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Imec extracts 22% efficiency from crystalline silicon n-PERT solar cells
Imec extracts 22% efficiency from crystalline silicon n-PERT solar cells
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Belgian nano-electronics research centre imec has announced that it has improved its large area n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally…
Wind River shows ECU consolidation, smartphone integration
Wind River shows ECU consolidation, smartphone integration
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Less than a week after the CES has ended, another event is drawing the attention of automotive electronics designers. The…
Solar film air dome solution targets energy self-sufficiency
Solar film air dome solution targets energy self-sufficiency
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German company Heliatek has installed the company's solar film, HeliaFilm, on a PVC-based membrane air dome in Berlin, Germany and…
Advanced networks and displays inspired by spider’s web
Advanced networks and displays inspired by spider’s web
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A spider's web could provide clues on how to build the next generation of light-manipulating networks.

Simplifying development in the Internet of Things
Simplifying development in the Internet of Things
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The confluence of widespread network connectivity, machine-to-machine technologies and the multitude of new connected devices, together with the rise of cloud computing, rapidly growing data volumes and data analytics processing,…
Hot-carrier solar cells promise efficiency gains and savings
Hot-carrier solar cells promise efficiency gains and savings
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A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have paired up polymers to recover some of the energy lost as heat by producing…
Controlling light in nanoscale circuits with dramatically reduced energy loss
Controlling light in nanoscale circuits with dramatically reduced energy loss
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Graphene has made squeezing light into tiny circuits and controlling its flow electrically is a realistic scenario — realized by exploiting so-called plasmons, in which electrons and light move together…
Verizon Vehicle brings wireless roadside assistance, dignostics to 200 million cars
Verizon Vehicle brings wireless roadside assistance, dignostics to 200 million cars
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Verizon has announced Verizon Vehicle, a connected-vehicle service available directly to consumers in the U.S., which aims to modernize traditional roadside assistance, virtual mechanic and diagnostics by leveraging the power…
Are next generation EV batteries a step closer?
Are next generation EV batteries a step closer?
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Chemistry Professor Linda Nazar and her research team at the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo claim to have discovered a material that maintains a rechargeable sulphur cathode…
Video: Smart bullet carries two sensors
Video: Smart bullet carries two sensors
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SmartRounds Technology LLC (Brighton, Colorado) has developed what it describes as the as world's first smart, less-than-lethal bullet. It includes both a MEMS accelerometer and a CMOS image sensor that…
Eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
Eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
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Researchers at Scandinavian research organization SINTEF have made progress in developing components that dissolve in water. They are made of a combination of magnesium, silicon, or silicon with a magnesium…
Silver matrix electrodes boost lithium-based battery discharge rates
Silver matrix electrodes boost lithium-based battery discharge rates
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have used x-rays to map the changing atomic architecture of a lithium-based battery silver vanadium diphosphate…
No ‘iPhone Moment’ for IoT yet
No ‘iPhone Moment’ for IoT yet
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The International CES exposed how far its aspirational promoters still are from the reality of the “Internet of Things” (IoT). As one executive in the electronics industry, who asked for…
Spread Spectrum Frequency Modulation Reduces Automotive LED Driver EMI
Spread Spectrum Frequency Modulation Reduces Automotive LED Driver EMI
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The large number of electronics in an automobile must have reasonably low electromagnetic interference (EMI) in order to avoid disturbing the radio reception, GPS navigation tools and other forms of…
OmniVision replaces VCM with MEMS autofocus
OmniVision replaces VCM with MEMS autofocus
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CMOS image sensor vendor OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has used a MEMS-based autofocus system from Wavelens SA (Grenoble, France) for autofocus, which it reckons is superior to the…
CAN FD protocol revision in detail
CAN FD protocol revision in detail
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Going beyond the 1 MBit/s bandwidth limit of traditional CAN, “CAN with Flexible Data-Rate”or CAN FD features a new frame format that supports the switch to faster bit rates or…
Bridging the gap between speed and power in asynchronous SRAMs
Bridging the gap between speed and power in asynchronous SRAMs
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Anirban Sengupta and Reuben George of Cypress Semiconductor consider how to bridge the gap between speed and power in asynchronous SRAMs.
Microsemi collaborates with STMicroelectronics to develop EV car charger
Microsemi collaborates with STMicroelectronics to develop EV car charger
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Microsemi Corporation has collaborated with STMicroelectronics to create an electric vehicle car charger solution using Microsemi's innovative PLC line driver.
Stopping a new breed of hackers accessing unconnected computers or smartphones
Stopping a new breed of hackers accessing unconnected computers or smartphones
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Hackers might have a method of seeing what you are doing, even if you did not connect to WiFi or the Internet — just by analyzing the low-power electronic signals…
Meetings of interest; updated
Meetings of interest; updated
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Feb 22 to 24: ISS Europe, Amsterdam www.semi.org Feb. 22 to 26: ISSCC, San Francisco, www.isscc.org Feb. 24 to 26: Embedded World, Nuremberg, www.embeddedworld.de March 2…
Wideband systems for RF signal capture and analysis
Wideband systems for RF signal capture and analysis
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Radio signals are all around us. With so many transmitters, both satellite and ground-based, there's a growing need for monitoring.
Computer simulations solve blue LED production mystery
Computer simulations solve blue LED production mystery
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Scientists at Univeristy College London (UCL), in collaboration with groups at the Univeristy of Bath and the Daresbury Laboratory, have used computer simulations of gallium nitride to shed fresh light…
Rohde & Schwarz highlights application-specific options for scopes
Rohde & Schwarz highlights application-specific options for scopes
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In the continuing expansion of its oscilloscope spectrum, Rohde & Schwarz puts the focus on 16 bit vertical resolution, higher bandwidth, history mode and segmented memory for the RTM product…
RF car key could make vehicles ‘cool’ according to NXP
RF car key could make vehicles ‘cool’ according to NXP
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The car key is seemingly destined to become the most visible object differentiating one car brand from another, thus cementing the bond between carmakers and car owners. At least, that’s…
The Key to a ‘Cool Car’ Is a Cool Key – NXP
The Key to a ‘Cool Car’ Is a Cool Key – NXP
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The car key is seemingly destined to become the most visible object differentiating one car brand from another, thus cementing the bond between carmakers and car owners. At least, that’s…
Mercedes-Benz self driving car communicates via LEDs
Mercedes-Benz self driving car communicates via LEDs
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Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a prototype automatic driving car at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 in Las Vegas which features an innovative use of LED technologies for signaling and indicator applications.
CES reveals IoT not ready for ‘iPhone Moment’
CES reveals IoT not ready for ‘iPhone Moment’
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The International CES exposed how far its aspirational promoters still are from the reality of the “Internet of Things” (IoT). As one executive in the electronics industry, who asked for…
Flexible test strategies for Bay Trail processors
Flexible test strategies for Bay Trail processors
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Goepel electronic GmbH introduces model libraries developed for testing and programming of Intel Bay Trail processors, which are part of Intel's Atom family. The VarioTAP libraries allow flexible execution of…


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