Maxim has cut quiescent current to 20µA for a 24V 500mA buck converter, aimed at USB Type-C products. “USB Type-C products must generate an always-on 3.3V rail to detect USB insertions,” said the firm. “Products utilising the Power Delivery voltage range of 5 to 20V can generate an always-on 1.8, 3.3 or 5.0V digital supply rail ...
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Researchers at Imperial College London have applied optical measurement technology used in solar panels to evaluate the materials used in a gauntlet from a 16th-century suit of armour. The gauntlet is part of the the Wallace Collection in London and conservators wanted to investigate a surface effect applied to the metalwork in swords and armour. ...
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Designs for augmented reality applications need to consider all the uses to which it can be put, write Nick Ni and Adam Taylor. Research has shown that humans interact with the world visually because we process visual images many times faster than information presented in other forms. Augmented reality (AR), like its virtual reality (VR) ...
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A connected warehouse workforce makes a great difference to a company’s reputation in the supply chain, writes Justine Clark. Today’s supply chains are hugely complex, which makes it all the more important that companies ensure that visibility and orchestration receives due attention. According to Honeywell research conducted in 2016, ‘the last mile’ of delivery makes ...
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Globalfoundries has demonstrated silicon functionality of a 2.5D package for its high-performance 14nm FinFET FX-14 integrated design system for ASICs. The 2.5D ASIC package has a stitched interposer capability to overcome lithography limitations and a two terabits per second (2Tbps) multi-lane HBM2 PHY, developed in partnership with Rambus. B It will also be used for GloFo’s 7nm Finfet process. ...
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Conductors can be written and re-written in three dimensions inside an insulating solid, according to Washington State University physicists. It happens when crystals of strontium titanate are exposed to a laser beam, causing ‘persistent photoconductivity’. Heating improves the writeability. “It opens up a new type of electronics where you can define a circuit optically and then ...
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Lina is an electric car from TU/ecomotive of the University of Technology Eindhoven, whose body is made from plant-based materials. The bio-based composite is claimed to have similar strength/weight to glass fibre, although it is based on flax fibre-reinforced sheets with a honeycomb core (see photo) made from (sugar beet-based in this case) PLA bio-plastic ...
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Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have developed a spit-powered microbial fuel cell, which might be able to power medical diagnostic equipment in the field. “On-demand micro-power generation is required especially for point-of-care diagnostic applications in developing countries,” said researcher Seokheun Choi. “Typically, those applications require only several tens of microwatt-level power for several ...
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The government must stand ready to seize the semiconductor opportunity that 5G presents and not repeat the mistakes of the past. In 1989, mobile phones were not much smaller than house‑bricks. And few people used them. But the UK government, convinced by its advisers that something very important was about to happen in personal communications, ...
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Today, Japan Display, the loss-making, government-backed, five year-old jv formed from the display operations of Toshiba, Hitachi and Mitsubishi, is expected to announce 3,750 lay-offs. Japan Display is looking for help from Foxconn which bought Sharp last year and from two Chinese display panel manufacturers Tianma Microelectronics and BOE Technology Group. Japan Display has made ...
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