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Visualisation of how the charge carriers (in purple) accumulate in the disordered perovskite structures.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next generation solar cells and flexible LEDs have discovered that they can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered, vastly simplifying production processes and lowering cost.
The surprising findings,
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11/11/2019
This is an artistic illustration of atomic layer deposition.
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) involves stacking layers of atoms on top of each other like pancakes. The atoms come from a vaporized material called a precursor. ASD is a well-established technique for manufacturing microelectronics like semiconductors and magnetic heads for sound recording, as well as sensors
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11/11/2019
Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online - particularly in developing countries - lack meaningful ways to influence the global players shaping their everyday lives, according to a new study.
As political engagement increasingly takes place online, basic
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11/11/2019
Graduate students Mostafa Alizadeh, left, and Hajar Abedi position a doll, modified to simulate breathing, in a minivan during testing of a new sensor.
A small, inexpensive sensor could save lives by triggering an alarm when children or pets are left alone in vehicles.
The new device, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, combines radar technology with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect unattended children or animals with 100-per-cent
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11/11/2019
Stackpole's popular CSS / CSSH Series ultra-precision current sense resistors now have the 0508 size in stock in 1, 1.5, and 2 milliohm resistance values. The wide termination 0508 package provides a 1W power rating, at least twice the power rating of other sense resistors of similar size.
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11/11/2019
Schedule of the quantum data classification protocol
Quantum-based communication and computation technologies promise unprecedented applications, such as unconditionally secure communications, ultra-precise sensors, and quantum computers capable of solving specific problems with a level of efficiency impossible to reach by classical computers. In recent times,
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11/11/2019
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with the Faraday Institution in a newly released Nature review of challenges and opportunities associated with recycling lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles
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11/10/2019
This chart shows how vertical beam-size stability greatly improves when a neural network is implemented during Advanced Light Source operations. When the so-called "feed-forward" correction is implemented, the fluctuations in the vertical beam size are stabilized down to the sub-percent level (see yellow-highlighted section) from levels that otherwise range to several percent.
Synchrotron light sources are powerful facilities that produce light in a variety of "colors," or wavelengths - from the infrared to X-rays - by accelerating electrons to emit light in controlled beams.
Synchrotrons like the Advanced Light Source at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley
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11/10/2019
The contact aerial manipulator system
Skyscrapers are rising rapidly around the world, continuously transforming city skylines. However, their repair and maintenance is becoming more and more difficult. So, who can safely perform the job? Will a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man help out?
No, but Chinese researchers at the Shenyang Institute
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11/10/2019
Transphorm Inc. disclosed that it has shipped more than 500 thousand high voltage GaN FETs. The company hit this milestone as customers continue to adopt its high quality-high reliability GaN platform.
High Voltage GaN Adoption
Customers in the broad industrial, infrastructure
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11/08/2019
Triad Magnetics is pleased to announce that Electronetics will now be operating as a division of Triad Magnetics, offering a unified solution to better serve the custom magnetics market. Both Electronetics and Triad customers will now benefit from the combined resources of a global magnetics leader and
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11/07/2019
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited introduced AOZ6682CI and AOZ6683CI. These devices are high efficiency, simple-to-use synchronous buck regulators. The AOZ6682CI and AOZ6683CI are both available in an ultra-thin, thermally enhanced TSOT23-6 packageand deliver 2A and 3A output current, respectively. The new
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11/07/2019
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an affordable flow battery membrane for the electric grid from a new class of polymers called AquaPIM.
How do you store renewable energy so it's there when you need it, even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing? Giant batteries designed for the electrical grid - called flow batteries, which store electricity in tanks of liquid electrolyte - could be the answer, but so far utilities have yet to
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11/07/2019
Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science and Keio University propose that a certain machine learning algorithm can help resource-constrained devices on a wireless network select optimal channels for information transmission; this could potentially decongest massive IoT networks.
