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Hyperbolic metamaterials pave way for high-performance solar cells
Hyperbolic metamaterials pave way for high-performance solar cells
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Researchers at Purdue University claim to have taken a step toward practical applications for 'hyperbolic metamaterials', which are ultra-thin crystalline…
Fiber supercapacitor aims to power wearable devices
Fiber supercapacitor aims to power wearable devices
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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the USA…
Apple super resolution technology clouds flash LED usage
Apple super resolution technology clouds flash LED usage
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Apple has patented a super resolution photo technology that is capable of boosting resolution without the need of adding more…
What exactly is DC power integrity?
What exactly is DC power integrity?
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Benjamin Jordan of Altium considers a challenge that all PCB designers and engineers have to address - DC power integrity.

Apple patents super photo resolution technology, eliminates LED flash
Apple patents super photo resolution technology, eliminates LED flash
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Apple has patented a super resolution photo technology that is capable of boosting resolution without the need of adding more megapixels which may hasten the decline of flash LED usage…
Newswatch – Is induction lighting a gamble worth taking?
Newswatch – Is induction lighting a gamble worth taking?
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Induction technology has re-appeared on the lighting scene again. This time the technology is trying to steal the limelight from LED technology as a lower cost replacement for incandescent lighting.
An introduction to BAW gyroscopes for inertial sensing
An introduction to BAW gyroscopes for inertial sensing
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Authors from Qualtré Inc.provide an introduction to bulk acoustic wave gyroscopes and explain how their company's MEMS manufacturing process can be used to produce inertial sensors today and further integration…
How venting solutions help extend the lifetime of electronic components in cars
How venting solutions help extend the lifetime of electronic components in cars
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Electronic components are playing a vital role in today’s vehicles. It is therefore all the more important that sensitive electronics function reliably despite the extreme temperature differences and rough environmental…
BMW showcases solar charging station for e-cars
BMW showcases solar charging station for e-cars
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With a bundle of technology measures BMW USA demonstrates the ecological possibilities of electromobility: The company has developed a solar-powered carport with charging functionality for renewable energies.
Microsoft proposes LED light positioning system
Microsoft proposes LED light positioning system
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The increased use of LEDs for lighting, with the ability to use them at high modulation rates for communication, could also allow LED lights to act as beacons for positioning…
Are your LEDs electrically overstressed? – Part II
Are your LEDs electrically overstressed? – Part II
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Yankun Fu continues to look at the conditions that can induce electrical overstress (EOS) and catastrophic failure and suggests some ways to minimize the potential for EOS.
Harnessing exciton fission gives solar cell efficiency boost
Harnessing exciton fission gives solar cell efficiency boost
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A team of researchers from MIT has identified a mechanism that they claim will yield new design guidelines for using those special materials to make high-efficiency solar cells.
Microsoft looks at LEDs as beacons for positioning services
Microsoft looks at LEDs as beacons for positioning services
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The increased use of LEDs for lighting, with the ability to use them at high modulation rates for communication, could also allow LED lights to act as beacons for positioning…
Smart tires: Software measures tread depth
Smart tires: Software measures tread depth
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Automotive supplier Continental AG has developed a technique that detects if a tire has insufficient tread depth. The software deduces the actual tread depth from the gradual changes in the…
Performing component verification in the field using a rugged vector network analyzer
Performing component verification in the field using a rugged vector network analyzer
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The installation and maintenance of specialized systems—radio networks, satellite ground stations, radars—often requires in-field verification and adjustment of filters, diplexers, duplexers and antennas. Although the preferred tool is a vector…
On Semi foundry offers mixed-signal IP
On Semi foundry offers mixed-signal IP
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On Semiconductor has announced the availability of qualified circuits for use with its ONC18 CMOS manufacturing process covering mixed-signal sensor peripheral circuits from Sunseeker Engineering Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)…
Induction light bulb poses low-cost challenge to LED
Induction light bulb poses low-cost challenge to LED
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The first energy-efficient A type light bulb that makes use of induction technology to replicate the warm and reassuring glow of the now-banned incandescent bulbs has been unveiled by The…
Theory could enable much cheaper terahertz imaging
Theory could enable much cheaper terahertz imaging
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In the latest issue of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, researchers in MIT's Research Laboratory for Electronics describe a new technique that could reduce the number of sensors required…
Are we being dumb with smart lighting?
Are we being dumb with smart lighting?
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Quite often the best of intentions have the opposite impact and innovations such as LED lighting could actually encourage the wrong outcome with some profound untoward consequences.
Can molecularly stretchable materials provide low cost energy?
Can molecularly stretchable materials provide low cost energy?
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Several new discoveries by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego are helping to reveal what might be possible if semiconductor materials were flexible and stretchable without sacrificing electronic…
Magnetic fields from electric cars pose no danger
Magnetic fields from electric cars pose no danger
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Drivers and passengers can feel safe from magnetic fields generated by electric-powered cars according to the findings of researchers from seven countries and led by SINTEF, the largest independent research…
PERC solar cell breaks conversion efficiency barrier
PERC solar cell breaks conversion efficiency barrier
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The Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) has increased the conversion efficiency of industrial p–type silicon solar cells with screen-printed metal contacts to a record value of 21.2%.
Simplifying solar-based battery charging
Simplifying solar-based battery charging
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Steve Knoth, Senior Product Marketing Engineer, Power Products Group and Albert Wu, Design Manager, Power Products Group, Linear Technology Corporation explains how a buck-boost solar powered battery charging controller can…
Newswatch: 2D materials make graphene technology transfer a reality
Newswatch: 2D materials make graphene technology transfer a reality
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have shown how they can control the properties of stacks of two-dimensional materials to open up opportunities for innovative solar cells, tunnelling transistors and…
Sonar drives gesture recognition startup
Sonar drives gesture recognition startup
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Startup Chirp Microsystems Inc. (Albany, Calif.) was founded late in 2013 to commercialize research into the use of a piezoelectric ultrasound transducer array to capture depth information and gesture recognition.
Handbook of current sensing in DC power – Part one
Handbook of current sensing in DC power – Part one
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In this short handbook Petre Petrov examines several simple circuits of current sensing in power supply lines because the current sensing is obligatory for monitoring procedures. …
Short handbook of current sensing in power DC supply lines – Part one
Short handbook of current sensing in power DC supply lines – Part one
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In this short handbook Petre Petrov examines several simple circuits of current sensing in power supply lines because the current sensing is obligatory for monitoring procedures.  …
Startup uses ultrasound for low energy gesture recognition
Startup uses ultrasound for low energy gesture recognition
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Startup Chirp Microsystems (Albany, California) was founded late in 2013 to commercialize research into the use of a piezoelectric ultrasound transducer array to capture depth information and gesture recognition.


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