An easily applied patch on fabric could be used to power wearables, according to Korean research lab KAIST. It is based on the ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene), built into a heterostructure with two conductive fabrics (diagram right), which can then be applied to fabric by a similar hot-pressing process to that used to attach graphics ...
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Cambridgeshire-based Paragraf has had its graphene-based Hall magnetic field sensor tested for radiation toughness by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). “Tests conducted by NPL have shown that following exposure to a neutron dose of 241mSv/hr, which is about 30,000 times the expected typical neutron dose rate in the International Space Station, Paragraf’s sensors are not affected ...
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University of Houston have created an elastic semiconductor with 8.57cm2/Vs charge carrier mobility, and then made transistors, logic and a sensor array from it. Carrier mobility is largely retained when stretched by 50%. The semiconductor concerned is poly(3-hexylthiophene) – ‘P3HT’. This is not the first time the team has made stretchy transistors from this material, but it ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is looking to tackle the issue of space junk – seven UK companies have been awarded a share of £1m of funding to help track debris in space. UKSA estimates that there are currently 160 million objects in orbit – mainly debris – that could collide with satellites providing services ...
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Farnell and Rohde & Schwarz are holding virtual events covering the fundamentals of oscilloscope set-up, design and applications. The event will consist of multiple webinars that will run across two days, 22nd and 23rdSeptember, with local language presentations in English, French and German. The schedule for the webinars is: Tuesday, 22nd September, 2020 09:00am – ...
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Electronics production is healthy, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The chart below shows the three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12 change) in electronics production (measured in local currency) for the major Asian producers. China is the largest electronics manufacturing country and outbreak. In 2018, China electronics production growth averaged 13% versus the prior year. ...
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If approved, the Arm-Nvidia deal will be the largest semiconductor acquisition in history, provided the additional $5 billion cash/stock payment is included for the business achieving financial targets, says IC Insights. The acquisition, which is expected to take 18 months to complete (around March 2022), would top Avago’s 2015 deal to buy Broadcom for $37 ...
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Antaios, a SOT-MRAM (Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory) startup, has secured $11 million to accelerate innovation and develop new strategic partnerships. The investment comes from technology funds focused on identifying and fostering promising, fast-growth, early-stage technology companies. It is led by French VC firms Innovacom and Sofimac Innovation, together with Silicon Valley-based Applied Ventures, LLC, the ...
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for ICs. The approach enables a coherent light source design on the scale smaller than the wavelength of light emitted by the laser. This enables ultrafast optical data transfer in microprocessors. ...
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Lattice has added to its MachXO3L and MachXO3D that support extended temperature operating ranges for automotive and other ruggedised applications. MachXO3D FPGAs augment the popular system control capabilities of the Lattice MachXO FPGA architecture with industry-leading security features, including hardware Root-of-Trust (RoT), platform firmware resilience (PFR), and secure dual-boot support. The MachXO3D and MachXO3LF devices ...
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