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Organic tin-based semiconducting polymers show solar cell promise
Organic tin-based semiconducting polymers show solar cell promise
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Researchers of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU), Germany, claim to have successfully integrated organic tin into semiconducting polymers (plastics) for…
ON Semiconductor partners Transphorm to develop GaN power solutions
ON Semiconductor partners Transphorm to develop GaN power solutions
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ON Semiconductor has formed a partnership with power conversion specialist Transphorm to co-develop and co-market gallium nitride (GaN) based products…
Thin-film PV achieves world-beating 21.7 percent efficiency
Thin-film PV achieves world-beating 21.7 percent efficiency
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The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) has claimed a new world record in thin-film photovoltaics by…
Low-cost transistor points to ‘greener’ flexible electronics
Low-cost transistor points to ‘greener’ flexible electronics
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The next generation of low-cost roll-up displays has taken a step closer according to a team of researchers from the…

Nanotechnology innovation promises cheaper, clearer LEDs
Nanotechnology innovation promises cheaper, clearer LEDs
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Princeton University researchers have developed a new method of increasing the brightness, efficiency and clarity of LEDs used on smartphones and portable electronics as well as for lighting applications.
Wembley transforms fan experience with interactive LED lighting solution
Wembley transforms fan experience with interactive LED lighting solution
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London's Wembley stadium with the help of EE, the UK advanced digital communications company, has installed what is claimed to be the world's fastest interactive LED lighting system onto the…
Nanium takes wafer-level packaging to XXL
Nanium takes wafer-level packaging to XXL
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Nanium S.A. has unveiled what the company believes is the industry's largest Wafer-Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP), a 25x23mm packaging solution produced in volume on 300mm wafers.
Tire sensor for industrial trucks solves a burning problem
Tire sensor for industrial trucks solves a burning problem
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Tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) are state of the art in tires for cars and trucks. But how about tires for industrial material handling vehicles? A research project of the…
IoT for cleaner air
IoT for cleaner air
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With its “In the Air” challenge, element14 invites all of its electronic design community to create innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions to measure pollution and relay that information efficiently to enable…
16nm FinFET technology; TSMC fabs fully-functional networking processor
16nm FinFET technology; TSMC fabs fully-functional networking processor
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TSMC in collaboration with HiSilicon Technologies (Shenzhen, China) has announced that it has produced the foundry segment’s first fully-functional ARM-based networking processor with FinFET technology.
Autosar reference integration already contains future features
Autosar reference integration already contains future features
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For a reference integration of BMW's “BAC4 Release 2” Autosar Core, software vendor Vector Informatik provides its Autosar basic software implementation 'Microsar' to BMW. It already contains the new functions…
LTE successfully tested in V2X scenario
LTE successfully tested in V2X scenario
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4G mobile radio technology, also known as LTE, meets the tough real-time requirements to be deployed in Vehicle-to-X communications applications. This broadens the spectrum of available wireless technologies suited for…
Image sensing technology can detect Alzheimer disease
Image sensing technology can detect Alzheimer disease
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A team of researchers from a Tokyo university has developed a semiconductor-imaging based medical diagnosis biosensing system that enables physicians to detect Alzheimer disease and diabetes in an early stage.
Reflections from smartphone transmissions enable gesture control
Reflections from smartphone transmissions enable gesture control
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Phone manufacturers have been looking at going beyond touchscreens in smartphones with the ability to interact with our smartphone through gestures in the space around the phone. Some smartphones are…
ST adds piezoelectric MEMS to process portfolio
ST adds piezoelectric MEMS to process portfolio
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STMicroelectronics has developed a thin-film piezoelectric MEMS process platform that it is now commercializing, with volume ramp-up scheduled for mid-2015.
CCD-based biosensor aids diabetes, Alzheimer’s diagnosis
CCD-based biosensor aids diabetes, Alzheimer’s diagnosis
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A semiconductor image sensor has been adapted for the analysis of blood samples and has proved effective for the early diagnosis of diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Apps as driver assistant systems
Apps as driver assistant systems
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An innovative approach from Siemens provides for a centralised, powerful computing resource in vehicles, replacing dozens of ECUs and control units distributed over the car. The benefit: Essential functions such…
Startup’s piezoelectric MEMS mics show superior dynamic range
Startup’s piezoelectric MEMS mics show superior dynamic range
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The high-performance microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone market is about to be one upped by a startup - Vesper Technologies Inc. (Boston) - using piezoelectric materials to achieve a 70dB signal-to-noise…
Startup’s piezoelectric MEMS mics may take over
Startup’s piezoelectric MEMS mics may take over
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The high-performance microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone market is about to be one upped by a startup - Vesper Technologies Inc. (Boston) - using piezoelectric materials to achieve a 70dB signal-to-noise…
Liquid batteries could make renewables more competitive
Liquid batteries could make renewables more competitive
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Researchers at MIT are claiming to have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants.
Can a liquid battery make renewables more competitive?
Can a liquid battery make renewables more competitive?
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Researchers at MIT are claiming to have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants.
Centralised architecture: Apps as driver assistant systems
Centralised architecture: Apps as driver assistant systems
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An innovative approach from Siemens provides for a centralised, powerful computing resource in vehicles, replacing dozens of ECUs and control units distributed over the car. The benefit: Essential functions such…
Harvesting every bite of energy
Harvesting every bite of energy
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Researchers, from Sonomax-ÉTS Industrial Research Chair in In-ear Technologies (CRITIAS) at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, Canada, have created an energy harvesting chinstrap made from piezoelectric fibre composites…
Breaking the ‘electrode barrier’ promises lower-cost organic PVs
Breaking the ‘electrode barrier’ promises lower-cost organic PVs
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have claimed to have developed a more efficient, easily processable and lightweight solar cell that can use virtually any…
Using IGBT thermal calculations to optimize power designs
Using IGBT thermal calculations to optimize power designs
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Alan Ball outlines how to use IGBT thermal calculations to optimize power designs.
Nuclear spins shown to control current in LED
Nuclear spins shown to control current in LED
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University of Utah physicists claim to have read the subatomic 'spins' in the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes and used the data to control the current powering light in a plastic…
What Apple stuffed inside iPhone 6 plus
What Apple stuffed inside iPhone 6 plus
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Love it or hate it, there's no question that Apple's iPhone line is popular, and while the numbers haven't officially been announced yet, the company has already broken its record…
Polymer solar cell boosts power generation by 15 percent
Polymer solar cell boosts power generation by 15 percent
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Scientists in the University of Chicago’s chemistry department, the Institute for Molecular Engineering and Argonne National Laboratory have shed new light on solar power generation using devices made with polymers.


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