Carbon electrode leads to 500Wh/kg lithium-air battery

The Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and SoftBank have developed a 500Wh/kg lithium-air battery. “Despite their very high theoretical energy densities, only a small number of lithium-air batteries with high energy densities have actually been fabricated and evaluated,” according to NIMS. “This limited success is attributed to the fact that a large proportion by ...

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Sense turbidity through a Click board

MikroElektronika has introduced a sensor and interface board for measuring turbidity – the cloudiness of a liquid. Turbidity Click Bundle incudes a populated PCB conforming to the company’s Click interface standard, and Amphenol TSD-10 turbidity sensor, and a 150mm wire with the appropriate connectors on the end. TO get an ide of size, the slotted ...

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A piece of paper knocks the cost out of perovskite solar cell creation

Italian and Iranian scientists have replaced spin-coating with a simple piece of paper in a process to make perovskite solar cells. Spin coating is much like children’s spin painting, except that close control of process parameters results in the deposition of a continuous thin even film on the substrate. If aiming to deposit a poly-crystalline ...

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Siemens Digital and UMC co-develop BCD PDKs

Siemens Digital Industries Software and UMC are co-developing PDK’s for the foundry’s 110nm and 170nm BCD procecesses. The PDKs are optimised for Siemens EDA’s Tanner custom design flow software. Siemens’ custom IC design kits built using its Tanner software are now available for UMC’s BCD processes. The foundry’s 110-nm and 180-nm BCD platforms aim to ...

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Semis grow 25%

Semiconductor revenue increased 25.1% in 2021 to total $583.5 billion, says Gartner. “As the global economy bounced back in 2021, shortages appeared throughout the semiconductor supply chain, particularly in the automotive industry,” said Gartner vo Andrew Norwood, “the resulting combination of strong demand as well as logistics and raw material price increases drove semiconductors’ ASP higher contributing ...

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Arm releases Morello evaluation board

Arm has released the Morello evaluation board which is being made available to partners for the first time. The Morello prototype architecture, developed at Arm based on the CHERI technology has been prototyped in a specially designed demonstrator Armv8.2-A SoC. The aim is to prevent memory security breaches in the underlying hardware in future, rather ...

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ESA preps call for Young Graduate Trainee opportunities

The European Space Agency (ESA) is about to open its call for 2022 Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) opportunities. Established in 1983, the YGT Programme lasts for one year (with possible extension to a second year) and gives an opportunity to work on European space missions. Basically, every year in February, the ESA publishes around 100 ...

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Toshiba opens high voltage laboratory in Germany

Toshiba has established a European high-voltage laboratory in Germany for automotive and industrial markets. “In line with the company’s shift in focus towards more power-related products, Toshiba invested this year in infrastructure and equipment such as high voltage power sources, loads and measuring equipment,” said Toshiba, The lab will will support European customers, particularly for silicon carbide ...

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