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4.8-inch AMOLED ultra-thin smartphone hits the streets
4.8-inch AMOLED ultra-thin smartphone hits the streets
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One of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world, BLU Products, has begun shipping a smartphone which the…
E-whiskers could turn robots hairy
E-whiskers could turn robots hairy
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Bio-inspired robotics often yields interesting new approaches to locomotion, sensing and obstacle avoidance.
Smartphone displays to benefit from Bendable glass
Smartphone displays to benefit from Bendable glass
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Apple already use Gorilla glass to provide scratch resistance to their smartphone displays but the glass will still shatter upon…
Conductivity fine tuning of graphene oxide promises savings
Conductivity fine tuning of graphene oxide promises savings
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Researchers at at Japan's World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) are developing a way to fine tune the…

Medical, industrial measurements targeted by single-channel A/D collection
Medical, industrial measurements targeted by single-channel A/D collection
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Texas Instruments’ SAR (successive approximation register) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) product portfolio gains 12 devices that provide widest analogue supply and common-mode voltage ranges and that come with six reference designs…
Graphene oxide’s conductivity fine tuned on demand
Graphene oxide’s conductivity fine tuned on demand
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Researchers at at Japan's World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) are developing a way to fine tune the conductivity of super-strong graphene oxide (GO) sheets within electronic components.
Focus on PV integration into European distribution grids
Focus on PV integration into European distribution grids
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The Europe-wide PV GRID consortium has released a consultation document that contains key recommendations for the adoption of technical solutions to ease the integration of photovoltaics (PV) into the distribution…
Break through in e-car battery technology ahead?
Break through in e-car battery technology ahead?
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NanoFlowCell AG, an arcane company from the tiny state of Liechtenstein, plans to introduce an electric vehicle equipped with an innovative fuel cell technology at the imminent Geneva International Motor…
Bendable glass could toughen up smartphones
Bendable glass could toughen up smartphones
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Apple already use Gorilla glass to provide scratch resistance to their smartphone displays but the glass will still shatter upon impact. There are also numerous rumors that Apple are considering…
Break-through in e-car battery technology ahead?
Break-through in e-car battery technology ahead?
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NanoFlowCell AG, an arcane company from the tiny state of Liechtenstein, plans introduce an electric vehicle equipped with an innovative fuel cell technology at the imminent Geneva International Motor Show.
Facebook attracts server startups
Facebook attracts server startups
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Servergy Inc. and Rex Computing debuted low power server architectures using Power and Adapteva processors, respectively, at the Facebook-led Open Compute Summit.
Five technology trends for 2014
Five technology trends for 2014
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National Instruments is highlighting five key trends for engineers in 2014, from control systems to RF and user interfaces:…
System-on-module optimizes power line communications
System-on-module optimizes power line communications
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Texas Instruments has collaborated with Tailyn Technologies to offer a field-tested PLC module that can be customized in terms of form factors, communication interfaces and applications to meet any design…
Samsung raises light efficacy bar for COB LEDs
Samsung raises light efficacy bar for COB LEDs
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has raised the light efficacy for its chip-on-board (COB) family of LED packages to the highest in the industry.
Five instrumentation trends for 2014, according to NI
Five instrumentation trends for 2014, according to NI
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National Instruments is highlighting five key trends for engineers in 2014, from control systems to RF and user interfaces:…
Audi, Bosch get granular on GaN
Audi, Bosch get granular on GaN
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With silicon technology hitting the efficiency limits in power modules for electric vehicles, carmaker Audi and tier one Robert Bosch GmbH partake in a research project aiming at power modules…
Six winners from the Wearables World Cup
Six winners from the Wearables World Cup
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The top 20 finalists and the ultimate winner from the 2013 Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup were just announced at this year’s Wearable Technologies Conference in Munich, out of 600…
Power Tip 67: Improve discontinuous flyback efficiency with synchronous rectifiers
Power Tip 67: Improve discontinuous flyback efficiency with synchronous rectifiers
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Robert Kollman, Senior Applications Manager, Texas Instruments examines how to improve discontinuous flyback efficiency with synchronous rectifiers.
The analog circuitry hidden at ISSCC
The analog circuitry hidden at ISSCC
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At the first International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), held in Philadelphia in 1954, most of the papers dealt with the properties of these new-fangled transistor things, since most electronic…
Quantum dots from Warsaw
Quantum dots from Warsaw
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Polish researchers have developed new ways of building quantum dots with single metal atoms to store information.
Ultrasonics slash cost of gas sensors
Ultrasonics slash cost of gas sensors
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A gas sensor using ultrasonic measurements is set to slash the cost of medical monitoring.
Six winners from the Wearable Technologies World Cup
Six winners from the Wearable Technologies World Cup
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The top 20 finalists and the ultimate winner from the 2013 Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup were just announced at this year’s Wearable Technologies Conference in Munich, out of 600…
MPS claims industry’s first programmable power product family
MPS claims industry’s first programmable power product family
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Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), a fabless manufacturer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has released what the company claims is  industry's first fully-programmable controller specifically designed for Information/Communications and cloud…
T8 LED tube family reduces energy costs by 60+ percent
T8 LED tube family reduces energy costs by 60+ percent
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Soitec Lighting has unveiled a T8 LED tube product family for the North American market. The line of solid-state replacement products for fluorescent T8 tubes complements Soitec’s existing European tube…
Fully encrypted? Watch your back!
Fully encrypted? Watch your back!
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Sure enough, the revelations of whistle-blower Edward Snowden on NSA’s large-scale surveillance practices have not just created political embarrassment among US allies, they have raised the level of “Big Brother”…
Making digital power control viable for high-current DC-DC designs
Making digital power control viable for high-current DC-DC designs
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Ben Dowlat, Senior Product Director (Linear and Power), Micrel explains how technology improvements can make digital power control viable for high-current DC-DC designs.
High voltage processes added to Europractice MPW schedule
High voltage processes added to Europractice MPW schedule
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Analog and mixed-signal foundry X-Fab Silicon Foundries AG (Erfurt, Germany) is working with the Europractice IC service run by research institute IMEC to offer a couple of high-voltage processes for…
Test and simulation environment to improve power module reliability for e-cars
Test and simulation environment to improve power module reliability for e-cars
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Early reliability and life expectancy assessment of power electronics modules for electric cars is the goal of the InTeLekt research program launched in Germany. The research consortium will develop a…


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