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World’s most compact high-speed electro-optic modulator saves energy
World’s most compact high-speed electro-optic modulator saves energy
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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed an electro-optical converter of 29 µm in length, which converts signals…
Samsung reveals LED components for advanced mobile devices
Samsung reveals LED components for advanced mobile devices
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has unveiled a range of LED component solutions for use in advanced mobile devices such as…
Body motion drives implantable energy harvester
Body motion drives implantable energy harvester
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Researchers from A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, have demonstrated a new MEMS-based energy harvesting concept that could harness low…
Ultra-compact yellow LED opens headlamp design horizons
Ultra-compact yellow LED opens headlamp design horizons
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Osram has developed the yellow Oslon Compact LED which the company claims will open up new design options for turn…

79 GHz radar transmitter implemented in plain 28nm CMOS claims world first
79 GHz radar transmitter implemented in plain 28nm CMOS claims world first
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Imec, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, cliams to present the first 79 GHz radar transmitter implemented in plain digital 28nm CMOS.
Is intelligent in-store lighting the ultimate personal shopper?
Is intelligent in-store lighting the ultimate personal shopper?
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Philips is demonstrating an intelligent lighting system that re-defines the concept of personalized shopping at Euroshop, the world’s leading retail show in Düsseldorf, Germany. The intelligent LED in-store lighting system…
High efficiency spotlight exhibits retail potential
High efficiency spotlight exhibits retail potential
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Osram has unveiled a spotlight that brings the quality of museum illumination to help retailers win over their customers. The Lunis 2 Track spot is based on a LED luminaire…
Lost in big data: digital zombies
Lost in big data: digital zombies
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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is what gets everyone excited these days, with double digit market growth expectations for an industry that could see tens of billions of connected nodes in the…
The use of audio amplifiers for voltage splitting
The use of audio amplifiers for voltage splitting
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Petre Petrov describes several voltage splitters built around PAAs. This is not a typical application of the PAAs which are normally optimized for operation in the audio frequency range and…
World’s most powerful terahertz laser chip
World’s most powerful terahertz laser chip
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University of Leeds researchers claim to have built world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip. The device is capable of exceeding a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz…
Pomegranate inspires silicon anode breakthrough for lithium-ion batteries
Pomegranate inspires silicon anode breakthrough for lithium-ion batteries
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The humble pomegranate has proved to be an inspiration for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries according to researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator…
Simple PS voltage splitters based on audio amplifiers
Simple PS voltage splitters based on audio amplifiers
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Petre Petrov describes several voltage splitters built around PAAs. This is not a typical application of the PAAs which are normally optimized for operation in the audio frequency range and…
Choosing a voltage reference
Choosing a voltage reference
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Brian Black Product Marketing Manager, Signal Conditioning Products, Linear Technology…
‘Artificlal graphene’ breakthrough enables material to be tailored to each specific task
‘Artificlal graphene’ breakthrough enables material to be tailored to each specific task
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A recent article in Physical Review X describes an artificial 2D material that behaves electronically like graphene or a topological-insulator. For the first time, scientists have been able to produce…
Artificial graphene-like 2D materials get tunable
Artificial graphene-like 2D materials get tunable
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A recent article in Physical Review X describes an artificial 2D material that behaves electronically like graphene or a topological-insulator. For the first time, scientists have been able to produce…
Lost in Big Data: digital zombies
Lost in Big Data: digital zombies
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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is what gets everyone excited these days, with double digit market growth expectations for an industry that could see tens of billions of connected nodes in the…
Microsoft preps next time-of-flight sensor for Kinect
Microsoft preps next time-of-flight sensor for Kinect
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Engineers from software and games console vendor Microsoft Corp. presented a time-of-flight image sensor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco last week.
1W terahertz laser chip opens up mobile
1W terahertz laser chip opens up mobile
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University of Leeds researchers have built the world’s most powerful terahertz laser chip to date, aiming at portable applications.
Pomegranate inspires silicon anode breakthough for lithium-ion batteries
Pomegranate inspires silicon anode breakthough for lithium-ion batteries
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The humble pomegranate has proved to be an inspiration for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries according to researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator…
How to design an efficient MEMS-based pico-projector
How to design an efficient MEMS-based pico-projector
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Carlos Lopez of Texas Instruments considers how to design an efficient MeMS-based pico-projector.
3D textile delivers powerful piezoelectric energy harvesting benefits
3D textile delivers powerful piezoelectric energy harvesting benefits
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3D textile structures using piezoelectric energy harvesting fibers have been developed by researchers at the University of Bolton which could lead to energy harnessing carpets or mobile devices, like phones…
Daimler S-class comes with MOST150
Daimler S-class comes with MOST150
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Daimler has it on the street: The company's new Mercedes S-Class rolls along with the latest MOST infotainment data bus generation inside. The company now will introduce this technology gradually…
Android smartphones double battery life with audio tunneling
Android smartphones double battery life with audio tunneling
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Android 4.4 KitKat adds platform support for audio tunneling to a digital signal processor (DSP) in the device chipset, which means the audio decoding and output effects are off-loaded to…
How to design an efficient MeMS-based pico-projector
How to design an efficient MeMS-based pico-projector
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Carlos Lopez of Texas Instruments considers how to design an efficient MeMS-based pico-projector.
Woven piezoelectric yarns lead to 3D textile energy harvester
Woven piezoelectric yarns lead to 3D textile energy harvester
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3D textile structures using piezoelectric energy harvesting fibers have been developed by researchers at the University of Bolton which could lead to energy harnessing carpets or mobile devices, like phones…
Apple patents flexible OLED display for bezel-free devices
Apple patents flexible OLED display for bezel-free devices
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A new flexible OLED display patent has been filed this week by Apple which has sparked rumours that the company is developing a bezel-free iPhone display.
VTT develops printable e-nose sensor
VTT develops printable e-nose sensor
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Set up as a 3-year research project, the European consortium PHOTOSENS achieved its original goal to develop low-cost, mass-producible polymer-based nanophotonic sensors for air quality, pharmaceutical process cleanliness and food…
Digital power controller aims to accelerate street-light conversions
Digital power controller aims to accelerate street-light conversions
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a configurable solution to develop and efficiently control a dimmable, high-brightness LED string (up to 100W) for street-lighting applications.


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