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Smart bullets, MEMS missiles part of U.S. Army’s Component Miniaturization Initiative
Smart bullets, MEMS missiles part of U.S. Army’s Component Miniaturization Initiative
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The US Army is adopting MEMS and sensors to improve intelligence gathering and munitions operation, including sensors as bullets and…
Power grid ‘health’ monitoring needed for cybersecurity, say researchers
Power grid ‘health’ monitoring needed for cybersecurity, say researchers
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Researchers at Michigan Technical University (Houghton, MI) in the US are calling for standard metrics to measure the health of…
Light-detecting LEDs promise interactive, energy harvesting displays
Light-detecting LEDs promise interactive, energy harvesting displays
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An international team of researchers from the US and South Korea have reported a novel type of nanoLEDs with unprecedented…
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…

More on PUF-security through software only, from Intrinsic ID
More on PUF-security through software only, from Intrinsic ID
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Last week, we posted news from security and key-management technology provider Intrinsic ID that the company can now provide its unique-to-every-chip physically unclonable function or PUF, on any SoC using…
Light-responsive LEDs could re-invent displays
Light-responsive LEDs could re-invent displays
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An international team of researchers from the US and South Korea reported a novel type of nanoLEDs with unprecedented brightness levels (in excess of 80,000 cd/m2) and capable of operating…
Research shows way to the high power electronic DC circuit breaker
Research shows way to the high power electronic DC circuit breaker
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It has long been proposed that high-voltage DC transmission and distribution could offer significant efficiency gains over today's use of AC. A major barrier to the adoption of such a…
Researchers call for ‘healthcheck’ metrics to protect the smart grid
Researchers call for ‘healthcheck’ metrics to protect the smart grid
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Researchers at Michigan Technical University (MTU) in the US are calling for standard metrics to measure the health of smart grid power networks in a bid to improve cybersecurity.
Researchers look at aluminum to replace lithium in batteries
Researchers look at aluminum to replace lithium in batteries
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Researchers in Germany searching for an alternative to lithium for energy storage systems have identified aluminium ion as a promising alternative.
New long-lasting flow battery could run for a decade or more
New long-lasting flow battery could run for a decade or more
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Researchers at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) have developed a low-cost flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water that could run for a decade or…
High-res micro-LED arrays show promise for augmented reality, head-up displays
High-res micro-LED arrays show promise for augmented reality, head-up displays
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Researchers from Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, have developed a self-aligning μLED fabrication process that supports the creation of high-resolution arrays of μLED at 10-micron pitch (roughly equating…
Researchers tackle aluminum to replace lithium in batteries
Researchers tackle aluminum to replace lithium in batteries
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Renewable energies and electromobility stimulate the global demand of energy storage systems. Since however the availability of lithium for the prevailing lithium ion batteries is limited and the material is…
Wafer-level micro-LED matrix delivers high brightness at 2540dpi
Wafer-level micro-LED matrix delivers high brightness at 2540dpi
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Researchers from Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, have developed a self-aligning μLED fabrication process that supports the creation of high-resolution arrays of μLED at 10-micron pitch (roughly equating…
Flow battery could run for a decade
Flow battery could run for a decade
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Researchers at Harvard have developed a low cost flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water that could run for a decade without maintenance.
Meta-lenses bring benchtop performance to hand-held spectrometers
Meta-lenses bring benchtop performance to hand-held spectrometers
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Researchers from Harvard University have used nano-lenses to develop new hand-held spectrometers capable of the same performance as large benchtop instruments.
Free and open code for smart home platform, as a Ubuntu snap
Free and open code for smart home platform, as a Ubuntu snap
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Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a completely free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT…
Free open smart home platform eases IoT setups
Free open smart home platform eases IoT setups
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Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems joined forces to launch snap packaging openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT setups.
Ultra-low power switch slashes standby power
Ultra-low power switch slashes standby power
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed an ultra-low power switch that operates from a few picowatts, allowing sensors to save power and cut standby power to zero.
Image sensor inventors win £1 million prize
Image sensor inventors win £1 million prize
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Four engineers who between them made a series of innovations that enabled the development of the modern CMOS image sensor have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering.
Picowatt voltage detector enables zero-power sensing
Picowatt voltage detector enables zero-power sensing
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Engineers from the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK) have developed a low-cost voltage detector chip that enables batteries in sensors to last longer, in some cases by over ten times.
Flexible solid-state Li-ion battery is goal of 15-month collaborative project
Flexible solid-state Li-ion battery is goal of 15-month collaborative project
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A $1.5m collaborative project is set to develop and produce a flexible, solid-state lithium battery that is just 0.25mm thick by integrating an ultra-thin flexible ceramic substrate.
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…
Emission-layer-free OLED promises better efficiency
Emission-layer-free OLED promises better efficiency
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Researchers from the South China University of Technology have devised a high efficiency OLED based on a direct p–n junction rather than sandwiching an emission layer between a p-type hole-transport…
Current sharing technology boosts motor control reliability
Current sharing technology boosts motor control reliability
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A motor control company in Devon, UK, has developed a new way to share current in motors that lowers costs and boosts reliability.
Leakage-free germanium nanowire transistor beats silicon
Leakage-free germanium nanowire transistor beats silicon
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With its high electron mobility, germanium is a tantalizing material to work with. But due to its low band-gap energy (0.66 eV), so far the development of germanium-based devices has…
Improving on LEDs: Osram launches FLINGO project
Improving on LEDs: Osram launches FLINGO project
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Together with four partners from industry and academia, Osram Opto Semiconductors is coordinating an R&D project aimed to improve the electrical, optical and thermal functionality of LEDs through the design…
PUF-security now possible through software only, says Intrinsic ID
PUF-security now possible through software only, says Intrinsic ID
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Intrinsic ID is a Sunnyvale, California based company that provides security and key management functionality for SoC designs, using the principle of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) that are unique ot…
NFC tag on plastic promises item-level ID and smart paper
NFC tag on plastic promises item-level ID and smart paper
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Describing their work as an innovative tag that is the thinnest and mechanically most robust technology compatible to ISO protocols, at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco,…


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