French optical firm Gaggione has proposed a way to compare the evenness of colour in ‘white’ light beams produced by LED lighting – generally that with separate RGBW die as light sources. It is an approximation technique, as is expected to be used in a similar way to other optical approximations such as ‘colour temperature’, ...
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Bridgetek, the Taiwanese subsidiary of Glasgow-owned FTDI, has branched out from chip-making into end-user products – not just individual end-user devices, but complete turn-key end-user systems. Each system, all branded ‘Panl’, is built around networked displays, with some including protocol-converting hubs and interface boxes. At the heart of the displays is the firm’s novel graphics controller ...
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The Design Museum has named an exposé of the human labour, data privacy and environmental impacts of a smart speaker, as the winner of the Beazley Design of the Year. By Kate Crawford of AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler, ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ is both a research project and a complex diagram (extract right) ...
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Planning application is submitted for the development of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)
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Netherlands energy harvesting chip firm Nowi has added further cash to its Series A funding – from Disruptive Technology Ventures (DTV), which also injected money with the Dutch Government in 2018. “This new $10m series A round of funding enables Nowi to further grow the team and complete the transition from start-up to a mature organisation, ...
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Rohde & Schwarz has announced a test system for automotove radar, consisting of the ATS1500C automotive radar test chamber, according to the firm, plus the AREG100A automotive radar echo generator for radar target simulation at various distances. “Together, they form an indirect far-field testing solution for verification of radar sensors throughout the R&D and validation ...
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Japanese researchers created an optical modulator using a thin layer of water, and got surprisingly good results. The Tokyo University of Science team was trying to find a way to exploit the large Pockels effect discovered in water by some of the same scientists in 2007. This effect is the linear change in refractive index with ...
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ST Microelectronics has extended its multi-year silicon carbide wafer deal with Cree, taking it to over $500m in total value. Cree will supply 150mm bare and epitaxial silicon carbide wafers to ST over “several years”, according to Cree. “Expanding our long-term wafer supply agreement with Cree will increase the flexibility of our global silicon carbide substrate ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor has introduced 45V and 60V trench Schottky rectifiers in a TO-277A-compatible SMPC4.6U package, and qualified to AEC-Q101 for the automotive market. The surface-mount package is only 1.1mm high and has wettable flanks for automated optical inspection. The parts are TSUPxM45SH or TSUPxM60SH, depending on whther the current rating is 45A or 60A, and the ‘x’ ...
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Netherlands lighting firm has unveiled facilities for 3d printing light shades and luminaires in Europe, and plans to establish 3D printing factories in the US, India and Indonesia. ” We are the first lighting manufacturer to produce 3D printed luminaires on an industrial scale. The company has perfected this flexible, more sustainable form of manufacturing, using ...
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