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Linear Tech demos wireless battery management in BMW i3 ‘concept car’
Linear Tech demos wireless battery management in BMW i3 ‘concept car’
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At the electronica 2016 exhibition, Linear Technology (Milpitas, CA) featured a BMW i3 'concept car' in which the internal communications…
Linear Technology demos wireless battery management in electric vehicle
Linear Technology demos wireless battery management in electric vehicle
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At the electronica 2016 exhibition, Linear Technology featured a BMW i3 'concept car' in which the internal communications between battery…
High efficiency perovskite solar cells head for roll-to-roll manufacturing
High efficiency perovskite solar cells head for roll-to-roll manufacturing
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Researchers in the US have developed a flexible perovskite solar cell that hits a peak conversion efficiency of 26% and…
Perovskite solar cell breakthrough sets new efficiency record
Perovskite solar cell breakthrough sets new efficiency record
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Researchers in Berkeley, CA have developed a flexible perovskite solar cell that hits a peak conversion efficiency of 26% and…

High efficiency perovskite solar cells head for roll-to-roll manufacturing
High efficiency perovskite solar cells head for roll-to-roll manufacturing
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Researchers in the US have developed a flexible perovskite solar cell that hits a peak conversion efficiency of 26% and could be manufactured using a low cost roll-to-roll process.
Testing remote keyless entry systems for vehicles, by Rohde & Schwarz
Testing remote keyless entry systems for vehicles, by Rohde & Schwarz
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At electronica 2016 (stand 307 in hall A1 of the Munich exhibition complex), Rohde & Schwarz is presenting a universal solution for testing vehicle keys and the associated electronic control…
Drone-captured 3D maps promise improved wireless networks
Drone-captured 3D maps promise improved wireless networks
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Researcher Vasilii Semkin along with a research group at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland) have recently tested in their research work how aerial photographs…
Disney VR app adds customized haptic effects to video playback
Disney VR app adds customized haptic effects to video playback
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Disney Research (Glendale, CA) has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application that enables users to enhance their experience by adding customized haptic effects that can be triggered by user movements,…
Laser prototype advances LIDAR for autonomous driving
Laser prototype advances LIDAR for autonomous driving
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At electronica 2016 Osram Opto Semiconductors (Regensburg, Germany) is showcasing a four-channel laser that takes LIDAR systems (Light Detection and Ranging) for autonomous or semi-autonomous driving a step closer.
Quantum dot displays move closer to reality
Quantum dot displays move closer to reality
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Tackling the issues around high-resolution and large-scale patterning of quantum dots for display applications, a team of South Korean researchers has devised a new patterning process using modified quantum dots.
Virtual reality app enables customized haptic effects
Virtual reality app enables customized haptic effects
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Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application that enables users to enhance their experience by adding customized haptic effects that can be triggered by user movements, biofeedback or…
Drones to help in designing future wireless networks
Drones to help in designing future wireless networks
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Researcher Vasilii Semkin together with a research group at Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology has recently tested in their research work how aerial photographs taken using a so-called…
LED strings driven by current source/mirror
LED strings driven by current source/mirror
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The Design Idea in Figure 1 is a precision current mirror used to drive two strings of five white LEDs.
Quad-channel laser aimed at scanning LIDARs
Quad-channel laser aimed at scanning LIDARs
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At electronica 2016 Osram Opto Semiconductors is showcasing a four-channel laser that takes LIDAR systems (Light Detection and Ranging) for autonomous or semi-autonomous driving a step closer.
Quad-channel laser in scanning LIDAR prototype
Quad-channel laser in scanning LIDAR prototype
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At electronica 2016 Osram Opto Semiconductors is showcasing a four-channel laser that takes LIDAR systems (Light Detection and Ranging) for autonomous or semi-autonomous driving a step closer.
Lithography-ready quantum dots
Lithography-ready quantum dots
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Tackling the issues around high-resolution and large-scale patterning of quantum dots for display applications, a team of South Korean researchers has devised a new patterning process using modified quantum dots.
Near-eye OLED display refreshes only active pixels to cut power
Near-eye OLED display refreshes only active pixels to cut power
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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) in Dresden, Germany, have developed a near-eye OLED display for head-mount wearables that can drastically reduce…
Medical marijuana grows well under LED lighting
Medical marijuana grows well under LED lighting
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A study conducted by Wageningen University & Research Center (Wageningen, Netherlands) found that some varieties of cannabis produce more medicinally active substances when grown under LEDs. It also found that…
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
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Fabless chip company GreenWaves Technologies SAS (Villard-Bonnot, France) is getting close to taping out its GAP8 multicore processor, which it describes as being the industry’s first processor purpose-designed for IoT.
Violet LEDs power Japan’s first full-color facade lighting system
Violet LEDs power Japan’s first full-color facade lighting system
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New Kyoto Building of Wacoal Holdings Corp., Japan’s leading creator of intimate apparel for women, is leveraging a full facade lighting system based on Kyocera's violet LEDs (combined with RGB…
Anticipating a more virtual Moore’s law
Anticipating a more virtual Moore’s law
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Nicky Lu, executive director of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, is looking forward to the coming era of a “virtual” Moore’s Law, leading to a resumption of growth and profitability…
Terabit uplink to satellite uses laser light
Terabit uplink to satellite uses laser light
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Scientists from the German aerospace research center DLR have achieved a data transmission rate of 1.72 Terabit per second over a distance of more than 10 kilometers of open space.
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
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Fabless chip company GreenWaves Technologies SAS (Villard-Bonnot, France) is getting close to taping out its GAP8 multicore processor, which it describes as being the industry’s first processor purpose-designed for IoT.
Individually-addressable pixels for ultra-low power MicroOLED
Individually-addressable pixels for ultra-low power MicroOLED
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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) in Dresden have developed a near-eye OLED display for head-mount wearables that can drastically reduce overall…
MicroOLED only drives the pixels that need a refresh
MicroOLED only drives the pixels that need a refresh
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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) in Dresden have developed a near-eye OLED display for head-mount wearables that can drastically reduce overall…
Full-colour facade lighting hits Japan based on violet LEDs
Full-colour facade lighting hits Japan based on violet LEDs
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New Kyoto Building of Wacoal Holdings Corp., Japan’s leading creator of intimate apparel for women, is leveraging a full facade lighting system based on Kyocera's violet LEDs (combined with RGB…
Designing a 60V Buck-Boost LED driver with up to 98% efficiency
Designing a 60V Buck-Boost LED driver with up to 98% efficiency
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Synchronous buck-boost converters with four power switches can deliver very high efficiency while providing both step-up and step-down DC/DC conversion.
Medicinal cannabis improves under LED lighting
Medicinal cannabis improves under LED lighting
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A study conducted by Wageningen University & Research Center found that some varieties of cannabis produce more medicinally active substances when grown under LEDs. It also found that medicinal cannabis…


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