Solid State adds optoelectronics with Pacer acquisition

Component distributor, and manufacturer, Solid State has bought optoelectronic component company, Pacer.  Solid State is reported to have paid $3.7million for Pacer, which has offices in Pangbourne and Weymouth in the UK and a US subsidiary in Florida. Founded in 1971, Solid State manufactures computing, power and communications products in addition to component distribution. Pacer will ...

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How to get a robot to jump out of water

Some animals can jump out of water from a standing start, without anything to push against except the water. A pair of researchers at Cornell University – Sunghwan Jung and Brian Chang – wanted to know how, and could a robot do it. “We collected data about aquatic animals of different sizes – from about 1mm ...

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Side-detection switches are darn small

C&K has launched two series of micro-mini side-actuated detect switches. FDSD switches are 4.20 x 3.60 x 1.20mm, with optional flat or bent terminals for PCB mounting. The SPST-NO beryllium copper contacts have a resistance of less than 1Ω and are rated for 10mA at 5Vdc with a lifetime of 50,000 operations. A maximum force ...

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Topological insulator bends light with little loss

Topological insulators are key to bending light around tight corners in tiny spaces with low back-scattering loss, according to engineers at Duke University in the US. The rectangular device is 35 x 5.5μm – said to be 100x smaller than previously demonstrated ring-resonators. By carefully controlling the geometry of a crystal lattice the researchers blocked ...

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New production process at Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic says it has developed a new mass production-capable technology and manufacturing process in collaboration with the organic electronics specialists from BASF. To demonstrate this breakthrough, Plastic Logic has produced prototypes of two new mass-producible 6” display products in 300dpi greyscale and 150dpi colour variants respectively. This impressive improvement has been achieved through advances in Plastic ...

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First whole-human scan by simultaneous PET and CT

  ‘Explore’ is a body scanner that combines positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT). The idea, 13 years ago, of University of California Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, it can produce an image in as little as one second – because, according to the University, the machine captures radiation far more ...

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Imec and Leti combine on AI and quantum computing

Imec and Leti are to join forces on AI and quantum computing. The research centres’ collaboration will focus on developing, testing and experimenting neuromorphic and quantum computing – and should result in the delivery of a digital hardware computing toolbox that can be used by European industry partners to innovate in a wide variety of ...

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SOTB process delivers low-power energy harvesting controller

Renesas has developed an energy-harvesting embedded controller that can eliminate batteries in IoT devices. Based on Renesas’ SOTB (silicon–on–thin–buried–oxide) technology it uses a 32-bit, Arm Cortex-based embedded controller capable of operating up to 64 MHz while consuming 20 μA/MHz active current and 150 nA deep standby current. The R7F0E is a configurable Energy Harvest Controller (EHC) function which enables direct connection to many different types ...

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Government appoints advisers to shape digital ethics rules

Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright (pictured) will today confirm Robert Winston, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Kriti Sharma to shape the work of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. The Centre is chaired by the founder of healthcare data firm Dr Foster, Roger Taylor.  It has been established to make sure the UK is leading the ...

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