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Cooling benefits of graphene-based film promise highly efficient LEDs
Cooling benefits of graphene-based film promise highly efficient LEDs
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method which claims to enable electronics devices to be…
Photo battery shines light on safer power
Photo battery shines light on safer power
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Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India have devised a way of using light…
Calculation program speeds evaluation of lighting solution efficiency
Calculation program speeds evaluation of lighting solution efficiency
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Zumtobel has released a calculation program which enables engineers to see at a glance what is the difference between various…
HiL simulation in the test of hybrid powertrains
HiL simulation in the test of hybrid powertrains
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Today, automobiles are equipped with an enormous number of ECUs to manage expanded functionality and advanced controls in the vehicle.

Text book presents modern analog components
Text book presents modern analog components
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Silicon Analog Components is a 607-page hardback book that covers modern analog components, their characteristics and their dependence on manufacturing process parameters. The subtitle of the book is Device Design,…
Li-ion battery to power search for life on Mars
Li-ion battery to power search for life on Mars
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Saft has signed a contract worth more than one million euros from Airbus Defence and Space Ltd (UK) to develop, qualify and test a specific lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery system to…
IBM research puts SiGe in 7nm test chips
IBM research puts SiGe in 7nm test chips
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An alliance clustered around IBM Research in Albany, New York, has produced the first test chips that exemplify the 7nm node.
Powering wearables: Are niobium nanowire supercapacitors the answer?
Powering wearables: Are niobium nanowire supercapacitors the answer?
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Researchers at MIT and in Canada have found a way to deliver the short but intense bursts of power needed by wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring.
Infrared LED enables iris scanning for smartphone biometric identification
Infrared LED enables iris scanning for smartphone biometric identification
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Infrared light emitting diodes (IREDs) from Osram Opto Semiconductors have been used as the light source for the iris scanning technology incorporated into the ARROWS NX F-04G smartphone from Fujitsu…
Research project to address flexible air interface below 6 GHz for 5G networks
Research project to address flexible air interface below 6 GHz for 5G networks
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A group of 16 companies are collaborating on advancing the development of a new air interface below 6 GHz for 5G networks.
Infrared LED helps unlock smartphone biometric identification
Infrared LED helps unlock smartphone biometric identification
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Infrared light emitting diodes (IREDs) from Osram Opto Semiconductors have been used as the light source for the iris scanning technology incorporated into the ARROWS NX F-04G smartphone from Fujitsu…
Wireless power transfer technology enables omnidirectional free space charging
Wireless power transfer technology enables omnidirectional free space charging
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A group of researchers at KAIST has developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) technology that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction, even if the…
Battery-powered aircraft crosses the Alps
Battery-powered aircraft crosses the Alps
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Researchers of the Institute of Aircraft Design in Stuttgart showed the practicability of battery powered aircraft in a flight across the Alps mountains – a first time for a battery-powered…
Toshiba tunes tech for the IoT
Toshiba tunes tech for the IoT
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Toshiba has disclosed development of two silicon process technologies specifically optimised for microcontrollers and wireless communication ICs. Ultra-low power consumption flash memory embedded in logic process for power-critical applications; and…
It’s crunch time (again) for EUV lithography
It’s crunch time (again) for EUV lithography
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Looking down the semiconductor road map, researchers at the Imec research institute see small, medium and large challenges on the horizon. In presentations and interviews at their annual event here,…
3D printing for photonics: a British initiative
3D printing for photonics: a British initiative
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Researchers at the University of Southampton are set to investigate the use of 3D printing, or additive manufacturing techniques for the fabrication of optical fibres, or at least the complex…
Thin film solar cells may rival silicon
Thin film solar cells may rival silicon
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A consortium of eleven European partners in eight countries claims to have an effcient alternative to silicon that achieves 25% efficiency with its Sharc25 (super-high efficiency CIGS thin-film solar cells)…
BBC to give pocket-sized sensor-computer to UK children
BBC to give pocket-sized sensor-computer to UK children
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The BBC, the UK's national broadcaster, plans to provide every 11-year old child in the country with a free pocket computer to encourage familiarity with coding.
Crash test dummy tenses up before impact
Crash test dummy tenses up before impact
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Toyota has created a new generation of virtual THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety), aka crash test dummy. Like its predecessors, it is a digital model for the simulation of…
Multiprocessing platform for powerful car computers
Multiprocessing platform for powerful car computers
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In today’s passenger cars, at average 70 embedded computers monitor relevant signals and control certain driving functions. The ongoing trend to automating driving functions and the growing complexity of the…
Sensor offers faster detection of hidden objects
Sensor offers faster detection of hidden objects
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Scientists at the UK's University of Warwick have developed a new type of sensor, that is much faster than competing technologies used to detect and identify hidden objects.
Portable light analysis – Quantum-dot spectrometer in a smartphone
Portable light analysis – Quantum-dot spectrometer in a smartphone
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Scientists at MIT have now shown they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera by using quantum dot technology.
Contextually smart mobile services coming to consumers
Contextually smart mobile services coming to consumers
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By the end of the year, contextually smart mobile services will be available to consumers as the Cosmos group of companies — Cinia, Multiprint, Vediafi and Technical Research Centre of…
Solar powered flight smashes long distance records
Solar powered flight smashes long distance records
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Solar Impulse-2 (Si2), the solar-powered aeroplane has landed in Hawaii after making a record-breaking 8,000 km flight across the Pacific from Japan. The distance covered and the time spent in…
Coherency and synchronisation in MIMO systems, more than just a phase
Coherency and synchronisation in MIMO systems, more than just a phase
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In modern communications systems, we’re always looking for more: more data; more bandwidth; more coverage. Beyond using more processing power, more spectrum and more base stations, one option helping to…
3D fingerprint scanner beats Apple’s
3D fingerprint scanner beats Apple’s
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Password security is already becoming a thing of the past with biometrics taking their place. For instance, fingerprint identification is being built-in to every new Apple mobile device, thus forcing…
Prototyping in silicon photonics boosted by European collaboration
Prototyping in silicon photonics boosted by European collaboration
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Belgian research institute Imec and its partners have marked the completion of a three-year program (running 2012 - 2015) to develop a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them…
What she sees is what you get
What she sees is what you get
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360º video is an ongoing experiment, something that's technically feasible, yet whose consumer use-cases are not quite well defined. Several startups are promising to revolutionize selfies with spherical panoramic video…


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