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Silicon carbide semiconductor switches enhance energy efficiency
Silicon carbide semiconductor switches enhance energy efficiency
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Researchers of Germany's Light Technology Institute (LTI) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are receiving EUR 800,000 from Germany's Federal…
Smartwatch with ‘brains’ dumps smartphone for ‘dumb’ screen
Smartwatch with ‘brains’ dumps smartphone for ‘dumb’ screen
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Canadian consumer electronics innovator, Neptune, has taken a different approach to the smartwatch, aiming to build a device that contains…
Germanium quantum dot advance promises high-efficiency solar cells
Germanium quantum dot advance promises high-efficiency solar cells
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A heterojunction solar cell using germanium quantum dots on an ordinary n-type silicon wafer have been formed by scientists working…
IoT networking standards; who’s who and who’s winning out?
IoT networking standards; who’s who and who’s winning out?
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How to connect the myriad devices that (it is forecast) will soon pervade the environment we live in? There are…

Kaspersky Lab and BioNyfiken team up to connect human bodies to the Internet
Kaspersky Lab and BioNyfiken team up to connect human bodies to the Internet
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Security expert Kaspersky Lab has teamed up with Swedish bio-hacking community BioNyfiken to uncover the realities of connecting our bodies to the Internet through the use of smart implants.
Artificial tree harvests solar energy to charge mobile and other devices
Artificial tree harvests solar energy to charge mobile and other devices
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Today, we think of solar energy in terms of massive areas of land covered in panels, or for domestic use as panels on a roof. There is also a strong…
TDD/FDD LTE bands for mixed carrier aggregation verified
TDD/FDD LTE bands for mixed carrier aggregation verified
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Rohde & Schwarz has successfully verified combining various frequency bands in mixed-mode TDD and FDD mixed carrier aggregation.
Will energy-harvesting 3D printed trees charge your smartphone?
Will energy-harvesting 3D printed trees charge your smartphone?
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Scientists at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) have developed a prototype of a 3D printed tree that harvests solar energy using organic solar cells and kinetic energy from…
Audi launches lighting lab
Audi launches lighting lab
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At its headquarters in Ingolstadt, carmaker Audi has opened a development and test centre for interior and exterior lighting. With a driveable light tunnel of 120 metres, the new Lighting…
NeuroMem IC matches patterns, sees all, knows all
NeuroMem IC matches patterns, sees all, knows all
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If you’ve ever seen the U.S. TV series “Person of Interest,” during which an anonymous face in the Manhattan crowd, highlighted inside a digital frame, is identified by “The…
GlobalFoundries teams with imec on RF CMOS
GlobalFoundries teams with imec on RF CMOS
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GlobalFoundries has announced a partnership with nanoelectronics research center imec for joint research on future radio architectures and designs for highly integrated mobile devices and IoT applications.
Is this the Tesla killer?
Is this the Tesla killer?
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Only a week after the introduction of its second-generation electric sports sedan Quant F, e-car design company nanoFlowCell has announced another development to be shown at the Geneva Motor Salon…
Seamless real-time analysis of frequency hopping
Seamless real-time analysis of frequency hopping
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Wireless communication systems that use frequency hopping have the advantage that their data transmission is less susceptible to interference and that diverse applications can share one frequency band. In order…
Z-foil current sensing LED resistors extend battery lifetimes
Z-foil current sensing LED resistors extend battery lifetimes
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Vishay Precision Group, Inc's Vishay Foil Resistors product line (VFR) has introduced two ultra-high-precision Bulk Metal Z-Foil current sensing resistors designed to improve LED brightness and efficiency in portable battery-powered…
Can mimicking biology improve Li-ion battery performance?
Can mimicking biology improve Li-ion battery performance?
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Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have isolated a peptide which binds strongly to lithium manganese nickel oxide (LMNO), a material that can be used to make…
Seven communications technologies to watch in 2015
Seven communications technologies to watch in 2015
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LTE and LTE-A, VoLTE and HetNets, 802.11ac, NFV, IoT, and 5G will all make significant forward strides in 2015, from development to deployment.
Optimized perovskite films claim record power conversion efficiencies
Optimized perovskite films claim record power conversion efficiencies
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Researchers at the USA’s Cornell University, Oxford University and Cambridge University in the UK and Nanjing University in China have demonstrated a method of optimizing the fabrication of perovskite solar…
Android to Become ‘Workhorse’ of Cybercrime
Android to Become ‘Workhorse’ of Cybercrime
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As of the end of 2014, 16 million mobile devices worldwide have been infected by malicious software, estimated Alcatel-Lucent’s security arm, Motive Security Labs, in its latest security report released…
Blue LED chips claim eight percent efficiency gain
Blue LED chips claim eight percent efficiency gain
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Osram Opto Semiconductors is claiming to have reduced the value of the forward voltage of the company's Osram Oslon Square blue LED chips to one of the best values in…
Power supply de-rating in practice
Power supply de-rating in practice
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Stephen Dodson, Engineering Manager, XP Power explains how power supply de-rating works in practice.
CMOS image sensors surpassing Moore’s law
CMOS image sensors surpassing Moore’s law
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging chips are becoming the industry's leader in advanced process technology — instead of the traditional leaders (processors and memory) — thanks to strong demand…
Volvo project to share road-condition information in the cloud expanded
Volvo project to share road-condition information in the cloud expanded
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In a joint project, carmaker Volvo, the Swedish Transport Administration and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration combine V2X communications and cloud-based data storage and processing. The purpose: spreading information about…
IP blocks for plastic electronics target IoT, wearable devices
IP blocks for plastic electronics target IoT, wearable devices
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Although PragmatIC Printing's CEO Scott White would not reveal to what extent ARM Holdings invested in his company (which was initially funded by the company’s management together with private investors),…
Volvo cars share road-condition info in the cloud
Volvo cars share road-condition info in the cloud
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In a joint project, carmaker Volvo, the Swedish Transport Administration and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration combine V2X communications and cloud-based data storage and processing. The purpose: spreading information about…
Add capacitive touch to a panel with a flexible, rollable film
Add capacitive touch to a panel with a flexible, rollable film
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Zytronic has applied its projected capacitive touch sensing technology to the form factor of a rollable and extremely flexible touch film – complementing its range of glass touch sensors.
IP blocks line up for plastic electronics
IP blocks line up for plastic electronics
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Although PragmatIC Printing's CEO Scott White would not reveal to what extent ARM Holdings invested in his company (which was initially funded by the company’s management together with private investors),…
3D TSVs take CMOS image sensors beyond Moore’s law
3D TSVs take CMOS image sensors beyond Moore’s law
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Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imaging chips are becoming the industry's leader in advanced process technology — instead of the traditional leaders (processors and memory) — thanks to strong demand…
LDO design techniques for small spaces
LDO design techniques for small spaces
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Erik Mentze, senior IC design engineer with Cactus Semiconductor (Chandler, Arizona), discusses voltage regulation in the context of miniature systems.


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