Scottish sensors grow micro-organisms better

Scientists are turning to Cumbernauld-based Gas Sensing Solutions to soup-up laboratory micro-organism incubators. Used to grow culture cells and tissues, and grow bacteria in stable environments, said GSS, their controls typically only measure up to ~5% CO2 concentration levels, but some researchers need 20% CO2 or higher. This is where GSS’s CO2 sensors come in. Based ...

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Microchip adds Sony’s LDAC audio codec capability for Hi-Fi Bluetooth

Microchip has created a Bluetooth 5-compliant SoC with Sony’s LDAC audio codec – although Microchip points out that a separate license from Sony is required to implement LDAC audio codec technology. “LDAC is considered the highest-quality audio codec available,” claimed Microchip. “It transmits up to 990kbit/s throughput, which is three times higher than the standard ...

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Sine-wave dc motor controller works with 12-pole rotor for quiet power

Toshiba has launched a three-phase brushless fan motor controller IC for white good, intended to increase efficiency drive and reduce noise. “Conventionally, motor control is carried out by a microcontroller and an 8-pole rotor using a rotation-control signal that delivers 3 pulses per cycle,” said the firm, “Switching from an 8-pole to 12-pole rotor achieves ...

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Maxim puts payment card grade security into package under 5x5mm

Maxim is aiming at securing industrial, consumer, computing and IoT applications with its MAX32558 microcontroller, which it has shrunk compared with its previous security offerings. Compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 L3&4 certification, the newest member of its DeepCover family, MAX32558 offers cryptographic operations, key storage and active tamper detection to products in ...

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Tokyo Tech moots BiSb for next-gen MRAM

Bismuth-antimony (BiSb) alloys are the best candidate for the first industrial application of topological insulators, a step towards spin-orbit torque magneto resistive memory (SOT-MRAM), with the potential to replace existing memory, according to scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). Led by Pham Nam Hai, the team has developed thin films of BiSb for a ...

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NASA to try strained-layer super lattice imagers in space

NASA has turned to strained-layer super lattice (SLS) imagers for infra-red space cameras. They are based on earlier ‘quantum well infrared photodetectors’ (QWIPs) that are flying on Landsat 8, and will be flying Landsat 9, which monitor vegetation from space. SLS imaging arrays are fabricated on a semiconductor wafer, using hundreds of alternating epitaxially layers ...

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Daicel offers free nanodiamond samples to researchers

Daicel of Osaka has started supplying eight different types of nanodiamond (ND) samples to international researchers. The ND samples are supplied to researchers in universities and research institutes free of charge to accelerate the development of new applications with NDs. ND samples contain ζnegative potential NDs water dispersion, ζpositive NDs, polyglycerin modified NDs, and chemically ...

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IC market tracking global GDP more closely

The correlation coefficient between global GDP and the IC market will rise to 0.95 between 2018 and 2022 up from 0.88 in the 2010-2017 time period, says IC Insights. IC Insights depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2017, as well as its forecast through 2022, in Figure ...

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TCL comes to UK

TCL, the world’s third largest TV manufacturer, has  entered the UK market with its UK debut range now available in retail channels and fully supported. “We see the UK market as one of great opportunity for TCL,” says TCL’s UK boss Bernie Chen. TCL entered the European market by partnering withThomson in France in 2004 ...

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Connector sets compliant with VITA 42 XMC.

Samtec has launched connector sets compliant with the revised ANSI/VITA 42.0-2016 XMC Standard. VITA 42 XMC defines an open standard for supporting high-speed, switched interconnect protocols on an existing, widely deployed form factor. This revision further defined the concept for the preferred Standard connectors in XMC applications including: Solder ball attachment replaced Paste-On-Pad (POP) for ...

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