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Wearable ‘living sensors’ light up in contact with chemicals
Wearable ‘living sensors’ light up in contact with chemicals
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers from MIT (Cambridge, MA) combined the special properties of hydrogels (consisting of up to 95…
Building a Wireless Sensor Network with Thousands of Nodes
Building a Wireless Sensor Network with Thousands of Nodes
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A SmartMesh IP network consists of a highly scalable self-forming multi-hop mesh of nodes, known as motes, which collect and…
ST, Airbiquity demo automotive wireless software update
ST, Airbiquity demo automotive wireless software update
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The capability to upgrade the embedded software residing in cars over the vehicle’s wireless capability is getting started. At the…
Inkjet-printed stretchable IC promises inexpensive smart fabric
Inkjet-printed stretchable IC promises inexpensive smart fabric
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A team of researchers from the Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) and the Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) has…

Low-temp printed perovskite solar cell tops 20% efficiency
Low-temp printed perovskite solar cell tops 20% efficiency
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a technique for low-temperature printing of perovskite solar cells with high efficiency.
IoT power converter design maintains efficiency over vast current range
IoT power converter design maintains efficiency over vast current range
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Researchers from MIT's (Cambridge, MA) Microsystems Technologies Laboratories (MTL) have developed a power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 500 picoamps to 1 milliamp - a span…
Printed ICs that can flex and stretch
Printed ICs that can flex and stretch
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A team of researchers from the Michigan State University and the Florida State University has successfully demonstrated intrinsically stretchable thin-film transistors (TFTs) and integrated logic circuits, directly printed on elastomeric…
Printed perovskite solar cell tops 20% efficiency
Printed perovskite solar cell tops 20% efficiency
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a technique for low temperature printing of perovskite solar cells with high efficiency.
Step down converter targets the Internet of Things with 50% power reduction
Step down converter targets the Internet of Things with 50% power reduction
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Researchers from MIT's Microsystems Technologies Laboratories (MTL) have developed a power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 500 picoamps to 1 milliamp, a span that encompasses a…
Researchers’ layered material brings spintronics closer to reality
Researchers’ layered material brings spintronics closer to reality
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All of the electronics we know today depends on representing information in terms of electric charge, and manipulating it by transport of that charge. A team of scientists from Munich…
University circuit enables zero-power standby
University circuit enables zero-power standby
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Researchers at the Electrical Energy Management Group of the University of Bristol have developed a novel low-voltage comparator circuit that could be used to reduce to standby power to zero.
Atomic force microscope shrinks to chip size
Atomic force microscope shrinks to chip size
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By leveraging a readily available Silicon-On-Insulator MEMS manufacturing process (with the help of MEMS-foundry MEMSCAP), researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have designed the fully actuated probe stage…
Open-source ‘high-capacity network in a box’ for mobile, IoT
Open-source ‘high-capacity network in a box’ for mobile, IoT
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Following up their successful $1 million crowdfunding campaign for an open-source, 5G- and IoT-capable Software-Defined Radio (LimeSDR), Lime Microsystems (Guildford, UK) and Canonical announced a second round of crowdfunding for…
Commoditising 5G and IoT base stations through open-source
Commoditising 5G and IoT base stations through open-source
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Following up their successful $1million crowdfunding campaign for an open-source, 5G and IoT capable Software-Defined Radio (LimeSDR), Lime Microsystems and Canonical announced a second round of crowdfunding for SDR-based LimeNET.
Atomic force microscope on-a-chip
Atomic force microscope on-a-chip
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By leveraging a readily available Silicon-On-Insulator MEMS manufacturing process (with the help of MEMS-foundry MEMSCAP), researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have designed the fully actuated probe stage…
Lime Microsystems and Canonical’s LimeNET SDR crowdfunding
Lime Microsystems and Canonical’s LimeNET SDR crowdfunding
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The software-defined-radio (SDR) silicon company, and the commercial face of Ubuntu, have jointly announced a second round to follow the initial $1million crowdfunding campaign for open-source, 5G and IoT capable…
CAD/CAM-software enables browser-hosted PCB design optimization
CAD/CAM-software enables browser-hosted PCB design optimization
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EasyLogix (Regensburg, Germany), developer of software for circuit board design and PCB quality assurance, has released PCB-Investigator version 8.0. The upgraded version of the CAD/ CAM software developed for review…
Emulation system reaches 15 billion gate capacity
Emulation system reaches 15 billion gate capacity
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Mentor Graphics' Veloce Strato emulation platform is Mentor’s third generation “data-centre friendly” emulation platform, presented as the only emulation platform with full scalability across both software and hardware. As part…
Living sensor lights up upon pathogen exposure
Living sensor lights up upon pathogen exposure
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers from MIT combined the special properties of hydrogels (consisting of up to 95 percent water) with genetically modified living cells programmed to light up in…
US army fires sensor bullets, MEMS missiles
US army fires sensor bullets, MEMS missiles
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The US army is adopting MEMS and sensors to improve intelligence gathering and munitions operation, including sensors as bullets and MEMS for fuzing munitions and guided projectiles.
Toshiba claims most efficient ADC
Toshiba claims most efficient ADC
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The 12bit resolution ADC is suitable for next-generation wireless LANs while the circuits power efficiency is the world’s highest, three times that of current ADCs, Toshiba claimed. The company has…
University circuit enables zero-power standby
University circuit enables zero-power standby
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Researchers at the Electrical Energy Management Group of the University of Bristol have developed a novel low-voltage comparator circuit that could be used to reduce to standby power to zero.
Massive MIMO LTE commercial trials show up to 5x throughput
Massive MIMO LTE commercial trials show up to 5x throughput
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Fabless chip company Blue Danube Systems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) has completed trials of its massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in licensed FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) LTE spectrum with Shenandoah…
Smart Living systems put through the acid test – via cloud service
Smart Living systems put through the acid test – via cloud service
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Developers and vendors of smart living equipment can now have their products tested according to the latest requirements: The VDE Test and Certifying Institute has developed Testsuite 2.0, a cloud-based…
Compressible supercap uses green tea polyphenols
Compressible supercap uses green tea polyphenols
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A compact, flexible supercapacitor has been developed by researchers in India using chemicals derived from green tea.
LTE with “massive MIMO” shows 5x throughput
LTE with “massive MIMO” shows 5x throughput
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Fabless chip company Blue Danube Systems Inc. has completed trials of its Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in licensed FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) LTE spectrum with Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. (Shentel)…
Flexible supercapacitor uses green tea polyphenols
Flexible supercapacitor uses green tea polyphenols
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A compact, flexible supercapacitor has been developed by researchers in India using chemicals derived from green tea.
Virtual thermal prototyping on a web-based platform
Virtual thermal prototyping on a web-based platform
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Belgian startup Diabatix is offering access to efficient thermal design through its web-based solution platform. The solution as a service makes thermal know-how accessible to any engineer. It guides them…


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