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Breakthrough for magnesium batteries
Breakthrough for magnesium batteries
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Researchers at the University of Houston have found a way to make magnesium batteries that are intrinsically safer and twice…
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
UK to start trial of driverless trucks on public roads
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A commercial trial of platoons of driverless trucks is to start in the UK later this year.
Researcher use precision shunt-based current measurement for battery management
Researcher use precision shunt-based current measurement for battery management
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) (Erlangen, Germany) is using Isabellenhütte’s IVT-S shunt-based management system for…
Chip-scale laser structure nearly doubles terahertz output power
Chip-scale laser structure nearly doubles terahertz output power
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Terahertz (sub-millimeter) waves—wavelengths of 1 mm down to 30 µm, corresponding to frequencies from 300 GHz to 3 THz (1…

LG Electronics demonstrates OLED tail light
LG Electronics demonstrates OLED tail light
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In a short video, flexible OLED display manufacturer LG Electronics showcases an automotive tail light demonstrator, based on a series of flexible OLED lighting panels.
KAIST demonstrates fabric-based OLEDs for wearables
KAIST demonstrates fabric-based OLEDs for wearables
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Moving away from the integration of LEDs into relatively stiff silicone or flexible plastic substrates, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have managed to design…
Microsoft Project Brainwave tackles cloud-based real-time AI
Microsoft Project Brainwave tackles cloud-based real-time AI
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Microsoft (Redmond, WA) has unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform called Project Brainwave that the company says achieves "a major leap forward" in cloud-based serving of deep learning models.
Water-soluble e-inks promise safer printed electronics
Water-soluble e-inks promise safer printed electronics
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Led by John Reynolds, professor in Georgia Tech’s Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Material Science and Engineering, a team of multidisciplinary researchers has come up with a novel way to design water-soluble organic…
“Superballistic” electron flow verified, in graphene structures
“Superballistic” electron flow verified, in graphene structures
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics, researchers at the University of Manchester, UK, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have reported physical verification of a theoretical…
Making electronics safer to print
Making electronics safer to print
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Led by John Reynolds, professor in Georgia Tech’s Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Material Science and Engineering, a team of multidisciplinary researchers has come up with a novel way to design water-soluble organic…
AUTOSAR runtime environment certified to ASIL D, ISO 26262
AUTOSAR runtime environment certified to ASIL D, ISO 26262
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The AUTOSAR Runtime Environment (RTE) from Vector Informatik (Stuttgart, Germany) fulfils the requirements of ISO 26262 up to ASIL D. exida – an internationally recognized specialist in functional safety –…
Polystyrene microgel cuts cost of perovskite solar cells
Polystyrene microgel cuts cost of perovskite solar cells
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Researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK are using polystyrene particles in a microgel rather than expensive polymers to dramatically reduce the cost of the next generation of…
German researchers show kinetic energy harvesting systems for wearables
German researchers show kinetic energy harvesting systems for wearables
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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are demonstrating two prototypes in Kazakhstan that harvest energy from movement to power wearable devices.
Transparent solar panels in sun roof extend range for electric cars
Transparent solar panels in sun roof extend range for electric cars
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Audi has teamed with Alta Devices, a subsidiary of the Chinese solar cell specialist Hanergy, to develop transparent thin-film solar cells that can be embedded in a glass sunroof.
International partnership to build most advanced space weather radar in the Arctic
International partnership to build most advanced space weather radar in the Arctic
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An international partnership including the UK, thanks to new investment, in the region of £4 to £6m from NERC will build the most advanced space weather radar in the world…
Startup looks to IoT building blocks to shrink wearable technology
Startup looks to IoT building blocks to shrink wearable technology
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Silicon interposer technology allows multiple die to be combined onto a single chip. This is different from stack or multi-die chips that use wires to connect to a substrate. Essentially,…
These devices power wearables through body movement
These devices power wearables through body movement
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Smartphones, sports electronics such as heart rate monitors or tracker, medical devices such as blood pressure monitors, cardiac pacemakers or insulin pumps: a growing number of electronic companions make our…
Audi embeds solar cells into sunroofs to extend EV driving range
Audi embeds solar cells into sunroofs to extend EV driving range
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Audi and Alta Devices, a subsidiary of the Chinese solar cell specialist Hanergy, are together developing a new form of range extender for electric vehicles: Thin-film solar cells, embedded in…
micro LED diffuser eliminates the screen door effect
micro LED diffuser eliminates the screen door effect
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Remarkably small, bright and energy efficient, Micro LEDs (mLEDs) are ideal for smaller displays such as smart watches, cellphones and tablets. However, engineers face a number of challenges when designing…
Power management is key to 10nm 48 core ARM server chip
Power management is key to 10nm 48 core ARM server chip
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Power management has been a key design consideration for the industry's first 10nm 48 core ARM server chip developed by Qualcomm.
2017 Silicon Valley Flash Memory Summit Survives the Fire
2017 Silicon Valley Flash Memory Summit Survives the Fire
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Reporting from this year’s Flash Memory Summit, William Wong laments the fact that the exhibition portion of the event was a casualty of a show-floor fire, “Evidently, plugging the electronics…
Intel FPGAs underpin Microsoft’s ‘Brainwave’ deep learning projection
Intel FPGAs underpin Microsoft’s ‘Brainwave’ deep learning projection
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Microsoft has provided an insight into its use of Intel (formerly Altera) programmable logic in its cloud service infrastructure to run complex deep learning models, which enable applications ranging from…
Chinese researchers turn steel yarn into batteries
Chinese researchers turn steel yarn into batteries
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Removing the need for rigid and cumbersome batteries, a team of Chinese researchers has designed a rechargeable and flexible yarn-based battery that could be produced at scale on existing industrial…
Embedded in-chip monitoring ready for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET process
Embedded in-chip monitoring ready for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET process
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Moortec Semiconductor announced that its embedded in-chip monitoring subsystem can now be integrated on TSMC’s 7nm FinFET (FF) process. Within the subsystem the new 7nm Temperature Sensor is a high…
OLED light therapy R&D centre opens in South Korea
OLED light therapy R&D centre opens in South Korea
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Teaming up with government research units, the South Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is to set up a human body adhesion light treatment engineering centre to research and…
Yarn-based batteries promise power sources for next-gen wearables
Yarn-based batteries promise power sources for next-gen wearables
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Removing the need for rigid and cumbersome batteries, a team of Chinese researchers has designed a rechargeable and flexible yarn-based battery that could be produced at scale on existing industrial…
IoT building block startup looks to shrink wearable tech
IoT building block startup looks to shrink wearable tech
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Silicon interposer technology allows multiple die to be combined onto a single chip. This is different from stack or multi-die chips that use wires to connect to a substrate. Essentially,…
Electronic ‘skin’ tracks health data
Electronic ‘skin’ tracks health data
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A soft, stick-on patch, that is an electronic skin microsystem, tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data, and wirelessly transmits it to a smartphone.


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