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US forms printed smart sensor consortium
US forms printed smart sensor consortium
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Northeastern University has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nano-manufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials…
Gel-coated nanowires yield batteries with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
Gel-coated nanowires yield batteries with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
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A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be…
Samsung details foundry roadmap
Samsung details foundry roadmap
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Officials from Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (SSI) detailed the company’s foundry roadmap, which includes expanding FD-SOI production and offering low-cost alternatives…
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
MISRA clarifies safe and secure uses of the C language
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MISRA is releasing new documents to clarify use of the MISRA C Guidelines in developing any application with high integrity…

Californian researchers create battery mechanism with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
Californian researchers create battery mechanism with ‘indefinite’ cycle life
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A team at the University of California, Irvine report – almost inadvertently - inventing nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to…
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
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LEDs are being used in current luxury model automotive headlights. Future automotive headlight designs include more powerful LEDs, more LEDs, and highly animated and multifunctional LED strings. These "matrix" LED…
Light wavefront shaping to boost solar yield
Light wavefront shaping to boost solar yield
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Researchers at University of Twente have turned light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, which typically is associated with a principle of diffusion and creates a falling diffusion curve,…
Can opaque light layers boost yields for solar cells or LEDs?
Can opaque light layers boost yields for solar cells or LEDs?
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Researchers at University of Twente have turned light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, which typically is associated with a principle of diffusion and creates a falling diffusion curve,…
Fast flexible silicon transistor with wireless capabilities
Fast flexible silicon transistor with wireless capabilities
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University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have pioneered a unique method, based on a a very, very tiny knife, that could allow manufacturers to easily and cheaply fabricate high-performance transistors with wireless…
UVP protects rechargeable batteries
UVP protects rechargeable batteries
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Peter Demchenko considers a circuit that perfroms under-voltage protection (UVP) designed to protect rechargeable batteries from deep discharge damage.
3GPP approves Power Class 5 for NB-IoT applications
3GPP approves Power Class 5 for NB-IoT applications
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Swiss company, u-blox in collaboration with Neul has convinced its peers of the need for an extra power class for devices used in Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) applications.
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
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LEDs are being used in current luxury model automotive headlights. Future automotive headlight designs include more powerful LEDs, more LEDs, and highly animated and multifunctional LED strings. These "matrix" LED…
Timing controller supports Samsung AMOLED panels to 3200×1800 resolution
Timing controller supports Samsung AMOLED panels to 3200×1800 resolution
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Video display, touch controller and high-speed interface IC supplier, Parade Technologies, Ltd., has collaborated with Samsung Display to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and PC notebook markets.
How 48V technology can reduce fuel consumption by 25%
How 48V technology can reduce fuel consumption by 25%
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Already with its Gasoline Technology Car I (GTC I), automotive suppliers Continental and Schaeffler managed to reduce fuel consumption by 17%. At the Vienna Motor Symposium, these two companies introduced…
‘Network-Ready’ dimmable LED lighting provide additional energy savings
‘Network-Ready’ dimmable LED lighting provide additional energy savings
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Energy Focus, Inc. has developed a new generation of 'Network-Ready', dimmable LED lighting products, including dimmable tubular LED lamps that operate in direct-wire mode (without a ballast) and dual-mode (with…
First CMOS-based circulator chip promises wireless communication breakthrough
First CMOS-based circulator chip promises wireless communication breakthrough
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Full-duplex radio ICs that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to enable simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio were first invented last year by…
Extra power class for Narrowband-IoT applications approved
Extra power class for Narrowband-IoT applications approved
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Wireless and positioning-systems vendor u-blox (Thalwil, Switzerland), together with collaborator and IoT connectivity company Neul (Cambridge, UK) reports success in promoting the concept of an extra power class for devices…
FFT: Equations and history
FFT: Equations and history
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Shayan Ushani provides historical perspective of the Fast Fourier Transform and how it has impacted signal-processing projects.
Graphene-sponge touch sensor mimics human skin
Graphene-sponge touch sensor mimics human skin
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In their paper "A tactile sensor using a conductive graphene-sponge composite" published in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Korean researchers from the Department of Electronics Engineering at…
‘Inverse spin Hall effect’ harvests electricity from magnetism
‘Inverse spin Hall effect’ harvests electricity from magnetism
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With microwaves on the rise worldwide, generated by cell phone towers, mobile devices, WiFi, Bluetooth, 5G and on and on, it's natural that scientists would investigate ways to harness these…
3GPP approves lower Power Class 5 (20 dBm) for NB-IoT applications
3GPP approves lower Power Class 5 (20 dBm) for NB-IoT applications
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Wireless and positioning-systems vendor u-blox (Thalwil, Switzerland), together with collaborator and IoT connectivity company Neul (Cambridge, UK) reports success in promoting the concept of an extra power class for devices…
Harvest electricity from magnetism
Harvest electricity from magnetism
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With microwaves on the rise worldwide, generated by cell phone towers, mobile devices, WiFi, Bluetooth, 5G and on and on, it's natural that scientists would investigate ways to harness these…
Spongy tactile sensor emulates human skin
Spongy tactile sensor emulates human skin
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In their paper "A tactile sensor using a conductive graphene-sponge composite" published in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Korean researchers from the Department of Electronics Engineering at…
On-chip RF circulator and a single antenna to double Wi-Fi speed
On-chip RF circulator and a single antenna to double Wi-Fi speed
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Full-duplex radio ICs that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to enable simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio were first invented last year by…
‘Network-Ready’ dimmable LED lighting provide additional energy savings
‘Network-Ready’ dimmable LED lighting provide additional energy savings
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Energy Focus, Inc. has developed a new generation of 'Network-Ready', dimmable LED lighting products, including dimmable tubular LED lamps that operate in direct-wire mode (without a ballast) and dual-mode (with…
How 48V technology can reduce fuel consumption by 25%
How 48V technology can reduce fuel consumption by 25%
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Already with its Gasoline Technology Car I (GTC I), automotive suppliers Continental and Schaeffler managed to reduce fuel consumption by 17%. At the Vienna Motor Symposium, these two companies introduced…
Timing controller supports Samsung AMOLED panels to 3200×1800 resolution
Timing controller supports Samsung AMOLED panels to 3200×1800 resolution
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Video display, touch controller and high-speed interface IC supplier, Parade Technologies, Ltd., has collaborated with Samsung Display to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and PC notebook markets.
CSEM/Fujitsu collaboration on ultra-low-power process
CSEM/Fujitsu collaboration on ultra-low-power process
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Proposing to combine Deeply Depleted Channel and near/sub-threshold technologies to reduce energy in logic circuitry, Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor (Yokohama) and CSEM (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) have set up a joint development agreement…


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