Heraeus Electronic Chemicals of Germany is promoting its Clevios HY E conductive film for foldable touchscreen use. It is a hybrid material, of silver nanowires (to raise conductivity) and conductive PEDOT polymers. “In tests, films coated with Clevios HY E have been folded more than 300,000 times with a bending radius of 1mm with no impairment ...
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An electronic copy of human skin can detect force, and the direction of that force. When griping with thumb and fingers, a robot hand using this could sense both the weight of an object and the force applied to it, allowing more sophisticated manipulation. “This technology puts us on a path to one day giving robots ...
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plasmonic receiver that can convert millimetre waves directly into light for an optical fibre. “Our modulator is completely independent of external power supplies and, on top of that, extremely small so that it can, in principle, be mounted on any lamppost. From there, it can then receive data ...
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Renesas has come up with a new IO-Link master development kit to accelerate IO-Link-based application development for industrial networked devices in a smart factory. The development kit includes a board and pre-qualified sample software provided by TMG. The board has eight IO-Link connecters allowing developers to immediately connect IO-Link slave devices and start the evaluation ...
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The German component distribution market reported solid but sluggish growth for the third quarter of 2018. According to the distribution companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.), sales during the period July to September 2018 grew by 4.7% to reach 980 million euros. The pattern of orders continued the trend of previous quarters, ...
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Plextek RFI, the Cambridge design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design, has designed and supplied a microwave power amplifier (PA) module for California-based satellite manufacturer and space mission operator Astro Digital. The module designed by Plextek RFI incorporates a power GaN output device and a GaAs driver circuit. It will form part of a propulsion system ...
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Premier Farnell has enhanced its maintenance and safety offering by expanding its range of products from leading global suppliers and introducing a dedicated maintenance and safety area on its website. The new resource provides a range of support information including videos, technical data and industry guideline, as well as covering new developments in the world ...
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Packaging dedicated to automotive electronics is growing and will be a $7 billion sector in 2023, say analysts Yole Developpement. Despite the high degree of regulation, consumer packaging types are slowly adapted to, and adopted by, the automotive market. The market is showing significant market drivers that are supporting the growth, says Yole: electrification, connectivity, ...
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ADI and Princeton University have produced a processor using in-memory computing which computes using on-chip storage to avoid the power penalty involved in fetching data from outside the chip. They mark the chips: ‘ProgInMem’ The chip is designed for deep-learning inference systems such as self-driving vehicles, facial recognition systems and medical diagnostic software where ...
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