A drone that can fold-up during flight to get through narrow gaps has been created by the University of Zurich. Servo-driven sideways folding hinges allow it to adopt normal, long-thin and compact configurations and, crucially, its real-time control system adjusts rotor thrust to retain controlled stable flight as morphing shifts the center of gravity. “Our ...
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STMicroelectronics’ MDmesh M6 600V super-junction transistors are aimed at medium-power resonant and hard-switching converter topologies. There are 37 part numbers covering 13 to 72A, with threshold voltage optimised for soft switching, suiting the transistors LLC resonant converters and boost-PFC converters. Rds(on) to as low as 36mΩ. For hard-switching topologies, the capacitance profile is claimed to enhance ...
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A CTO has been appointed for the fledgling Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult growing in Cardiff. It is Martin McHugh, who most recently headed up business and technology development for Microsemi’s (now part of Microchip) advanced packaging business. “He brings with him a wealth of technology experience having worked in technical and commercial roles with responsibilities covering the ...
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Osram is aiming at farmers, horticulturists and viticulturists with a broad-band near-infra-red LED for in-field reflection spectroscopy. “One of the most important decisions that farmers and vineyard owners have to make involves getting the timing right for the harvest,” it said. “Simply scanning fruit or cereal crops with the near-infra-red LED installed in a smartphone ...
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Nottingham Trent University has developed a way to embed miniature solar cells into yarn that it said allows them to be knitted and woven into textiles: “The cells are encapsulated in a resin which allows the textile fabric to be washed and worn like any other form of clothing.” “Clothing would look and behave like ...
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Siglent is aiming at analogue circuit design and service departments with 2Gsample/s oscilloscopes. Available with a choice of 200 or 350MHz bandwidth, the SDS2000X-E – where the trailing E stands for economy models, said the firm. 28Mpoint of acquisition memory is available as standard, as is an update rate of up 110,000waveform/s. “Low noise front ...
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Infineon is claiming a first, with an industrial-grade embedded SIM (eSIM) in a 2.5 x 2.7mm wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP). It is aimed at machine-to-machine comms and IoT applications, for example vending machines, remote sensors and asset trackers. “Providing robust quality on a miniature footprint that works even under harshest conditions remains a challenge for silicon ...
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Devon-based Ashwoods Electric Motors has chosen torque sensors from Isle-of-Wight-based Datum for its suite of automated dynamometers, which Ashwoods designed in-house. “The team wanted a relatively small torque sensor that could fit into their existing dynamometers to ensure the electric motor operate at optimal efficiency,” claimed Datum. Chosen was the M425 sensor, which has a wide-enough operation ...
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The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to be a partner of The University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC). GEIC (pronounced ‘geek’, and officially opened yesterday), is the University’s second graphene facility – the other is the National Graphene Institute (NGI) – see below. “Together the two centres cement Manchester’s position as the home of ...
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White-hot liquid silicon could be the key to storing the vast amounts of energy needed to run a renewables-based national power grid, according to MIT, which claims it “would be vastly more affordable than lithium-ion batteries” and “would cost about half as much as pumped hydroelectric storage, the cheapest form of grid-scale energy storage to ...
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