Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record – 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure – as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing. The cell is a tandem device, where wavelength coverage is increased by using two different junctions. In this case the materials were tuned so that the junctions complement ...
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IBM and Maersk are looking to sign up partners for their blockchain-based container-tracking service TradeLens. The companies say they have signed 92 organisations for their cross-border supply chain programme to manage and track the tens of millions of shipping containers across the world. TradeLens aims to create a global trade digitisation platform built on the Hyperledger ...
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Suzuki, Mazda and Yamaha are the latest car manufacturers to have been found to have been fudging their fuel and emissions tests, reports the Nikkei. They join Nissan and Subaru who were found to have falsified testing data earlier this year, and Mitsubishi which was found to have engaged in faulty testing in 2016 In ...
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Pickering Interfaces, the Clacton-on-sea provider of modular signal switching and simulation for electronic test and verification, has added a PXIe version of its USB 2.0 Hub module which offers the same capabilities as its PXI USB 2.0 Hub (model 40-738). This USB 2.0 Hub (model 42-738) is a single-slot 3U PXIe module that combines an ...
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Allegro MicroSystems has established a research and development centre in the Czech Republic. It currently has two dozen engineers and will work on ICs for automotive and industrial markets – initially focussing on sensor ICs for electrified vehicles, green energy, and industrial motors. “We are very excited to formally open our new R&D centre in ...
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Inspired by acoustics, a French-US team has found a way to locate objects in a room simply by their microwave scattering characteristics. Similar to diffusing reverberant acoustic wave spectroscopy (DRAWS), the techniques relies on the room having walls that reflect radio waves – reflecting sufficiently to fill the room with a complex field of interference ...
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Designers can used the integrated development environment (IDE) to quickly go from C++ to FPGA using the HLS and Achronix’s ACE design tools. The combination can reduce the development effort for 5G wireless and other design applications that require high performance FPGA technology in SoCs, configured using a proven C‑based design flow. Ellie Burns, director of marketing, Calypto Systems division, ...
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Display specialist, Review Display Systems, has opened a branch in the USA. The UK supplier of displays and embedded systems and design solutions, has opened offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Headed by Alan Beale, the company will serve clients in the US. Alan has a business and engineering background, having worked in graphics, computing and renewable energy sectors for ...
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“We are being exposed to blue light continuously, and it’s no secret that blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye’s retina,” said University of Toledo researcher Dr Ajith Karunarathne. “Our experiments explain how this happens, and we hope this leads to therapies that slow macular degeneration.” The mechanism identified involves a vitamin A ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Fanstel of Scottsdale Arizona which develops and manufactures Wi-Fi- and Bluetooth–enabled modules including Nordic Semiconductor-based BlueNor and Toshiba-based BlueFan modules. BlueNor are BLE modules that incorporate a Nordic nRF52 system-on-chip (SoC) and an Arm Cortex microcontroller. The BlueNor BT832 Series modules combine a Nordic nRF52832 SoC and an Arm ...
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