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Multi-sensor development kit aims at personal health
Multi-sensor development kit aims at personal health
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Research centres imec and Holst Centre have developed an open hardware development kit for personal health monitoring applications. In this…
Reversible ammonia batteries harvest low-grade waste heat
Reversible ammonia batteries harvest low-grade waste heat
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Engineers at Penn State are claiming to have developed an efficient method to harvest low-grade waste heat as electricity by…
Total Internal Reflection technology boosts LED lighting efficiency
Total Internal Reflection technology boosts LED lighting efficiency
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Manchester-based MHA Lighting has launched the company's End Lit Rod (ELR) technology alongside the LodeStar product range to provide high…
What is Design-to-Cost and why does it matter?
What is Design-to-Cost and why does it matter?
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Design-to-Cost should be part of your design process. With a committed team and the right tools, you can reduce product…

Compressed sensing improves solar cell defect detection
Compressed sensing improves solar cell defect detection
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Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a method for detecting defects in solar cells using a technique called 'compressed sensing'.
Smartphone app helps home owners calculate energy efficiency
Smartphone app helps home owners calculate energy efficiency
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German research institute Fraunhofer IAO has developed a smartphone app to help home owners calculate the benefits of energy efficiency measures before investing in a property.
How can supercapacitors help reduce global warming?
How can supercapacitors help reduce global warming?
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Chemists and engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing the greenhouse effect and use it to make…
The rise of GaN on Si to take on high-power and high-volume markets
The rise of GaN on Si to take on high-power and high-volume markets
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GaN technology has already made an impact on the high performance and RF market, but according to MACOM this is just the beginning. The company is in a unique position…
Embedded LED enables bionic contact lenses
Embedded LED enables bionic contact lenses
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University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that by using a LED one-third of a millimeter in diameter it was feasible to stream hands-free information across a contact lens.
Lithium battery shortcomings led to Boeing 787 fire
Lithium battery shortcomings led to Boeing 787 fire
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The fire on board a Boeing 787 jetliner at Boston airport occurred after one of the aircraft's lithium-ion battery's eight cells experienced an internal short circuit leading to full battery…
Project simplifies multicore software development
Project simplifies multicore software development
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Embedded software increasingly controls vital functions in more or less everything, from vehicles to industrial controls and consumer devices. Reliability and safety risks rise in lockstep with the volume of…
Bluetooth SIG announces Bluetooth 4.2, targets IoT
Bluetooth SIG announces Bluetooth 4.2, targets IoT
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In a bid to establish Bluetooth as the wireless standard for the Internet of Thing, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially adopted version 4.2 of the Bluetooth core…
Flexible multi-touch printed sensors ready ahead of screens
Flexible multi-touch printed sensors ready ahead of screens
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UK start-up R&D CORE has just announced a fully flexible touch screen sensor technology to work with Plastic Logic's flexible display.
Rubber-like coating promises longer lasting rechargeable lithium batteries
Rubber-like coating promises longer lasting rechargeable lithium batteries
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Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the USA's Department of Energy have shown how a coating that makes high capacity silicon electrodes more durable could lead to a…
French-German collaborators claim solar cell efficiency world record
French-German collaborators claim solar cell efficiency world record
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A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been set by a multi-junction solar cell that converts 46% of the solar light into electrical energy.
sureCore Ltd’s low-power SRAM USD1.6 million closer to commercialization
sureCore Ltd’s low-power SRAM USD1.6 million closer to commercialization
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A developer of low-power SRAM IP, startup company sureCore Ltd. has received GBP1 million (USD1.6 million) in Series A funding from Capital-E, Antwerp, Belgium, bringing total start-up funding to USD3.4…
Franco-German team claim solar cell world record
Franco-German team claim solar cell world record
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A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been set by a multi-junction solar cell that converts 46% of the solar light into electrical energy.
Online development tool cuts LED lighting design times
Online development tool cuts LED lighting design times
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Global authorized distributor Mouser Electronics, Inc., the has launched of the company's new Engineering Development Tools Center on Mouser.com .which is a development tool microsite for products such as LED…
The benefits of the coupled inductor technology
The benefits of the coupled inductor technology
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Alexandr Ikriannikov, Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff, Maxim Integrated outlines some of the benefits of using coupled inductor technology.
Electrostatic potential technique harvests more of the sun’s energy
Electrostatic potential technique harvests more of the sun’s energy
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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have taken a first step toward harnessing the energy lost from photovoltaic cells because they can only absorb and use a small…
The coming age of smart factories
The coming age of smart factories
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To compete with low labour cost countries, factories in Europe are looking at the idea of smart factories. Of course the key to all this is internet and wireless technology,…
Gyroscope boasts accuracy that beats MEMS
Gyroscope boasts accuracy that beats MEMS
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Qualtre claims that its latest bulk-acoustic wave (BAW) single-axis gyroscope is the most accurate in the world. Originally licensed from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, Atlanta) the BAW…
Gyroscope accuracy beats MEMS
Gyroscope accuracy beats MEMS
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The most accurate gyroscope in the world, Qualtre Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.) claims, is its newest bulk-acoustic wave (BAW) single-axis gyroscope. Originally licensed from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech,…
AVX’ SMPS capacitor simulation software guides MLCC selection
AVX’ SMPS capacitor simulation software guides MLCC selection
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AVX has released a new version of its SpiCalci simulation software, an engineering tool that calculates performance characteristics and parameters for its switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitors.
Proton-conducting graphene membranes enhances fuel cell performance
Proton-conducting graphene membranes enhances fuel cell performance
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University of Manchester researchers have found graphene, which is impermeable to all gases and liquids, can easily allow protons to pass through it. The discovery could revolutionize fuel cells because…
Toyota adopts LEDs for adaptive high beam technology
Toyota adopts LEDs for adaptive high beam technology
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Toyota Motor Corporation is planning to introduce new models from 2015 which will use an adaptive high beam technology that uses independent LED control to enable more precise control of…
Electrolyte promises cheaper magnesium-sulfur batteries
Electrolyte promises cheaper magnesium-sulfur batteries
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A research team from the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) established by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed an electrolyte for use in the construction of magnesium-sulfur battery cells. Magnesium…
Can smart LED lighting help you farm at home?
Can smart LED lighting help you farm at home?
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Ohneka Farms, a US-based design studio focusing on organic foods, is running a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo to raise $75,000 on an experimental hydroponics solution which uses smart LED lighting…


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