The wireless Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices in which each device can directly send information to another over wireless channels of communication, without human intervention. With the number of IoT devices increasing every day, the amount of information on the wireless channels is also increasing.
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11/07/2019
The move to autonomous vehicles has given a number of technologies the chance to shine, including as it turns out, old standbys like RADAR. On today’s show, we’ve got Zach Karas, an automotive engineer at Analog Devices.
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11/07/2019
Signal Transformer announced selected models of the ST and DST Series of high isolation split bobbin, low power transformers, are now recognized by UL as Inherently Limited Class 2 transformers per (UL 5085-3) and now incorporate a UL 1446 Class F 155.0C Insulation System. The ST and DST Series utilize split
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11/07/2019
RS Components is now offering a new easy-to-use and inexpensive development kit from Cypress Semiconductor that will enable engineers to evaluate the high-performance Excelon Ultra QSPI F-RAM memory technology.
Cypress’ advanced Excelon F-RAM technology is well suited for deployment in a variety
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11/07/2019
A 2D prism
In 1884, a schoolmaster and theologian named Edwin Abbott wrote a novella called Flatland, which tells the story of a world populated by sentient two-dimensional shapes. While intended as a satire of rigid Victorian social norms, Flatland has long fascinated mathematicians and physicists and served as the setting
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11/07/2019
Trained AI agents can adopt human design strategies to solve problems, according to findings published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
Big design problems require creative and exploratory decision making, a skill in which humans excel. When engineers use artificial intelligence
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11/07/2019
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are getting smarter with the help of an international team of researchers. They developed a way for multiple UAVS to fall into formation while still automatically controlling their own flight needs, just like the drones used by the villain portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal in the 2019
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11/07/2019
TDK Corporation presents the new B2568 series of EPCOS MKP DC link power capacitors, which offer outstanding robustness under harsh environmental conditions. The new capacitors are designed for voltages of between 900 and 3000 V DC and cover a capacitance range from 50 to 4000 µF. Depending on type, the
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11/07/2019
Texas Instruments has introduced new high-performance LED drivers to make scalable LED-based systems approachable to carmakers across the globe. From static headlights, to customizable dynamic features – swiping turn, animated daytime running lights (DRL) and adaptive driving beams – the TPS92520-Q1 and
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11/06/2019
RIGOL Technologies announces the new DG2000 Series of Arbitrary Function Generators expanding their portfolio of 16Bit Generators to satisfy the requirements of more rugged and industrial applications.
The DG2000 delivers the same performance specifications and feature set as RIGOL’s popular DG900
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11/05/2019
GaN Systems announced that the company received International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification for the design and manufacture of power semiconductor products. Both GaN Systems’ Canadian headquarters and Taiwanese operations facilities received
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11/05/2019
Murata introduced its DRE-11.4/53-L48 eighth brick Intermediate Bus Converter (IBC) from Murata Power Solutions. The product series addresses the growing power requirements of networking and telecommunications infrastructure equipment by delivering the highest efficiency in the industry at this power output
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11/05/2019
Renesas Electronics Corporation and Altair Semiconductor jointly announced a partnership aimed at bringing ultra-small and ultra-low-power cellular IoT solutions to the global IoT market. Cellular IoT device makers will be able to use this combination of best-in-classsolutions tocreate highly differentiated
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11/05/2019
Stackpole Electronics, Inc. announces the release of the CML Series MLCC capacitors. The CML offers a wide capacitance range from 0.1pF up to 100uF in voltage ratings from 10V to 100V. Available in C0G dielectric for exceptional stability and accuracy and no aging effects, X7R and X5R for
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11/05/2019
NewPower Worldwide announced it has achieved AS9120 and AS6081 Certification. This announcement comes after an extensive audit of NewPower Worldwide's operations to ensure conformance with the AS9120 and AS6081 standard from the International Aerospace Quality Group.
