deltavation to integrate its AC and PoE based lamps into the Gooee platform
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PoE-connected LED lamps provider Deltavation has partnered with IoT analytics platform provider Gooee to integrate its LED lamp-based linear, lighting, sensing and control systems into the IoT platform.
WUXGA OLED microdisplay promises lightweight and compact VR glasses
WUXGA OLED microdisplay promises lightweight and compact VR glasses
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As part of the EU’s LOMID project (Large OLED MicroDisplays) that Fraunhofer FEP is coordinating, the research centre has developed OLED microdisplays that significantly outperform others currently on the market.
Webinar; The impact of AI on autonomous vehicles
Webinar; The impact of AI on autonomous vehicles
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This webinar, scheduled for Thursday, December 14, 2017, and presented by Synopsys and analysts IHS Markit, will discuss why and how automotive OEMs and chip designers should leverage AI, deep…
Measuring battery status with ultrasound: cheaper, more reliable than BMS
Measuring battery status with ultrasound: cheaper, more reliable than BMS
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To determine the durability and health status of a battery as well as the resulting driving range of the vehicle, complex battery management systems (BMS) are in use. Such systems…
Alloying boron to InGaN: a promising route to high-efficiency visible LEDs
Alloying boron to InGaN: a promising route to high-efficiency visible LEDs
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Trying to circumvent the inherent efficiency limitations of narrow InGaN quantum well emitters (due to Auger recombinations at high current) as they are imperfectly grown on GaN (because of lattice…
Disposable LoRa-enabled nano-tags developed for the IoT
Disposable LoRa-enabled nano-tags developed for the IoT
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Semtech (Camarillo, CA) is using ultrathin printed batteries to enable a new generation of low cost disposable nanotags for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Optoelectronics origami yields image sensors that mimic biological eye
Optoelectronics origami yields image sensors that mimic biological eye
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Today's planar digital image sensors simply inherit their form factor from the substrates and semiconductor processes used in their volume manufacture. But more and more research groups are pursuing the…
EtherCAT opens to heterogeneous networks with TSN features
EtherCAT opens to heterogeneous networks with TSN features
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The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) announced it has supplemented EtherCAT with Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) technologies, expanding the field of possible EtherCAT applications to include heterogeneous network environments.
Origami technique turns flat optical sensors into hemispherical eyes
Origami technique turns flat optical sensors into hemispherical eyes
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Today's planar digital image sensors simply inherit their form factor from the substrates and semiconductor processes used in their volume manufacture. But more and more research groups are pursuing the…
Ericsson opens 5G campus in Belgium
Ericsson opens 5G campus in Belgium
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Ericsson and Corda Campus are launching the first 5G Life Campus in Hasselt, Belgium to test 5G technologies across a range of innovative applications.
How your car can check your daily health
How your car can check your daily health
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Imec researches capacitive, optical and radar technology to integrate in the user’s environment and in this way monitor – unnoticeable – his health.
Samsung Foundry begins production of second 10nm process
Samsung Foundry begins production of second 10nm process
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Samsung Foundry has started mass production of systems-on-chip (SoC) products built on its second generation 10nm FinFET process, called 10LPP (low power plus).
Printable nanotube motion sensors promise more affordable wearables
Printable nanotube motion sensors promise more affordable wearables
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Researchers at Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) have developed a class of motion sensors made using buckypaper — thin, flexible sheets of carbon nanotubes - that they say promise ubiquitous,…
Startup plans 4k RISC-V cores on 7nm chip
Startup plans 4k RISC-V cores on 7nm chip
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Esperanto Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), a 2014 startup founded by chip industry veteran Dave Ditzel, has made its first public statements about its technology.
Webinar: Industrial PFC with silicon carbide MOSFETs – 30th Nov.
Webinar: Industrial PFC with silicon carbide MOSFETs – 30th Nov.
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Wolfspeed – a Cree company – is to present a webinar entitled “A Cost-effective, Highly Efficient Three-Phase AC/DC Power System For Industrial PFC Applications”, on 30th November 2017.
PCI Express 5.0 verification IP, by Cadence
PCI Express 5.0 verification IP, by Cadence
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Cadence Design Systems has released Verification IP (VIP), which it believes to be the first available, in support of the new PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 architecture. With Cadence’s TripleCheck technology…


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