Printer for plasmonic structures works at room temperature

Printing nano-scale features in surfaces it difficult, according to Purdue University, particularly if the required features are smaller than the gains in the metal – the grains govern the ‘formability limit’. Sputtering metal into moulds is another route, so long at the resulting rough surface texture is not an issue. Now Purdue is claiming both ...

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Toshiba prototypes 96-layer 1.3Tbit NAND

Toshiba has developed a prototype 96-layer BiCS FLASH, memory using 3D flash quad level cell (QLC) technology. The IC achieves the industry’s maximum capacity of 1.33 terabits for a single chip. This also realises an unparalleled capacity of 2.66 terabytes in a single package by utilising a 16-chip stacked architecture. The huge volumes of data generated ...

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Flow battery uses liquid sodium-potassium alloy

Researchers at Stanford University have proposed liquid sodium-potassium alloy as an electron donor in a flow battery. Instead of storing electrons within the structure of a battery, a flow battery stores electrons in the form of chemicals in tanks, which are pumped into an electrolytic cell when charge or discharge is required. The action decouples ...

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Kenya goes Loony

Google’s Loon balloons are to be deployed over Kenya to provide internet access in the first commercial use of the technology. Loon will work with Telkom Kenya to deliver the service. “We will work very hard with Loon, to deliver the first commercial mobile service, as quickly as possible, using Loon’s balloon-powered Internet in Africa,” ...

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Huawei telecoms kit is a risk to UK networks

Huawei telecoms equipment poses a risk to the UK telecoms network, concludes a report by the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC). “Through 2017, HCSEC has continued to find issues in Huawei products, demonstrating their continued ability to discover weaknesses in the Huawei product set,”says the report. “The NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) has advised ...

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Xilinx buys China start-up

Xilinx has bought Beijing start-up DeepPhi Technology which specialises in machine learning, deep compression, pruning, and system-level optimization for neural networks. DeePhi Tech has been developing its machine learning solutions on Xilinx technology platforms, and the two companies have worked closely together since DeePhi Tech’s inception in 2016. DeePhi Tech’s neural network pruning technology has ...

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Nicomatic launches miniature EMM connector

Nicomatic, the French connector manufacturer, has launched  a rugged micro connector, the 1.27 mm pitch EMM series which targets defense and other high-reliability applications. Designed to meet the performance requirements of MIL 83513, EMM series connectors occupy 40% less space than previous-generation connectors from the company, are 20% smaller than Micro D connectors for 16-pin ...

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