"AS9120 Certification is
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11/05/2019
MIT and Toyota researchers have designed a new model to help autonomous vehicles determine when it's safe to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.
Navigating intersections can be dangerous for driverless cars and humans alike. In 2016, roughly 23 percent of fatal and 32 percent
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11/05/2019
This is an example of simple light-sensing electronics with an LED (light-emitting diode), a light-sensitive diode (semiconductor) and power connected by a high-performance circuit inside polymer. The LED is on when exposed to light and off when light from the diode is blocked.
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small satellites, biomedical implants and smart structures.
They used pulses of high-energy light to fuse tiny silver wires, resulting
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11/05/2019
Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, and Toshiba Group (Toshiba) announced that Toshiba has joined as a community member. As a global leader in innovatively pairing real-world technologies and digital technologies, Toshiba is leading the evolution of cyber-physical
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11/05/2019
Unlike other materials with electrons that scatter in many directions (bottom left), the electrons in 2D antimony (top left) can be made to move together in an orderly way, giving it high charge mobility and making the material an efficient semiconductor.
Not everything is bigger in Texas -- some things are really, really small. A group of engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may have found a new material for manufacturing even smaller computer chips that could replace silicon and help overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the tech industry
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11/04/2019
Practice makes perfect -- it is an adage that has helped humans become highly dexterous and now it is an approach that is being applied to robots.
Computer scientists at the University of Leeds are using the artificial intelligence (AI) techniques of automated planning and reinforcement learning to
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11/04/2019
Sager Electronics is now stocking Schaffner’s FN 9262/FN 9266 RFI Filters.
The new RFI filters feature an IEC C14 PEM (power entry module) with integrated fuse holder or switch. The high-performance filter series FN 9262 (with fuse holder) and FN 9266 (with dual pole switch) are ideal for applications
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11/04/2019
GaN Systems and ON Semiconductor announced the availability of a high-speed, half-bridge GaN daughter board using GaN Systems’ 650 V, 30 A GaN E-HEMTs and ON Semiconductor’s award-winning NCP51820 high speed gate driver evaluation board.
This evaluation board is developed for
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11/04/2019
The new Cyber_SHIP Lab at the University of Plymouth will complement existing world-leading facilities such as its ship simulator
A unique new research facility designed to address the key cyber security challenges facing the shipping industry is being established at the University of Plymouth.
The £3 million Cyber-SHIP Lab, supported by funding from Research England, part of UK Research and Innovation, and industry, will bring
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11/04/2019
MORNSUN released a new enclosed switching power supply series LMF100-20Bxx with active PFC (Power factor correction). The LMF100-20Bxx series features universal input voltage range of 85-264Vac, accepts AC or DC input and the PF(Power factor) is up to 0.98. In addition, its emissions meets CISPR32 CLASS B without
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11/04/2019
Dr. Sudie Back of the Medical University of South Carolina holds the type of camera that will be used in the experimental PTSD treatment. It can be disguised as a shirt button.
New technology aims to improve the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder by allowing veterans to virtually take their doctor with them during prolonged exposure therapy. The system gives the doctor physical and psychological information about the veterans in real time.
"This is something
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11/02/2019
A new hybrid material developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool may bring the dream of carbon-free nuclear fusion power a step closer.
The separation of hydrogen's three isotopes (hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium) is of key importance for fusion power technology, but current technologies
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11/02/2019
AVX Corporation announced that it has completed the purchase of Chengdu OK New Energy, Ltd. After four years of strong collaborative efforts between COKNE and AVX on the manufacturing and development of supercapacitors, AVX is delighted to complete the full vertical integration under the AVX umbrella.
During
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11/01/2019
Few sectors benefit more from the IoT than transportation. But in truth, the IoT will affect nearly everything we do – hence the IoT’s nom de plume, the Internet of Everything.
And not surprisingly, this month’s contributors approach the IoT from very different perspectives.
