Paper can be turned into an actuator by applying a thin layer of conducting thermoplastic by 3D printing, or even by hand, according to Carnegie Mellon University. When current is fed through the thermoplastic – off-the-shelf graphene polyactide composite – it heats and expands causing the paper to bend or fold – an process which ...
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The University of Minnesota has sputtered a ‘topological insulator’ – a solid that conducts on its surface but not inside – avoiding the single crystal growth process or molecular beam epitaxy normally needed. Bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) is the material, magnetron-sputtered into a thin film of particles <6nm across in hetero-structures with CoFeB – “Using the sputtering ...
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The UK government has published the first tranche of guidance should the UK leave the EU with ‘no deal’. They can be found here on the Department for exiting the European Union website. According to the Department in the introductory document: “This document puts the government’s technical notices in context, explaining the current progress in ...
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Canadian firm D-Wave Systems has calculated its way through a ‘topological phase transition’ using its 2,048-qubit ‘annealing quantum computer’. Several huge organisations have bought D-Wave computers – including Google and NASA (Lockheed-Martin even up-graded its D-Wave system) – but, in a world where folk are having trouble quantum-coupling a handful of qubits, there remain questions ...
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Toshiba has introduced a bipolar driver for two-phase stepping motors up to 44V 5A that includes 1/128 micro-stepping. TB67S128FTG, as it is to be known, also supports full, half, quarter, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 step operation – micro-stepping is by PWM, using sine-wave derived on-off ratios – output chopping frequency can be adjusted by external ...
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ADI has broken ground on its new headquarters in Wilmington, Massachussetts. The facility will feature laboratories, design and manufacturing and cross-functional group collaboration space. In addition to 13,700 additional square metres for R&D, the global headquarters will include a 4,700 m² Hub comprising a café, fitness facility and auditorium designed to enable and encourage employees from all ...
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Taxing social media companies to support quality journalism is one of Jeremy Corbyn’s new ideas, along with a ‘digital licence fee’ on ISPs and publishing the social class of BBC employees. Corbyn will put forward the ideas later today in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The money raised will go to ...
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gInfineon has availability of a new member of its CoolMOS P7 family, the 950 V CoolMOS P7 Superjunction MOSFET. The 950 V CoolMOS P7 attributes include improved DPAK R DS(on) enabling higher density designs. Similar to the other members of the P7 family from Infineon, it comes with an integrated Zener diode ESD protection. This results ...
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Mouser has released the fourth video episode in the Generation Robot series, part of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the video, Grant Imahara tours the Cyberdyne Studio just outside of Tokyo to learn more about the company’s Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) — a robotic medical suit that combines human, machine, and information functionalities to restore or improve ...
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