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Pathway to converting sunlight to electricity is indentified
Pathway to converting sunlight to electricity is indentified
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A University of Oregon spectroscopy experiment has opened a window on how captured sunlight can be converted into electricity and…
LED-based sensors for wearable fitness tracking products
LED-based sensors for wearable fitness tracking products
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Joerg Heerlein and Tilman Ruegheimer consider LED-based sensors for wearable fitness tracking products.
Volvo airs cloud-based cyclist protection system
Volvo airs cloud-based cyclist protection system
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The facts are disturbing: 50 percent of all cyclists killed in Europe's traffic have collided with a car. In Germany,…
Qimonda’s late legacy: 28nm FeRAM
Qimonda’s late legacy: 28nm FeRAM
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CMOS-compatible 28nm FeRAM could become commercially available within three to five years, according to research from a collaborative project between…

Smart window provides power for LEDs
Smart window provides power for LEDs
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a smart window which can darken or brighten without the need for an external power source. The window’s stored energy can be…
First extreme HPLEDs offer 40 percent system cost reductions
First extreme HPLEDs offer 40 percent system cost reductions
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Cree, Inc. has begun sampling the company's XLamp Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs, a class of LEDs that enable a system cost reduction of up to 40 percent for lighting…
Smart window tints and acts as transparent battery
Smart window tints and acts as transparent battery
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a smart window which can darken or brighten without the need for an external power source.  The window’s stored energy can be…
Low power capacitive touch interface platform
Low power capacitive touch interface platform
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Atmel Corporation has launched the company's QTouch Surface platform for capacitive touch-enabled user interfaces. Consuming less than 4µA, the QTouch Surface technology is suitable for wearables and battery-powered applications that…
Do electric vehicle batteries on the grid make sense?
Do electric vehicle batteries on the grid make sense?
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Mike Everett, CTO at Maxwell Technologies, speaks out against the use of electric vehicle batteries for storage in the smart grid.
Infrared makes multi-finger gesture control affordable
Infrared makes multi-finger gesture control affordable
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Gesture control, already commonplace in consumer electronics, is also finding increasingly acceptance in the automotive environment. So far however, deployment is restricted to upmarket vehicles - for the affordable market…
World’s lowest power capacitive touch solution is revealed
World’s lowest power capacitive touch solution is revealed
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Atmel Corporation has launched the company's QTouch Surface platform for capacitive touch-enabled user interfaces. Consuming less than 4µA, the QTouch Surface technology is suitable for wearables and battery-powered applications that…
MIT discovers superconductor law
MIT discovers superconductor law
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Superconductors are in the news again. This time, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered a law governing thin-film superconductors, eliminating much of the trial and error for companies…
Sony transforms eyewear into smart augmented reality devices
Sony transforms eyewear into smart augmented reality devices
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Sony Corporation has announced an attachable smartglass module featuring OLED technology that enables ordinary glasses to be turned into augmented reality smart devices.
From bionic contact lenses to Li-Fi communications
From bionic contact lenses to Li-Fi communications
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Here in reverse order are the top ten LED Lighting news stories of 2014. If you missed these stories the first time round now is your chance to catch up…
Evaluating Zero-Drift Amplifier Performance
Evaluating Zero-Drift Amplifier Performance
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Analog applications are demanding better precision and drift performance due to improvements in data converter resolution and the economic drive to reduce or eliminate periodic calibration.
Set top boxes get smarter than TVs
Set top boxes get smarter than TVs
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Wyplay and Sigfox have joined their efforts to integrate Sigfox' IoT cellular connectivity solution with Wyplay’s open-source pay-TV set-top-box (STB) middleware. This will allow TV operators to connect their broadcast…
Graphene wrapper boosts lithium-sulfur battery performance
Graphene wrapper boosts lithium-sulfur battery performance
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A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a multifunctional sulfur cathode at the nanolevel which addresses performance-related issues such as…
LG adds quantum dot technology to 4K ULTRA HD TVs
LG adds quantum dot technology to 4K ULTRA HD TVs
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LG Electronics plans to unveil a 4K ULTRA HD TV series with quantum dot technology as a new component of the company's expanded TV lineup at the 2015 International CES…
Feeding scrap plastic into your designs
Feeding scrap plastic into your designs
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Localized design and manufacture, shorter supply chains and minimal waste are all hot topics that the 3D printing industry promises to address.
Tiny spectrometer targets IoT
Tiny spectrometer targets IoT
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Startup company NanoLambda has developed a $10 spectrometer-on-a-chip that's suitable for use on a wide range of consumer devices. The Spectrum Sensor measures individual wavelengths and is accurate to 1…
Reference design spotlights high-power LED lighting applications
Reference design spotlights high-power LED lighting applications
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Power Integrations has introduced a reference design for LED streetlights, high-bay lights and other high-power LED-lighting applications.
EDA tools should be free
EDA tools should be free
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Scott Elder, principal engineer with Linear Technology argues that access to EDA tools and learned papers could be free if they were developed and offered by the right companies or…
Graphene wrapper boosts lithium-sulfur battery performance capabilities
Graphene wrapper boosts lithium-sulfur battery performance capabilities
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A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a multifunctional sulfur cathode at the nanolevel which addresses performance-related issues such as…
Set top boxes become smarter than TVs
Set top boxes become smarter than TVs
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Wyplay and Sigfox have joined their efforts to integrate Sigfox' IoT cellular connectivity solution with Wyplay’s open-source pay-TV set-top-box (STB) middleware. This will allow TV operators to connect their broadcast…
Europe’s largest battery-storage project goes operational in the UK
Europe’s largest battery-storage project goes operational in the UK
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Europe's largest battery-storage project has become operational at Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England with S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos collaborating to deploy the technology onto a United Kingdom…
From 20x faster batteries to spray-on solar cells
From 20x faster batteries to spray-on solar cells
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The Top 10 Most Popular Power Management News Stories of 2014 have chiefly focused on technology advances that improved the performance of power sources or lowered their costs.
Passive radar based on mobile radio detects boats and planes
Passive radar based on mobile radio detects boats and planes
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE in Bonn have developed a passive surveillance system for littoral regions based on mobile radio illumination called Passive…
Heliatek completes world’s first BIOPV concrete façade installation
Heliatek completes world’s first BIOPV concrete façade installation
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Dresden-based Heliatek has delivered the first Building Integrated OPV (BIOPV) solar films to China which were directly integrated to concrete façade elements to become the world's first BIOPV concrete façade…


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