If
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11/01/2019
The IoT and wearables are interesting separately, but really shine when combined. Wearables is only one of the new areas that the IoT has opened up, but it could become one of the most important in the future. We’ve had some smartish-type watches and a few other gimmicky wearables before the IoT was quite
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1. 5th Generation Cellular Mobile Communication
‘Mar’s Law’ presents a tongue-in-cheek perspective on how data measurements can sometimes be manipulated to fit a more linear profile than is the reality. However, there are no such shortcuts to achieving high linearity for a power amplifier (PA), which is at the heart of mobile cellular communication
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1. Simplified Schematic of Buck-Boost LED Driver for DRL Application
Successive generations of power-semiconductor devices based on existing technologies strive to deliver incremental improvements in energy efficiency. Now there is a device, realized through proprietary technology, that enables power supplies to achieve a significant leap forward in performance and efficiency—the
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1: Augmented Reality (AR) glasses displaying airline flight information
For those of us who wear glasses for vision correction, we are used to seeing the world through lenses. However, new technologies will allow a virtual world to be laid on top of the real world that we normally see. In other words, the lenses will become displays that allow us to see the “real” world
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1. Unless protected by the appropriate cyber security technologies, appliances – including refrigerators – can host and spread a wide range of malware and computer viruses
Cyberattacks are on the rise worldwide. Most of the attacks that generate big press coverage are very dramatic and well-documented. We have all read about malware attacks, Denial of Service attacks, which shut down factories, governments and large international businesses - and even portions of the Internet
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1: Examples of wearable designs that can provide enhanced battery life via low-powered design.
The medical field has introduced an increasing number of portable and wireless medical devices for in-home patient care as it witnesses broader adoption of tele-medicine. With the advent of increasingly miniaturized and powerful electronics, we foresee the adoption of adapted wireless wristband wearables for
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11/01/2019
Figure 1: A Medical Diagnostic Technology-equipped smartphone
Source: Leman Micro Devices SA
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With consumer wearables such as FitBits and the Apple Watch established in the market and consumers who have bought these devices now accustomed to seeing their own personalised health data such as heart rate displayed on their wrists (although not to standards of accuracy required by the medical profession),
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1: Activity Tracker use case
Over just the last few years, we’ve seen the popularity of wearables surge across various market segments. It’s easy to see why: these products are packed with some of the latest and complex technological advancements and aim to improve well-being and simplify day to day tasks and activities in a completely
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1. LTC3107 Harvesting Thermal Energy to Power a WSN and/or Charge a Battery
The costs associated with keeping a patient in a hospital bed for a prolonged period are becoming economically unsustainable – both for the institution itself, and the patient. As a result, hospitals are looking for ways to reduce these cost burdens by getting the patient well and autonomous as soon as possible
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11/01/2019
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Figure 1 – A comparison of the volume energy densities of Nichicon’s electric double layer capacitors (EDLC) vs its small li-ion rechargeable batteries.
Nichicon has a new Li-ion rechargeable battery that can be directly mounted onto circuit boards without any special fixtures. This new product line is called the SLB series. This new SLB series have some of the characteristics of both rechargeable Li-ion batteries and EDLC’s making them viable alternatives
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11/01/2019
There are now more things online than people. How much water does an individual appliance or shower use? Why was the water bill so high? Home water usage used to be just whatever the water company main meter says it is. I just saw a promotion for a smart IoT enabled point of use real-time water meter.
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11/01/2019
The Internet of Things (IoT) is really more of a concept than a tangible device – the IoT comprises billions of palpable objects, but no one will “switch it on” in the same way the ARPANET officially began in October of 1969. Of course, no one has to flip a switch because the IoT is already here
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11/01/2019
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is a commonly enough used phrase. The transistor is one thing that definitely ain’t broke. Since the first working bipolar junction transistor was produced in 1948 and the first CMOS one in 1963, those two designs have been the foundation of the technology that has completely
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11/01/2019
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