ST joins CCC

ST has joined the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a cross-industry organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions. ST’s automotive connectivity portfolio includes thevST25 NFC readers, ST33 Secure Elements, STA12 Accordo infotainment processors, STA13 Telemaco vehicle processors, and Stellar vehicle gateway/domain microcontrollers. ST is in the expanding market for NFC technology as a digital key ...

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First 60 satellites of Musk internet constellation launched

The first 60 satellites of what is intended to become a 12,000 satellite constellation were launched by SpaceX yesterday. The constellation is for Elon Musk’s Starlink high speed internet service for which, he says, he may be signing up customers as early as this year. For the moment, he has to see if all 60 ...

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Mouser Formula-E team 10th in Monaco; heads for Berlin

Following another top-ten finish at the Monaco E-Prix, the Mouser Electronics-sponsored GEOX DRAGON Formula E racing team heads to Germany for the Berlin E-Prix on May 25. At the Monaco E-Prix, driver José María “Pechito” López continued GEOX DRAGON’s successful season, coming in tenth. Mouser is sponsoring the GEOX DRAGONFormula E team throughout the 2018-19 ...

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OmniVision sampling AR/VR CameraCubeChip module

OmniVision is sampling  a camera module with 640×480 VGA resolution. Tere’s a version for AR/VR eye tracking, and a version for machine vision and 3D sensing in mobile facial authentication.  The OVM7251’s sleep current consumption is 5mA, and during active mode, the module’s global shutter enables fast image capture. This combination can result in extended ...

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Analogix design for connecting VR over USB-C

Analogix has produced a VirtualLink Reference Design which enables VirtualLink directly on the motherboard of high-performance gaming notebooks, allowing them to support virtual reality (VR) over the USB-C connector.   External accessories can also leverage the reference design to interface legacy graphics processing units (GPUs) to future VirtualLink-enabled VR head-mounted displays. Introduced by a consortium ...

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Supercomputer predicts better materials for solar and LEDs

Engineers at the University of California San Diego are using a supercomputer to design materials with prospects to improve solar cells and LEDs – finding 13 of the former and 23 of the latter The candidate materials, types of hybrid halide semiconductor, would be stable and exhibit excellent optoelectronic properties. They have an inorganic framework ...

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Why selenium makes CdTe thin film solar cells better

Selenium-alloyed cadmium telluride solar cells can achieve 22.1% solar cell efficiency, but why? asked a team from Loughborough and Colorado State Universities – particularly when cadmium telluride on its own can only hit 19.5%. The addition of selenium reduces the bandgap, but this is only part of the story, it appears. Cathodoluminescence – turning the ...

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