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Flow cell challenges litihium ion
Flow cell challenges litihium ion
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At the Geneva Motor show, Nanoflowcell AG has introduced an electrically driven sports sedan with remarkable features: The vehicle is…
Bluetooth Smart wireless powers Scalextric slot-cars smartphone drive
Bluetooth Smart wireless powers Scalextric slot-cars smartphone drive
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Nordic Semiconductor's ultra low power nRF51822 SoCs have been specified by Scalextric slot-car division of British global toy giant, Hornby…
Nanoflow energy storage challenges lithium ion batteries
Nanoflow energy storage challenges lithium ion batteries
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At the Geneva Motor show, Nanoflowcell AG has introduced an electrically driven sports sedan with remarkable features: The vehicle is…
Scalextric slot-cars get Bluetooth connection to smartphones
Scalextric slot-cars get Bluetooth connection to smartphones
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Nordic Semiconductor's ultra low power nRF51822 SoCs have been specified by Scalextric slot-car division of British global toy giant, Hornby…

Choosing the right technology for long-range M2M — 2G/3G, LTE or Weightless?
Choosing the right technology for long-range M2M — 2G/3G, LTE or Weightless?
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Although M2M is often talked about as if it were a single technology, it is actually an application served by a patchwork of complementary and sometimes competing – technology standards.
Antenna tunes to all mobile bands
Antenna tunes to all mobile bands
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Launched in August of last year, British startup company Smart Antenna Technologies (SAT) announced it has completed a second round of funding to boost product development and its sales and…
Tools and Techniques for Electrical Characterization of Biosensors
Tools and Techniques for Electrical Characterization of Biosensors
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The growing field of bioelectronics has the potential to revolutionize personal healthcare, strengthen security systems, and help safeguard the environment, as well as protect food and water supplies. Emerging nanoscale…
cluster FLEET aims to commercialize flexible OLED encapsulation
cluster FLEET aims to commercialize flexible OLED encapsulation
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Dresden-based cluster FLEET, which is a Fraunhofer initiative focusing on flexible electronics encapsulation technologies, has demonstrated the successful encapsulation of flexible OLED devices using self-adhesive barrier films in a roll-to-roll…
Synthetic ferrimagnet promises energy efficienct thermally induced switching
Synthetic ferrimagnet promises energy efficienct thermally induced switching
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An international team of scientists led by University of York claims to have paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices that offer improved performance and…
Interferometer approach improves bio-sensor sensitivity
Interferometer approach improves bio-sensor sensitivity
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A research team of the Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a label-free biosensor that overcomes the weakness of conventional MEMS-based biosensors for medical and pharmaceutical applications. Utilizing a Fabry-Perot…
Newswatch: Mediatek v Qualcomm – let the duelling commence
Newswatch: Mediatek v Qualcomm – let the duelling commence
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Probably the most interesting aspect of last week's Mobile World Congress event was seeing the first shots being fired in the battle between arguably the most important phone systems vendors…
Xilinx lays grounds for 16nm FPGAs with new architecture
Xilinx lays grounds for 16nm FPGAs with new architecture
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FPGA manufacturer Xilinx who announced last year some test-chips on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, and who is already using 2.5D packaging for its multiple-die 28nm FPGAs, is laying grounds for…
Daimler, Ferrari, Volvo take Apple inside
Daimler, Ferrari, Volvo take Apple inside
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At the Geneva International Motor Show later this week, Apple will introduce an improved approach to integrate its iOS7 mobile devices operating system into vehicles. First customers are Daimler, Ferrari…
Fast or quick, just be better than slow
Fast or quick, just be better than slow
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Dave Freeman of Texas Instruments considers what is in a definition of fast charging rates for powering up batteries in potrable electronic devices.
Cluster FLEET aims to commercialize flexible OLED encapsulation
Cluster FLEET aims to commercialize flexible OLED encapsulation
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Dresden-based cluster FLEET, which is a Fraunhofer initiative focusing on flexible electronics encapsulation technologies, has demonstrated the successful encapsulation of flexible OLED devices using self-adhesive barrier films in a roll-to-roll…
Tuneable antenna does all mobile bands
Tuneable antenna does all mobile bands
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Launched in August of last year, British startup company Smart Antenna Technologies (SAT) announced it has completed a second round of funding to boost product development and its sales and…
Tools and techniques for electrical characterization of biosensors
Tools and techniques for electrical characterization of biosensors
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The growing field of bioelectronics has the potential to revolutionize personal healthcare, strengthen security systems, and help safeguard the environment, as well as protect food and water supplies. Emerging nanoscale…
IBC solar cell achieves efficiency of 24.4 percent
IBC solar cell achieves efficiency of 24.4 percent
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China's Trina Solar has collaborated the Australian National University's (ANU) Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems on the joint development of a new high efficiency solar cell which has achieved an…
What’s best for long-range M2M: 2G/3G, LTE or Weightless?
What’s best for long-range M2M: 2G/3G, LTE or Weightless?
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Although M2M is often talked about as if it were a single technology, it is actually a highly fragmented application space served by a patchwork of complementary and sometimes competing…
Energy harvesting gesture recognition for smartphones and IoT devices
Energy harvesting gesture recognition for smartphones and IoT devices
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Gesture control for electronics could soon become an alternative to touchscreens and sensing technologies that consume a lot of power and only work when users can see their smartphones and…
Energy harvesting gesture recognition is always on
Energy harvesting gesture recognition is always on
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Gesture control for electronics could soon become an alternative to touchscreens and sensing technologies that consume a lot of power and only work when users can see their smartphones and…
NFC tag powers richer user interfaces
NFC tag powers richer user interfaces
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At Embedded World, NXP was demonstrating a new kind NFC tag, the NTAG I2C, offering not only a passive NFC Forum compliant contactless interface but also an I²C contact interface…
Simple PS voltage splitters based on audio amplifiers – Part 2
Simple PS voltage splitters based on audio amplifiers – Part 2
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Petre Petrov offered an overview of voltage splitters and their various implementations in the first part of this article. In the second part he notes some features of audio power…
Using audio amplifiers for voltage splitting: Part 2
Using audio amplifiers for voltage splitting: Part 2
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Petre Petrov offered an overview of voltage splitters and their various implementations in the first part of this article. In the second part he notes some features of audio power…
Energy harvesting switch powers 2.4GHz radio link
Energy harvesting switch powers 2.4GHz radio link
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At Embedded World this week, EnOcean demonstrated that a low cost energy-harvesting switch could power a 2.4GHz radio link, extending the range and versatility of such wireless switches.
Handheld hyperspectral camera to detect skin cancer
Handheld hyperspectral camera to detect skin cancer
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The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a handheld hyperspectral camera for the detection of skin cancers and their precursors.
Dual-mode 5W wireless power receiver enters volume production
Dual-mode 5W wireless power receiver enters volume production
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Texas Instruments has begun volume shipping of what the company claims is industry's smallest, most efficient wireless power receiver to support both the Wireless Power Consortium's (WPC) Qi 1.1 and…
CdTe solar cell grabs conversion efficiency world record
CdTe solar cell grabs conversion efficiency world record
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First Solar, Inc. is claiming to have set a world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell conversion efficiency by busting through the 20 percent barrier to record a…


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