Gas Sensing Solutions has doubled the size of its manufacturing facility and offices in Cumbernauld to meet demand for its products, and has certified to ISO 9001:2015. The firm makes CO2 sensors, including the LEDs that go inside them, and sells them into applications including health and safety monitoring, and health care. “We manufacture the sensors in-house,” ...
This story continues at Gas Sensing Solutions doubles Scottish manufacturing
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
US researchers have created a non-natural material that could improve heat extraction from semiconductors, and is the first of a previously-predicted class of high thermal conductivity materials. If it could be made to exist, boron arsenide with a cubic crystal structure was calculated to have a high thermal conductivity – and now it has been made, ...
This story continues at Boron arsenide removes heat quicker, second only to diamond
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
Japanese researchers have found a new spin on the old themo-electric generator game of minimising thermal conductivity while maximising output power, achieving of 12μW/cm2 from a thermal difference of only 5ºC. From Waseda, Osaka and Shizuoka Universities, the team has turned to a novel arrangement silicon nano-wires. “Due to advantages such as its relatively low thermal conductance but ...
This story continues at Thermoelectric generator powers IoT sensors on only 5ºC from body heat
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
MediaTek has selected luton-based Anritsu’s MT8000A radio communication test station to verify MediaTek’s 5G NR mobile communication base-band chip-set. It will be used from early phase pre-silicon verification through to commercial validation of RF, protocol and function for product launch. Anritsu designed its MT8000A to work with wide-band signal processing and beam-forming, supporting sub-6GHz and millimeter-wave ...
This story continues at MediaTek goes to Anritsu for 5G chip-set verification
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
MIT has taught its 40kg Cheetah 3 robot to run across rough terrain and climb litter-strewn staircases by touch alone. “There are many unexpected behaviours the robot should be able to handle without relying too much on vision,” said MIT robot designer Sangbae Kim. “If you rely too much on vision, your robot has to ...
This story continues at MIT removes the need for vision in stair-climbing robot
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
Texas Instruments has created a 16bit ADC that runs from as little as 315µA. Called ADS112C04, it is a ΣΔ device that will run from supplies between 2.3 and 5.5 V over -40 to +125°C. Interfacing on the digital side is I2C-compatible two-wire at up to 1Mbit/s, with two address pins that allow selection of 16 different ...
This story continues at 16bit ADC runs from as little as 315µA or 2.3V
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
Toshiba is automotive applications with a high-speed analogue-output optocoupler. Comms in electric and hybrid-electric vehicles is the main target. TLX9309 is AEC-Q101 qualified and consists of a GaAlAs LED optically-coupled to a photo-diode backed by an amplifying transistor. By separating the photo-diode and amplification transistor, said the firm, collector capacitance is reduced, cutting propagation delay ...
This story continues at Fast opto-coupler for automotive
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
Rohm is aiming at high-accuracy sensing with a low-noise CMOS op-amp. Accelerometers used in sonar systems and optical sensors are potential applications. LMR1802G-LB achieves input equivalent noise of 2.9nV/√Hz at 1kHz, and 7.8nV/√Hz at 10Hz – according to the firm, it created a new differential input stage circuit to get these figures. It also has 68° ...
This story continues at CMOS op-amp achieves 2.9nV/√Hz and 5μV for sensing
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
Murata has announced the 1kW quarter brick dc-dc converter. The fully regulated DRQ-11.4/88-L48xx series provides 11.4V output at 88A, with a Vin Range of 36 to 60Vdc, operating from 48V battery systems or 54V networking equipment. Efficiency peaks at 97%. Developed by Murata Power Solutions to the industry standard DOSA high power 1/4 brick specification, the ...
This story continues at Quarter brick hits 1kW and 97% efficiency for telecoms
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
For USB3.2 SuperSpeed and USB Type-C interfaces, Nexperia has introduced ESD protection devices. “The new USB3.2 standard introduces an optional capacitor at the Rx inputs, so Nexperia is launching two groups of devices, one that delivers high surge robustness for positioning between the connector and capacitor, and a second that has a low trigger voltage ...
This story continues at Protection for USB3.2 SuperSpeed and USB Type-C
Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly
