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Trends in the smart card payment industry — chip innovations drive new applications and services
Trends in the smart card payment industry — chip innovations drive new applications and services
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To an ever increasing extent, modern society is benefiting from the use of connected mobile devices and chip-based smart cards…
Conductor discovery reduces lithium ion battery fire risk
Conductor discovery reduces lithium ion battery fire risk
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A team of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan has created a new type of lithium ion conductor for future…
Pill dispenser stalks careless patients
Pill dispenser stalks careless patients
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Expanding the IoT sphere, the latest generation of pill dispensers developed by MedMinder has been designed to track medication intake,…
Power Tip 71: Synchronous boost labors the high-to-low transition
Power Tip 71: Synchronous boost labors the high-to-low transition
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Robert Kollman, Senior Applications Manager, Texas Instruments explains why the synchronous boost labors to handle the high-to-low transition.

Structural supercapacitor could let objects be batteries
Structural supercapacitor could let objects be batteries
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical charge while subject to stresses or pressures up to 44 psi and vibrational accelerations more than…
Allergic reaction to smartphones studied
Allergic reaction to smartphones studied
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Is it possible to be allergic to a smartphone? Apparently, studies have identified mobile phones and related devices as sources of metal sensitization and potential causes of allergic contact dermatitis…
Patients get help with prescription compliance from smart pill dispenser
Patients get help with prescription compliance from smart pill dispenser
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Expanding the IoT sphere, the latest generation of pill dispensers developed by MedMinder has been designed to track medication intake, sends medical alerts, orders refills and improves prescription compliance.
Mixing quick and conventional charging protects EV batteries
Mixing quick and conventional charging protects EV batteries
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A combination of quick and conventional charging is ideal for electric vehicle battery performance is the conclusion of the RheinMobil electric mobility project after about 120,000 km of practical evaluation…
Novel supercapacitor architecture provides 2x more power performance
Novel supercapacitor architecture provides 2x more power performance
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A novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon graphene foam architecture that is claimed to provide two times more energy and power compared to supercapacitors has been developed by researchers…
3D STEP files support IGBT gate driver designs
3D STEP files support IGBT gate driver designs
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IGBT driver manufacturer CT-Concept Technologie GmbH, a Power Integrations company, has released 3D STEP files of all the company's SCALE-2 IGBT gate drivers are now available to help designers model…
Host Card Emulation goes white-label
Host Card Emulation goes white-label
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Shortly after its acquisition of Metaforic, INSIDE Secure is to accelerate the adoption of mobile-based payments with the launch of a white-label Android application for Host Card Emulation (HCE).
Battery electrode material mystery is visualized for first time
Battery electrode material mystery is visualized for first time
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A MIT-led team of researchers has produced the first detailed visualization - down to the level of individual atoms - of exactly how sodium manganese dioxide, a promising electrode used…
How to automate SoC current measurements
How to automate SoC current measurements
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Love Gupta , Pankaj Kumar, Neeraj Jain and Gangadhar Mada examine how to automate current measurements when characterizing SoCs.
Automate current measurements when characterizing SoCs
Automate current measurements when characterizing SoCs
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Love Gupta , Pankaj Kumar, Neeraj Jain and Gangadhar Mada examine how to automate current measurements when characterizing SoCs.
Silicon dioxide nanotubes help batteries last 3x longer
Silicon dioxide nanotubes help batteries last 3x longer
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have used a material found in surgical tubing to develop a way to make lithium-ion batteries that last three…
Tactile skin gives prosthetics and robots a flexible touch
Tactile skin gives prosthetics and robots a flexible touch
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Under its Fellowship for Growth programme, the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has just granted £1.07 million of funding to support the creation of ultra-flexible tactile skin…
Considerations When Specifying a DC Power Supply
Considerations When Specifying a DC Power Supply
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Every automated test system that tests electronic circuit boards, modules or equipment needs one or more DC power supplies. DC supplies provide power to the device under test as well…
Terahertz power meter: High accuracy through calorimeter principle
Terahertz power meter: High accuracy through calorimeter principle
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In most application fields, an accuracy of ±8% might not be overwhelming, but when it comes to terahertz (THz) field strength, ±8% is impressive. Chip test equipment manufacturer Advantest now…
Polarised light measures rotation angle
Polarised light measures rotation angle
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Rotation angle sensors help users determining the position of a moving body relative to an axis. Such sensors are used in thousands of applications in mechatronics, machine building, aviation and…
Terahertz power meter offers high accuracy
Terahertz power meter offers high accuracy
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In most application fields, an accuracy of ±8% might not be overwhelming, but when it comes to terahertz (THz) field strength, ±8% is impressive. Chip test equipment manufacturer Advantest now…
Why Designing an FPGA makes a Difference for Automotive Engineers
Why Designing an FPGA makes a Difference for Automotive Engineers
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While automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers already appreciate the abundant technical advantages of FPGAs and All Programmable SoCs – computational power, architectural flexibility and scalability – many of them still…
Failsafe multichip LED module driver
Failsafe multichip LED module driver
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Subodh Johri considers a design idea for failsafe multichip LED module driver.
Is LTE the better V2X technology?
Is LTE the better V2X technology?
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During the recent GSA meeting in Munich, the perspectives of Vehicle-to-X technologies were one of the topics for a keynote speech. Dirk Lindemeier, Head of Liquid Applications at Nokia Solutions…
UL streamlines global certification for portable LED luminaires
UL streamlines global certification for portable LED luminaires
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Global safety organization, UL has introduced a new global certification program for portable luminaires, the most popular type of LED luminaires.
Piezoelectric energy harvesters get a lift
Piezoelectric energy harvesters get a lift
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Scientists at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have paved the way for the commercialization of nanogenerators by developing a technique to transfer a piezoelectric thin film…
UK leads quantum sensor development
UK leads quantum sensor development
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The UK believes it has a major global lead in the development of quantum clocks and sensors for navigation.
Thin-film nanogenerators on their way to commercialization
Thin-film nanogenerators on their way to commercialization
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Scientists at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have paved the way for the commercialization of nanogenerators by developing a technique to transfer a piezoelectric thin film…
Piezoelectric nanogenerator efficiency gain drives commercialization advance
Piezoelectric nanogenerator efficiency gain drives commercialization advance
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Scientists at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have paved the way for the commercialization of nanogenerators by developing a technique to transfer a piezoelectric thin film…


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