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MEMS fabrication on the cheap
MEMS fabrication on the cheap
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The mass fabrication techniques used for today's Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) rely on costly semiconductor lithographic equipment. As for silicon chips,…
Measure phase difference using correlation
Measure phase difference using correlation
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Shayan Ushani considers how to measure phase difference using a correlation technique.
DARPA funds atoms-to-products breakthrough
DARPA funds atoms-to-products breakthrough
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Materials have uncommon electrical and quantum-level properties at the nanoscale that disappear at the millimeter-scale, where most chips are manufactured.
Car as a commodity: from Hummers to Ho-Hum
Car as a commodity: from Hummers to Ho-Hum
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Is Google threatening to homogenize cars into oblivion as Microsoft/Intel did with PCs and Google itself did with its Android…

Go beyond the “Rails”
Go beyond the “Rails”
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This month Maxim Integrated is giving away 10 of its new break-through “Beyond-the-Rails™” precision, low-noise, low-drift, MAX44267 dual operational amplifier evaluation kits, worth approximately 50 USD each.
CMOS-based neural probes tackle single neurons
CMOS-based neural probes tackle single neurons
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At last IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting 2015, nanoelectronics research center imec, KU Leuven, and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF, set up by VIB/KU Leuven and imec) presented a set of…
​Light trapping technique boosts solar cell power by 30 percent
​Light trapping technique boosts solar cell power by 30 percent
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a light trapping technique that has enabled more than 30% power enhancement of an ultrathin…
Mosquito trapping LED street lamp helps combat dengue fever
Mosquito trapping LED street lamp helps combat dengue fever
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Researchers at the University of Malaya have created a LED-based street lamp that mimics human smells to lure and capture mosquitoes in a bid to curb the spread of insect-borne…
Flash, STT-MRAM and resistive RAM: they all come with different challenges
Flash, STT-MRAM and resistive RAM: they all come with different challenges
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Research in memory is really exciting these days: in parallel you have the scaling of classical memories (SRAM, DRAM, Flash) and the emergence of new memories capable of enabling new…
Go beyond the “Rails”!
Go beyond the “Rails”!
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This month Maxim Integrated is giving away 10 of its new break-through “Beyond-the-Rails™” precision, low-noise, low-drift, MAX44267 dual operational amplifier evaluation kits, worth approximately 50 USD each.
​Light trapping technique boosts solar cell power by 30 percent
​Light trapping technique boosts solar cell power by 30 percent
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a light trapping technique that has enabled more than 30% power enhancement of an ultrathin…
How to get 500W in an eighth-brick converter with GaN, part 2
How to get 500W in an eighth-brick converter with GaN, part 2
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John Glaser of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation continues to examine how to achieve 500 W in an eighth-brick converter using GaN technology.
Bat-inspired ultrasound 3D mapping could equip drones
Bat-inspired ultrasound 3D mapping could equip drones
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German startup Toposens has developed a lightweight and low-cost 3D sensor system that performs ultrasound echolocation and turns the acquired signal into tangible 3D scenery mapping, for either humans or…
Renewables plus Super Grid set to power up Russia
Renewables plus Super Grid set to power up Russia
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Researchers from Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) have modelled a renewable energy system for Russia and Central Asia that demonstrates that a fully renewable energy system would be achievable and…
4CC LTE-A FDD carrier aggregation testing takes off
4CC LTE-A FDD carrier aggregation testing takes off
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The Rohde & Schwarz R&S CMWflexx wideband radio communication tester setup has been used in combination to the EMITE E500 reverberation chamber and a channel emulator to test up to…
Thermal microscopy: Can heat detection help measure disease progress?
Thermal microscopy: Can heat detection help measure disease progress?
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Researchers at the University of Bordeaux are tapping into active thermography camera technology to create a thermal microscope that is able to produce heat maps of single biological cells to…
Intelligent battery targets lowering cost of powering industrial production
Intelligent battery targets lowering cost of powering industrial production
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IK4-IKERLAN, a Spanish technology centre based in the Basque Country, has begun engineering integrated tools for battery packs used in industry which embrace innovative energy efficiency features.
Topological insulators promise extremely low power consumption electric devices
Topological insulators promise extremely low power consumption electric devices
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Researchers in Japan and China have identified the requirements for the development of new types of extremely low power consumption electric devices by studying Cr-doped (Sb, Bi)2Te3 thin films.
LEDs prove cost-saving horticulture alternative to sodium lamps
LEDs prove cost-saving horticulture alternative to sodium lamps
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Researchers at the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue University have harvested new information about the feasibility of using LEDs in greenhouse tomato operations.
Electro-photonic processor chip communicates directly by light
Electro-photonic processor chip communicates directly by light
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In a letter to Nature, a group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and University of Colorado, Boulder, report the development of a highly-integrated photonic…
Samsung is running 28nm FDSOI chip process
Samsung is running 28nm FDSOI chip process
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Samsung is running 28nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) wafers for STMicroelectronics, the developer of the technology, and has other customers lined up, according to an Advanced Substrate News report.
Holistic diagnosis system for electric cars developed
Holistic diagnosis system for electric cars developed
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Like all cars, electric vehicles happen to break down or fail eventually. Technical problems in the powertrain of electrical can be more easily diagnosed and repaired if workshops use a…
Solid-state lithium-ion batteries: Providing a safer alternative
Solid-state lithium-ion batteries: Providing a safer alternative
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A study conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has revealed results that could boost the performance of solid-state electrolytes and lead to a safer, even more…
Laser frequency combs enable precise molecular sensing advance
Laser frequency combs enable precise molecular sensing advance
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, have used frequency-agile laser frequency combs to enable high-speed and accurate molecular sensing as a new technique of…
Researchers create focused spin wave beams for nanoscale microwave oscillators
Researchers create focused spin wave beams for nanoscale microwave oscillators
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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg Physics Department have finally found the secret to synchronize an unlimited number of spintronic oscillators. Such devices are very promising for future applications requiring…
Can prime-time charging of EVs reduce smart grid crunch?
Can prime-time charging of EVs reduce smart grid crunch?
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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are helping to develop smart grid solutions that aim to ease the crunch caused by powering our transportation with electricity.
Smartphones as 3-D scanners
Smartphones as 3-D scanners
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3-D scanners are still expensive relative to 3-D printers. However, an algorithm developed by Brown University researchers my help bring high-quality 3-D scanning capability to off-the-shelf digital cameras and smartphones.
Rohde & Schwarz links with Bluetest for fast LTE CA OTA measurement solution
Rohde & Schwarz links with Bluetest for fast LTE CA OTA measurement solution
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Rohde & Schwarz and Bluetest have expanded their combined over-the-air (OTA) test solution to include 4CC downlink measurements.


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