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Smart sensors offer haptic feedback
Smart sensors offer haptic feedback
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Fraunhofer ISC's Centre for Smart Materials (CeSMa) has demonstrated smart materials that can be used to create intelligent sensors with…
Micro sensor monitors properties of liquids
Micro sensor monitors properties of liquids
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The Vienna Technical University is developing sensors that can measure the quality of lubricants. The devices utilize a microchip aluminium…
Micro sensor monitors condition of liquids
Micro sensor monitors condition of liquids
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The Vienna Technical University is developing sensors that can measure the quality of lubricants. The devices utilize a microchip aluminium…
‘CrispWhite’ COB LED arrays provide retail impact
‘CrispWhite’ COB LED arrays provide retail impact
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Philips Lumileds has launched a family of COB LED arrays that the company has termed 'CrispWhite Technology' which have been…

Micro sensor monitors conditions of lubricants
Micro sensor monitors conditions of lubricants
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The Vienna Technical University is developing sensors that can measure the quality of lubricants. The devices utilize a microchip aluminium nitride cantilever that gets caused to vibrate. The mechanical resistance…
Rollable OLED panel targets 60-inch Ultra HD TVs
Rollable OLED panel targets 60-inch Ultra HD TVs
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LG Display has developed a 18-inch flexible OLED panel that is rollable as well as a 18-inch transparent OLED panel and shows that the company is close to introducing rollable…
65V Synchronous Buck Converters with Ultralow IQ
65V Synchronous Buck Converters with Ultralow IQ
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Power ICs are increasingly playing a pivotal role in the car. Besides high efficiency and low EMI emission, they have to supply complex circuitry - and multiple voltage levels. This…
RPCVD p-GaN offers 10-fold improvement in LED efficiency
RPCVD p-GaN offers 10-fold improvement in LED efficiency
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Australian Cleantech company, BluGlass Limited, has demonstrated the best ever p-GaN light output using the company's propriety technology, Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (RPCVD) on an MOCVD partial LED structure.
Tutorial: How to think in dB
Tutorial: How to think in dB
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The dB (decibel) is one of the most common units in engineering, yet also one of the most confusing, especially when it comes to manipulating S-parameters. Here is how not…
Researchers push atomic-scale circuitry for smaller, greener electronics
Researchers push atomic-scale circuitry for smaller, greener electronics
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Technological shrinkage can only go so far when using traditional transistor-based integrated circuits. Consequently, in the drive to get small, Robert Wolkow and his lab at the University of Alberta…
Project pushes gigabit data rates over copper telephone lines
Project pushes gigabit data rates over copper telephone lines
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The next milestone in the build-out of the broadband access network is called Fiber-To-The-Distribution Point (FTTdp).
Surfer triples Li-ion battery performance with sandy solution
Surfer triples Li-ion battery performance with sandy solution
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Sand has been used by researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering to create a lithium ion battery that claims to outperform the industry standard by…
OPVs embedded in glass offer operating life benefits
OPVs embedded in glass offer operating life benefits
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Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam, Germany, are working with an organic photovoltaics (OPVs) carrier material that extends operating life by using a flexible…
When GND isn’t GND single-ended circuits become differential
When GND isn’t GND single-ended circuits become differential
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The Precision Hub from Texas Instruments advocates the use of star grounding to make sure that what you think is ground really is ground…
Silicon sponge extends battery performance by 30 percent
Silicon sponge extends battery performance by 30 percent
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a porous, sponge-like nanomaterial made of silicon that could help lithium-ion batteries run longer on a single charge by giving the…
Inductive charging takes shape at BMW and Daimler
Inductive charging takes shape at BMW and Daimler
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BMW has granted an insight to its development of inductive charging schemes for electric vehicles. In the medium term, the company plans to launch series production for the technology. The…
Controller advance makes robots consume 40-percent less power
Controller advance makes robots consume 40-percent less power
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A researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has demonstrated that power consumption of robot joints could be reduced by 40% by modifying how digital controllers operate.
Security vulnerability of smart bulbs is revealed
Security vulnerability of smart bulbs is revealed
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A security weakness in the startup electronics company LIFX smart LED light bulbs has been revealed by U.K. based research company Context Information Security.
Power Tip 72: Select the right rectifiers for multiple output flybacks
Power Tip 72: Select the right rectifiers for multiple output flybacks
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments examines the impacts of cross regulation over load and temperature, efficiency, and transformer design in a flyback with a 3.3 V/0.5 A and a 5…
Robot truck concept from Daimler
Robot truck concept from Daimler
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Carmaker Daimler has introduced a concept called "Future Truck 2025" that calls for autonomous freight traffic on the road within ten years. A test vehicle, the Mercedes Future Truck 2025,…
German research merger to extend OLED micro-display developments
German research merger to extend OLED micro-display developments
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Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is merging its Fraunhofer COMEDD and Fraunhofer FEP research establishments and will concentrate the two organizations' combined knowledge and expertise at one location in…
Understanding LTE, inside and out
Understanding LTE, inside and out
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LTE expansion continues at a rapid pace. Competition is particularly high in markets like the UK, France and Germany where operators are launching commercial 4G services, offering exclusive new devices…
Dual 13A or single 26A μModule regulator integrates digital power system management
Dual 13A or single 26A μModule regulator integrates digital power system management
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Datacenters and server farms contain vast amounts of digital electronics, such as ASICs, FPGAs and CPUs. Powering, monitoring and managing power consumption at every node—down to the board level—is a…
Daimler introduces robot truck concept
Daimler introduces robot truck concept
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A large truck at full speed on the highway, and the driver is reading newspaper? What in the past was a certain recipe for a horror accident could be an…
IBM pledges nanotube transistor by 2020 or bust
IBM pledges nanotube transistor by 2020 or bust
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For over two decades IBM has tried nearly every possible way to a make a tiny 1.4-nanometer carbon nanotube the successor to the silicon transistor channel.
LED-based luminous textiles enhance retail environments
LED-based luminous textiles enhance retail environments
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Philips has unveiled the world’s largest installation using luminous textiles, measuring 37 m2 at the Centrum Galerie shopping mall in Dresden, Germany.
Hollow glass fibres offer new applications in spectroscopy
Hollow glass fibres offer new applications in spectroscopy
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While fibre optics in telecommunications engineering mostly use infrared light, there are some applications that require light in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, and these applications are mostly in…
Linaro’s Android Open Source Project port for ARMv8-A now running
Linaro’s Android Open Source Project port for ARMv8-A now running
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Following the recent announcement of the Android L Developer Preview supporting the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture, Linaro, the collaborative engineering organisation developing open source software for the ARM architecture, has announced…


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