Ten thousand working transistors placed on a single chip using standard semiconductor processes. [ + ]

Rather than just being something that can infect you, your dog or your computer and make you all sick, a new breed of viruses is able to generate harnessable electricity. [ + ]

For the first time, researchers have powered an implantable electronic device using an electrical potential - a natural battery - deep in the inner ear. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a solar cell made entirely of carbon, an inexpensive substitute for the pricey materials used in conventional solar panels. [ + ]

Sensors and other electronics are usually made of rigid and stiff material such as metals and plastics - they cannot be stretched, twisted or thrown and should be handled with care. But that is about to change with the advent of stretchable electronics. [ + ]

Researchers at Rice University in the US have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be spray painted onto virtually any surface. [ + ]

Sechan Electronics is a contract manufacturing services company committed to developing, testing and manufacturing military electronics systems and subsystems for the US Department of Defense and Prime Contractors. When Sechan need a replacement for its paper-based defect mapping process, it chose Aegis’s Quality System - a decision that has paid off handsomely for the company. [ + ]

Using an outdated mobile phone and a simple sensor to measure respiration rates, an Australian student is showing how electronic engineers can contribute to society. [ + ]

Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon, researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circuits without the high interface resistance produced by traditional fabrication techniques. [ + ]

The dilute magnetic semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide could open up an entirely new class of faster, smaller devices based on ‘spintronics’. Materials of this type might be used to read and write digital information, not by using the electron’s charge, as is the case with today’s electronic devices, but by using its ‘spin’. [ + ]

The adoption of the ISO standard initially gave rise to major concerns about an increase in development costs and device die sizes within the semiconductor industry. [ + ]

I don’t know about you but I am mightily underwhelmed by hybrid cars. True, they are full of sophisticated electronics and true they do go some way towards satisfying the consciences of greenies. But, on the down side, they are expensive, they are complex, they have limited range in their electrical mode and there are few places to charge the batteries other than in your own garage. To me they are bisexual products of a motor industry that has reluctantly pandered to ill-conceived demands from governments intent on being seen to be saving the planet. [ + ]

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan universities in China has demonstrated integrated arrays of emitters of so-called “optical vortex beams” onto a silicon chip. [ + ]

To move to the next level of personal navigators electronics engineers need the next generation of microsensors. [ + ]

A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion. [ + ]