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IMEC adding machine learning to 140GHz radar
IMEC adding machine learning to 140GHz radar
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The IMEC research institute plans to make future sensors, and specifically radar sensors, devices that extract useful information locally and…
Globalfoundries at work on next-gen FDSOI process
Globalfoundries at work on next-gen FDSOI process
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The 22FDX fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) process developed by Globalfoundries Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) is on track to debut later this…
Xilinx adds FPGA acceleration for new data-centre content-transfer framework
Xilinx adds FPGA acceleration for new data-centre content-transfer framework
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AMD, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm, and Xilinx have announced a collaboration on a Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)…
Lowest power, sub-GHz, multi-standard low-power wide-area transceiver IC
Lowest power, sub-GHz, multi-standard low-power wide-area transceiver IC
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imec and the associated Holst Centre have designed a low-power radio chip for long-range connectivity in sensor networks and future…

Direct laser structuring for mm-wave antennas
Direct laser structuring for mm-wave antennas
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In cooperation with the Institute of High Frequency Technology and Radio Systems (Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Funksysteme, HFT) at Leibniz University of Hannover, LPKF is assessing its Laser Direct Structuring…
IMEC demos multi-standard radio for IoT
IMEC demos multi-standard radio for IoT
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IMEC has developed a low-power wide-area (LPWA) multi-standard radio chip for use in Internet of Things applications and that supports both the Lora and SigFox networks.
Digital invisibility cloak moves closer to reality
Digital invisibility cloak moves closer to reality
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In their recent Optica paper “digital integral cloak,” researchers from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) combine a scanning camera on one side and an LCD display overlaid with an…
New MIT solar cell breaks theoretical efficiency limits
New MIT solar cell breaks theoretical efficiency limits
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In their Nature Energy paper "Enhanced photovoltaic energy conversion using thermally based spectral shaping," MIT researchers demonstrate how they were able to boost a traditional photovoltaic cell conversion efficiency by…
LPKF readies direct laser structuring for mm-wave antennas
LPKF readies direct laser structuring for mm-wave antennas
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In cooperation with the Institute of High Frequency Technology and Radio Systems (Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Funksysteme, HFT) at Leibniz University of Hannover, LPKF is assessing its Laser Direct Structuring…
MIT researchers to break solar conversion theoretical limits
MIT researchers to break solar conversion theoretical limits
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In their Nature Energy paper "Enhanced photovoltaic energy conversion using thermally based spectral shaping", MIT researchers demonstrate how they were able to boost a traditional photovoltaic cell conversion efficiency by…
CNTs & photonics to break solar conversion theoretical limits
CNTs & photonics to break solar conversion theoretical limits
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In their Nature Energy paper "Enhanced photovoltaic energy conversion using thermally based spectral shaping", MIT researchers demonstrate how they were able to boost a traditional photovoltaic cell conversion efficiency by…
Android N joins auto OS battle
Android N joins auto OS battle
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We’re all aware that operating system vendors have been itching to get into the automotive market. Google, for example, has been pushing Android Auto, and Apple has CarPlay. At its…
A few tips for qualitative optical bonding
A few tips for qualitative optical bonding
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Do not hope for a cure-all, but check fundamentally valid approaches to produce high-quality optical bonding. That is the expert advice by Klaus Wammes, CEO of the German Wammes and…
Infineon & imec collaborate on 79 GHz CMOS radar sensor
Infineon & imec collaborate on 79 GHz CMOS radar sensor
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Belgian nanoelectronics centre imec, and Infineon, are cooperating on CMOS sensor chip development; in an agreement disclosed on 24th May 2016, they are working on a highly-integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz…
650V GaN FET, low on-resistance, in TO-247 package
650V GaN FET, low on-resistance, in TO-247 package
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Gallium nitride device maker Transphorm recently introduced what it positions as the industry’s only fully-qualified 650V-rated FET, in 'conventional' packaging. It claims the lowest R(on) of any such device at…
Mobileye rejects FDSOI for EyeQ chip
Mobileye rejects FDSOI for EyeQ chip
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Mobileye NV has turned away from the fully depleted silicon-on-insulator manufacturing (FDSOI) process technology promoted by ST and is aiming at 10nm or finer FinFET process for its 5th generation…
Towards a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
Towards a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
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In their recent Optica paper “digital integral cloak”, researchers from the University of Rochester combine a scanning camera on one side and an LCD display overlaid with an array of…
Industry heavyweights unite to standardize cache coherent interconnects
Industry heavyweights unite to standardize cache coherent interconnects
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Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm Technologies and Xilinx are collaborating on the specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX).
MIT terahertz system detects spectroscopic ‘fingerprints’ in microseconds
MIT terahertz system detects spectroscopic ‘fingerprints’ in microseconds
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Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (Cambridge, MA) have proven a new terahertz spectroscopy system that uses a quantum cascade laser (QCL) to extract a material’s spectroscopic signature in…
Solar cell efficiency pushed to 35%
Solar cell efficiency pushed to 35%
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Researchers in Australia have hit a new record for the efficiency of solar cells.
Toward a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
Toward a digitally reconfigurable optical cloak
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In their recent Optica paper “digital integral cloak”, researchers from the University of Rochester combine a scanning camera on one side and an LCD display overlaid with an array of…
New topology reduces inductor height in ultra-small 12 V step down converter
New topology reduces inductor height in ultra-small 12 V step down converter
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A new power conversion topology has enabled the industry’s first 12 V, 10 A, 10 MHz series-capacitor buck converter that achieves more than 50 A/cm3 in current density…
Terahertz quantum cascade laser runs cool for chip-sized chemical fingerprinting
Terahertz quantum cascade laser runs cool for chip-sized chemical fingerprinting
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Researchers from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have proven a new terahertz spectroscopy system that uses a quantum cascade laser (QCL) to extract a material’s spectroscopic signature in just 100…
Cool terahertz quantum cascade laser speeds chemical fingerprinting
Cool terahertz quantum cascade laser speeds chemical fingerprinting
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Researchers from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have proven a new terahertz spectroscopy system that uses a quantum cascade laser (QCL) to extract a material’s spectroscopic signature in just 100…
Researchers push solar cell efficiency to 35%
Researchers push solar cell efficiency to 35%
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Researchers in Australia have hit a new record for the efficiency of solar cells.
Electric motorbike out of the printer
Electric motorbike out of the printer
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Motorbikes with electric propulsion are now nothing special anymore – but this here is really an exception: The Light Rider from Airbus subsidiary APWorks combines electric drive with bionic design…
Protection from electromagnetic fields
Protection from electromagnetic fields
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Directive 2013/35/EU must be implemented in national legislation by 1st July 2016. Employers will then have to make a risk assessment for every workplace. Suitable measuring equipment is already available.
‘Internet of Sensors’ project kicks off in Europe
‘Internet of Sensors’ project kicks off in Europe
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IoSense, a European pilot line project has kicked off in Dresden, Germany at the site of project leader Infineon Technologies AG.


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