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Researchers discover how beryllium causes deadly lung disease
Researchers discover how beryllium causes deadly lung disease
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Beryllium is fairly common in the mobile industry and for many years there has been a fair amount of controversy…
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…
Keeping electronics from overheating with nanoparticles
Keeping electronics from overheating with nanoparticles
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Researchers from University of Malaya and Universiti Brunei Darussalam are reporting in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research…
4K Ultra HDTV features high color-space LED backlight
4K Ultra HDTV features high color-space LED backlight
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Panasonic has revealed pricing and availability details of the company' 2014 Life+Screen AX800 Series 4K Ultra HDTVs.

VTT depth camera tracks shoppers
VTT depth camera tracks shoppers
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In paper titled “Shopper Behaviour Analysis Based on 3D Situation Awareness Information” due to be presented during the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (in Stockholm, Sweden, next August), researchers…
Wireless multicore chip offers data farm energy savings
Wireless multicore chip offers data farm energy savings
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A wireless network on a computer chip that claims to be able to reduce energy consumption at data farms by as much as 20 percent has been developed by Washington…
£15m for four UK University technology Enterprise Zones
£15m for four UK University technology Enterprise Zones
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The UK government is spending £15m to set up Enterprise Zones for technology at four universities.
Depth cameras interpret shoppers’ behaviour
Depth cameras interpret shoppers’ behaviour
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In paper titled “Shopper Behaviour Analysis Based on 3D Situation Awareness Information” due to be presented during the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (in Stockholm, Sweden, next August), researchers…
Researchers devise high-capacity supercaps for cars
Researchers devise high-capacity supercaps for cars
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Despite their good ecological footprint, battery electric cars have a number of properties that make them not exactly the most attractive alternative to the conventional vehicles: Unaffordable prices, short driving…
Processing horsepower for the convergence of data streams
Processing horsepower for the convergence of data streams
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Renesas Electronics’ second-generation R-Car range is the company’s response to the growing demand for automotive-enabled system-on-chip (SoC) processors for driver infotainment and assistance systems. With more than 25,000 Dhrystone MIPS…
Measure power semiconductor capacitances in real-world conditions
Measure power semiconductor capacitances in real-world conditions
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Agilent Technologies has introduced the first power device capacitance analyser that automatically characterises power device junction capacitances using real operating voltages.
OpenCL cuts FPGA prototyping time to minutes
OpenCL cuts FPGA prototyping time to minutes
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Altera is using the OpenCL language to allow developers to quickly prototype algorithms on FPGAs in C.
Finnish project focuses on energy storage for renewables
Finnish project focuses on energy storage for renewables
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has joined forces with Lappeenranta University of Technology and the Finland Futures Research Centre at the University of Turku to launch a development project…
EnOcean Alliance specifies intelligent commissioning of smart buildings
EnOcean Alliance specifies intelligent commissioning of smart buildings
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The EnOcean Alliance has defined a unified specification for remote commissioning of energy harvesting wireless devices in building automation systems to optimise and ease the control and configuration of building…
Mind the gap: the future for indoor wireless
Mind the gap: the future for indoor wireless
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Research indicates that 80 percent of mobile connections are made inside buildings. Yet, of the approximately 30 billion square meters of commercial real estate in use today globally, only around…
Inspection tool enables quality control of SiC epiwafers
Inspection tool enables quality control of SiC epiwafers
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Silicon Carbide (SiC) is one of the materials that stimulate the phantasy and hopes of semiconductor engineers: SiC enables highly efficient, high-temperature power transistors. A Defect Luminesence Scanner (DLS), developed…
Digital control unveils a new epoch in PFC design
Digital control unveils a new epoch in PFC design
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Bosheng Sun of Texas Instruments describes several novel and practical methods to address total harmonic injection (THD), individual harmonics magnitude, power factor (PF), efficiency, and total solution cost.
Nanofiber unleashes storage capacity potential of lithium-sulfur batteries
Nanofiber unleashes storage capacity potential of lithium-sulfur batteries
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Researchers at the NIM Cluster at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, Germany and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, have synthesized a nanofiber material that could point the way…
DC power grid taps electronic circuit breaker research
DC power grid taps electronic circuit breaker research
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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is injecting Euro 2.3 million into a research project aimed at investigating the foundations of an innovative semiconductor-based and completely electronic…
Lighting control relay offers high inrush current capability
Lighting control relay offers high inrush current capability
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Omron Electronic Components Europe has introduced two energy saving latching relays featuring the capacity to handle the high inrush currents associated with lighting control applications.
Satellite equipment maker launches own chipset
Satellite equipment maker launches own chipset
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A leading UK satellite equipment maker is branching out by selling its own chipset for distributing satellite TV through buildings.
Universal Display pursues PHOLED collaboration with BOE Technology
Universal Display pursues PHOLED collaboration with BOE Technology
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Universal Display Corporation has reached an expanded evaluation agreement with BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., which will broaden Universal Display's collaboration with BOE and supply additional efficient phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED)…
DC power grid taps electronic circuit breaker research
DC power grid taps electronic circuit breaker research
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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is injecting Euro 2.3 million into a research project aimed at investigating the foundations of an innovative semiconductor-based and completely electronic…
High voltage recuperation heater drives EV power savings
High voltage recuperation heater drives EV power savings
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REO UK has launched a high voltage recuperation heater that claims to offer efficiency improvements to thermal management systems used in electric vehicles (EVs).
Smart composites self-monitor via embedded optical-fibres
Smart composites self-monitor via embedded optical-fibres
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Nanoelectronics research center imec, Ghent University, and their partners in the European FP7 project SMARTFIBER have demonstrated the world’s first miniaturised fibre-optical sensor system than can be fully embedded in…
Magnetically responsive liquid crystals enable novel display applications
Magnetically responsive liquid crystals enable novel display applications
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Scientiists at the University of California, Riverside have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field and paving the way…
Flexible, future-proof PXIe vector signal analyzer covers 1 MHz to 3 GHz or 6 GHz
Flexible, future-proof PXIe vector signal analyzer covers 1 MHz to 3 GHz or 6 GHz
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In this video learn about Agilent's M9391A PXIe Vector Signal Analyzer which covers 1 MHz to 3 GHz or 6 GHz and provides 40 MHz (standard), 100, or 160 MHz…
Sensing elements for current measurements – Part 2
Sensing elements for current measurements – Part 2
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Ryan Roderick of Intersil in Part 2 of this series explains how to design a DCR circuit for power applications and analyzes the drawbacks of the architecture as well as…


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