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Spectrometer-on-a-chip slim enough for smartphones
Spectrometer-on-a-chip slim enough for smartphones
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About a year after it released its first commercial near infra-red (NIR) spectrometer, roughly the size of a card deck,…
Cracking an Android device’s Pattern Lock within 5 attempts
Cracking an Android device’s Pattern Lock within 5 attempts
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Security experts have reveled that the popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked…
Perovskite-based LEDs produced on the cheap
Perovskite-based LEDs produced on the cheap
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In a paper titled "Efficient perovskite light-emitting diodes featuring nanometre-sized crystallites" published in Nature Photonics, researchers from Princeton University reported…
Computing group lays out technology roadmap
Computing group lays out technology roadmap
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HiPEAC, the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, has produced its biennial technology roadmap that covers…

RF sensor startup teams with Switzerland’s CSEM
RF sensor startup teams with Switzerland’s CSEM
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Sensifree Ltd. (Cupertino, Calif.) a developer of an RF-based low power biomedical sensor, has formed a research partnership with the Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) research institute to…
3D printing arrives at micro optics
3D printing arrives at micro optics
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High design flexibility, fast design iterations and prototypes early in the design cycle, these are the promise of 3D printing for many industrial branches. But when it comes to the…
Gallium oxide boost for high voltage power
Gallium oxide boost for high voltage power
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A semiconductor material known as beta gallium oxide (Ga2O3) could be of benefit in high-voltage applications if its poor thermal properties can be overcome.
Gallium oxide offers promise for power electronics
Gallium oxide offers promise for power electronics
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A semiconductor material known as beta gallium oxide (Ga2O3) could be of benefit in high-voltage applications if its poor thermal properties can be overcome.
Startup offers carbon-on-Si wafers for RF
Startup offers carbon-on-Si wafers for RF
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Carbonics Inc. (Marina del Ray, Calif.), a startup founded in 2014, is offering first access to its carbon nanotube (CNT) technology in the form of carbon-on-silicon and carbon-on-quartz wafers that…
Nanoscale semiconductors promise to double solar cell efficiency
Nanoscale semiconductors promise to double solar cell efficiency
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Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have built nanostructures in silicon that could potentially double the efficiency of solar cells.
Fractal design of graphene photodetector holds promise for photoharvesting
Fractal design of graphene photodetector holds promise for photoharvesting
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Thanks to a novel gold fractal metasurface design, an international team of scientists from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) and the Technical University of Denmark (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) have managed…
Snowflake-shaped electrodes boost graphene’s photoabsorption
Snowflake-shaped electrodes boost graphene’s photoabsorption
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Thanks to a novel gold fractal metasurface design, an international team of scientists from Purdue University and the Technical University of Denmark have managed to tune graphene's natural wideband optical…
Embedded ADAS Algorithm Optimization with High-Performance DSP IP and CV Software Library
Embedded ADAS Algorithm Optimization with High-Performance DSP IP and CV Software Library
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Recently computer vision (CV) technology has seen a rapidly increasing rate of adoption in the application of autonomous driving. CV algorithms are very compute intensive. Deployment of these algorithms often…
Cellular LPWA for IoT demonstrated by Altair Semi, KDDI
Cellular LPWA for IoT demonstrated by Altair Semi, KDDI
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Altair Semiconductor (Hod HaSharon, Israel) has teamed up with Japan’s KDDI to demonstrate CAT-M (a.k.a. CAT-M1 or LTE-M), the new Release 13 in conjunction with ultra-low-power consumption, using LTE extended…
Nanostructures double solar cell efficiency to 40%
Nanostructures double solar cell efficiency to 40%
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Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have built nanostructures in silicon that could potentially double the efficiency of solar cells.
Wireless charging design contest
Wireless charging design contest
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The "Off The Clock Design Challenge” organized by Wurth Electronics Midcom entices participants to design a wireless charging end product using the new 15W wireless charging kit developed with ROHM…
Academic brings open-source machine vision to makers
Academic brings open-source machine vision to makers
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With his JeVois Kickstarter campaign, French academic Prof. Laurent Itti aims to support all those with an interest in machine vision, computational neuroscience, and machine learning.
Wireless charging design contest
Wireless charging design contest
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The "Off The Clock Design Challenge” organized by Wurth Electronics Midcom entices participants to design a wireless charging end product using the new 15W wireless charging kit developed with ROHM…
Memory compressor IP can save time, energy
Memory compressor IP can save time, energy
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ZeroPoint Technologies AB (Goteborg, Sweden) is developing a hardware-based approach to data compression called MaxiMem that could be useful for both servers and leaf node equipment.
Danish startup ramps up thermoelectrics
Danish startup ramps up thermoelectrics
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After years of product development in stealth mode, Danish startup TEGnology ApS is hoping to change ThermoElectric Generators (TEG) market dynamics, ramping up the production of energy harvesting modules by…
Reseachers suggest 4G infrastructure to cut vehicle accidents
Reseachers suggest 4G infrastructure to cut vehicle accidents
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Recent research suggests that a pre-existing 4G network infrastructure could help drivers make safe decisions in or near accidents.
Altair, KDDI demonstrate cellular LPWA for IoT
Altair, KDDI demonstrate cellular LPWA for IoT
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Altair Semiconductor has teamed up with Japan’s KDDI to demonstrate CAT-M (a.k.a. CAT-M1 or LTE-M), the new Release 13 in conjunction with ultra-low-power consumption, using LTE extended discontinuous reception (eDRX)…
French academic opens machine vision to makers
French academic opens machine vision to makers
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With his JeVois Kickstarter campaign, French academic Prof. Laurent Itti aims to support all those with an interest in machine vision, computational neuroscience, and machine learning.
1.8µm pitch overlay accuracy promises automated wafer-level 3D stacking
1.8µm pitch overlay accuracy promises automated wafer-level 3D stacking
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Research centre imec and wafer-bonding equipment provider EV Group have joined forces on wafer-to-wafer stacking for wafer-level 3D IC integration. Both companies are to announce excellent wafer-to-wafer overlay accuracy results…
Imec & EVG advance wafer/wafer bonding placement accuracy
Imec & EVG advance wafer/wafer bonding placement accuracy
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Belgian research centre imec, and Austrian wafer-bonding equipment maker EVG Group report they have demonstrated, for the first time 1.8µm pitch overlay accuracy for wafer bonding; this, the collaborators say,…
Airbus develops flying car, prototype is coming soon
Airbus develops flying car, prototype is coming soon
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As recently as past week, Volvo futurologist Aric Dromi predicted that before mankind will see completely autonomous vehicles driving around in cities, they will see flying cars. Now someone no…
Existing 4G infrastructure could cut vehicle accidents, say researchers
Existing 4G infrastructure could cut vehicle accidents, say researchers
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Recent research suggests that a pre-existing 4G network infrastructure could help drivers make safe decisions in or near accidents.
Liquid antennas for IoT, 5G to be developed
Liquid antennas for IoT, 5G to be developed
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Reseachers at the University of Liverpool have been awarded £578k funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop liquid antennas which have the potential to transform…


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