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Measuring water vapour permeability to prevent moisture-related failures
Measuring water vapour permeability to prevent moisture-related failures
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The importance of protecting electronic components and equipment from moisture would seem to be obvious as it causes electronic and…
Integrated documentation option added to Altium’s Designer PCB tool
Integrated documentation option added to Altium’s Designer PCB tool
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Altium is to release a new documentation workflow in its flagship PCB design platform, Altium Designer 16.1. Draftsman provides PCB…
Greenpeak adds cloud support by People Power for smart home systems
Greenpeak adds cloud support by People Power for smart home systems
People Power is working with GreenPeak to offer a ultra-low power, wireless communications network for its new Smart Home solutions:…
Magnetic sensor fits mobile devices
Magnetic sensor fits mobile devices
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The MMC3630KJ magnetometer from MEMSIC integrates a monolithic 3-axis AMR (anisotropic magnetoresistive) sensor and a signal conditioning ASIC into a…

Powering a precision SAR ADC with an efficient, ultra-low power switcher
Powering a precision SAR ADC with an efficient, ultra-low power switcher
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Typically precision measurement systems use low-dropout regulators (LDOs) as part of their power supply schemes to generate low noise rails for precision ADCs. However LDOs can be very inefficient in…
‘2-in-1’ solar cell + battery hybrid promises many advantages
‘2-in-1’ solar cell + battery hybrid promises many advantages
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Researchers at TU Graz in Austria are investigating ways of combining photovoltaic cells with electrochemical energy storage systems to create a single hybrid device.
Material challenge: Can a battery and solar cell hybrid system really work?
Material challenge: Can a battery and solar cell hybrid system really work?
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Researchers at TU Graz in Austria are investigating ways of combining photovoltaic cells with electrochemical energy storage systems to create a single device.
IoT handbook offers insights for decision makers
IoT handbook offers insights for decision makers
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Wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) technology provider Telit (London, UK) has published the "Internet of Things Executive Handbook 2016," which offers interviews and articles relating to the IoT and its technological, economic,…
Full colour LED cluster packs 7 individually addressable dies
Full colour LED cluster packs 7 individually addressable dies
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LED Engin has announced a 7-color, high power LED cluster, the LZ7-04MU00 emitter, aimed at stage or architectural lighting with sophisticated effects over the full colour spectrum.
Apple’s core technology demands drive Foxconn’s Sharp acquisition
Apple’s core technology demands drive Foxconn’s Sharp acquisition
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Chinese electronics assembler Foxconn's desire to acquire Japan's Sharp Corp derives from the company's need to gain access to high-end OLED screen technology that is may be used in future…
MEMS gravimeter takes underground mapping to the masses
MEMS gravimeter takes underground mapping to the masses
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Using a proprietary asymmetric cantilever design, researchers from the University of Glasgow have designed a portable MEMS-based gravimeter boasting the smallest resonant frequency ever reported for a MEMS device together…
LED troffer retrofit solution extends connectivity and modularity
LED troffer retrofit solution extends connectivity and modularity
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Orion Energy Systems, Inc. has introduced products and partnerships that extend the connectivity and modularity of the company's patented LED Troffer Retrofit (LDR) product suite.
Google Car’s road traffic accident
Google Car’s road traffic accident
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On Valentine’s Day this year, near Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s autonomous test car was involved in a road traffic accident.
Japan’s TSNC invests in Chinese OLED material developer
Japan’s TSNC invests in Chinese OLED material developer
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Japan's Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TSNC) has acquired the global sales rights of Jilin OLED products.
MIT system lets Wi-Fi locate users within tens of centimeters
MIT system lets Wi-Fi locate users within tens of centimeters
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A system designed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (Cambridge, MA) enables a single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimetres; the team offers…
Google Car’s road traffic accident
Google Car’s road traffic accident
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On Valentine’s Day this year, near Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s autonomous test car was involved in a road traffic accident.
Device current waveform analyzer measures previously undetectable signals
Device current waveform analyzer measures previously undetectable signals
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has introduced what the company claims is the world’s first analyzer enabling a minimum of 100-pA level dynamic current measurements with a maximum of…
Tronics makes cuts as sales plunge
Tronics makes cuts as sales plunge
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Annual revenue at Tronics Microsystems SA (Grenoble, France), a public company since February 2015, fell back in 2015 by a third compared to 2014 and the company has implemented a…
Video: Apple takes a recycling step
Video: Apple takes a recycling step
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Apple is to be applauded for creating a system to recover at least some of the resources it has gone to such trouble to assemble in its iPhones.
MEMS yields low-cost gravity detector
MEMS yields low-cost gravity detector
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Researchers at QuantIC (Gilmorehill Campus of Glasgow University), which is the UK centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in quantum enhanced imaging, have adapted widely-available technology found in…
Smartphone technology yields low-cost gravity detector
Smartphone technology yields low-cost gravity detector
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Researchers at QuantIC (Gilmorehill Campus of Glasgow University), which is the UK centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in quantum enhanced imaging, have adapted widely-available technology found in…
Transparent wood lowers cost of solar cells
Transparent wood lowers cost of solar cells
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Researchers at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a transparent wood material that is suitable for mass production applications thereby offering the potential to lower solar cell manufacturing…
Energy independent vehicles may be huge future market, says report
Energy independent vehicles may be huge future market, says report
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According to market research firm IDTechEx's latest report, "Future Powertrains 2016-2036," the main powertrain options for land vehicles over the next twenty years could quickly narrow down from conventional ICE…
Lawrence Livermore, IBM partner on brain-like supercomputer
Lawrence Livermore, IBM partner on brain-like supercomputer
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) has announced that it will take delivery of a supercomputer based on IBM's TrueNorth neural networking chip.
What happened to DDC pioneer SuVolta?
What happened to DDC pioneer SuVolta?
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SuVolta Inc. was a promising startup developing deeply depleted channel transistor technology for low-power ICs that is no more.
As analog goes digital must digital go soft?
As analog goes digital must digital go soft?
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Ken Coffman, field applications engineer with Intersil, discusses the long-term evolution of electronics.
Lawrence Livermore Lab to deploy neural network computer to mimic brain
Lawrence Livermore Lab to deploy neural network computer to mimic brain
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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced it will take delivery of a supercomputer based on the TrueNorth neural networking chip developed by IBM.
Swiss made open-source processor core ready for IoT
Swiss made open-source processor core ready for IoT
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Researchers at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) and the University of Bologna have developed PULPino, an open-source processor optimized for low power consumption and application in…


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