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Paper-thin LEDs for ultra high definition displays
Paper-thin LEDs for ultra high definition displays
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Chemical engineers from ETH Zurich have produced what they believe to be the purest green with an ultra-slim, bendable light-emitting…
Salt water-based Li-ion battery offers both high energy, safety
Salt water-based Li-ion battery offers both high energy, safety
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Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, MD) and the University of Maryland (College Park, MD) have developed a…
Drug delivering micro ‘robots’ treat stomach infections
Drug delivering micro ‘robots’ treat stomach infections
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego (San Diego, CA) have demonstrated the first use of drug-delivering micromotors for…
Swiss researchers design ultra-pure green paper-thin LEDs
Swiss researchers design ultra-pure green paper-thin LEDs
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Chemical engineers from ETH Zurich have produced what they believe to be the purest green with an ultra-slim, bendable light-emitting…

3D printer outputs stretchable soft circuits hybridized with SMT parts
3D printer outputs stretchable soft circuits hybridized with SMT parts
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Although they can be made thin, flexible and stretchable, the organic materials used for printed electronics can't compete with the processing power provided by hard silicon chips, which somewhat frustrates…
Intel tools front-end FPGA accelerator programming for software teams
Intel tools front-end FPGA accelerator programming for software teams
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Intel, in support of the FPGA product line it acquired with Altera, has posted details of a set of software tools that promise to make FPGA programming accessible to mainstream…
Swiss researchers make magnetic RAM a realistic perspective
Swiss researchers make magnetic RAM a realistic perspective
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So far, magnetic data storage was considered too slow for the production of computer memory. Researchers from the ETH Zurich university have now investigated a method that allows magnetic writing…
IMEC reports low-power IP blocks for 5G
IMEC reports low-power IP blocks for 5G
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Nanoelectronics research institute IMEC has developed two building blocks for 5G applications with record-setting low power consumption.
Gold nanomesh enables ultra-breathable skin electronics
Gold nanomesh enables ultra-breathable skin electronics
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While numerous electronic skins have been reported in literature, all aimed at creating highly flexible wearable electronics, most of them rely on thin but impermeable substrates such as biocompatible silicone…
Salt water makes lithium batteries safe
Salt water makes lithium batteries safe
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Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed a lithium-ion battery that uses salt water as its electrolyte and provides 4.0 V for electronic…
Imec reports leading-edge ADC, RF-FE, low-power IP blocks for 5G comms
Imec reports leading-edge ADC, RF-FE, low-power IP blocks for 5G comms
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Belgium-based nano-electronics and digital technology research body imec has disclosed details of two key building blocks for future 5G applications featuring record low power consumption; an ADC and a 60-GHz…
Lab-as-a-Service: An essential tool for NFV
Lab-as-a-Service: An essential tool for NFV
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Network function virtualisation (NFV) is widely considered to be the biggest game changer in the telecoms industry. Service providers are embracing NFV to enable speed and agility, and roll out…
Over-the-air BLE test systems solve wireless quality issues
Over-the-air BLE test systems solve wireless quality issues
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Bluetooth Low Energy - BLE - performance can be difficult to verify due to packaging, but novel OTA measurement methods can overcome those problems, especially when it comes to packet…
Full colour video-capable electrophoretic displays go East
Full colour video-capable electrophoretic displays go East
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Californian startup CLEARink Displays just announced it has closed USD5 million in Series C funding with lead investor being Vestech International, an investment fund backed by a number of Asian display…
Fingerprint sensor based on piezo-nanowires
Fingerprint sensor based on piezo-nanowires
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As promised, the European R&D project known as PiezoMAT has developed a pressure-based fingerprint sensor that enables resolution above 1,000 dots per inch, more than twice that required by the…
Hackers target power grids
Hackers target power grids
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Power grids in Europe and the US are being being targeted by a new wave of cyber attacks…
Dragonfly hackers target power grids
Dragonfly hackers target power grids
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Power grids in Europe and the US are being being targeted by a new wave of cyber attacks…
Lightweight chassis changes battery pack design for electric vehicles
Lightweight chassis changes battery pack design for electric vehicles
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A new concept design for an integrated lightweight chassis by Williams Advanced Engineering in the UK could significantly change the way battery packs are designed for electric vehicles.
New material promises breakthrough for solid state lithium batteries
New material promises breakthrough for solid state lithium batteries
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Researchers in Poland and Switzerland have found a promising new candidate for a solid-state electrolyte in lithium batteries.
Virtualised ECUs with Renesas R-Car: new challenges and opportunities
Virtualised ECUs with Renesas R-Car: new challenges and opportunities
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There is an amazing number of ideas shaping the future of the automotive industry. Powertrain electrification, autonomous driving, cars with “always on” connection to the cloud, passengers enjoying their digital…
Virtualised ECUs with Renesas R-Car: new challenges and opportunities
Virtualised ECUs with Renesas R-Car: new challenges and opportunities
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There is an amazing number of ideas shaping the future of the automotive industry. Powertrain electrification, autonomous driving, cars with “always on” connection to the cloud, passengers enjoying their digital…
Two test vehicles planned for SiO2 ReRAM
Two test vehicles planned for SiO2 ReRAM
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Weebit Nano has two test vehicles planned to show off its silicon-dioxide based non-volatile memory technology; a Kbit array built in a 0.3-micron process and a working memory cell in…
Light-bending metasurfaces open new opportunities in advanced imaging, display
Light-bending metasurfaces open new opportunities in advanced imaging, display
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Researchers at mixed-reality startup Magic Leap (Plantation, FL) and Berkeley Lab have developed new ways to control and enhance the light-bending properties of synthetic optical nanostructures, not unlike those of…
Mobile AI processor announced by Huawei
Mobile AI processor announced by Huawei
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At IFA 2017, the CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group Richard Yu revealed the company's vision for the future of artificial intelligence in smartphones, combining the power of the cloud…
Ultra-high-resolution fingerprint sensors use piezoelectric nanowires
Ultra-high-resolution fingerprint sensors use piezoelectric nanowires
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Kicked-off back in 2013, European R&D project PiezoMAT focused on the use of matrices of vertically grown piezoelectric nanowires to fabricate ultra-high resolution pressure-based fingerprint sensors.
New material for solid-state lithium batteries holds promise
New material for solid-state lithium batteries holds promise
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Researchers in Poland and Switzerland have found a promising new candidate for a solid-state electrolyte in lithium batteries.
Wireless IoT security company demos quantum-resistant signature scheme
Wireless IoT security company demos quantum-resistant signature scheme
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SecureRF Corporation (Shelton, CT) is showcasing its quantum-resistant security tools for the Internet of Things (IoT), which are basically authentication and data protection products for low-resource processors and embedded devices.
More energy-efficient memory architectures emerge from data centre research
More energy-efficient memory architectures emerge from data centre research
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Data centres have largely transitioned to flash memory for bulk data storage; a team of researchers at MIT have proposed a relatively small refinement to the way data is retrieved…


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