The cars and aircraft of the future will be safer and the buildings and production lines more efficient thanks to wireless sensors powered by tiny generators being developed at ANU

Agilent has announced a colour management system for backlighting LCD flat-panel TVs that delivers 25% more brilliant colours than current fluorescent backlighting

With the advent of faster FPGAs with sizeable quantities of RAM, it's becoming possible to breathe new life into old micro designs whose days would otherwise be numbered

It is well known that the first few Collins class submarines suffered from a higher level of noise emissions at the beginning of their service life than was desirable. The good news is that the early issues are being successfully corrected.

Two electrochemists at Massey University have come up with a formula that could rock the foundations of the $200 billion global battery market. Keith Newman backgrounds this new 'disruptive technology'

This article looks at variables in measuring low resistance values and the errors that may occur in making those measurements

For most electronic systems, monitoring system voltages with a power-on reset (POR) ensures proper initialisation at power-up

For most electronic systems, monitoring system voltages with a power-on reset (POR) ensures proper initialisation at power-up. Detecting brownout conditions with a POR minimises possible code-execution problems that can corrupt memory

David Muller, assoc prof of applied and engineering physics, inserts a sample into the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) in his Duffield Hall laboratory

When we think isolation in the electronics context, we think of the transformer. Magnetic fields transfer information without an electrical connection between primary and secondary windings creating the isolation barrier

During the last 20 years, three basic battery rapid test methods have emerged. All methods are resistance based, a characteristic that reveals the battery's ability to deliver load current

Semiconductor manufacturers are busily trying to anticipate what the future market will demand of them. Toshiba is just one company that is looking into the future and it has outlined what it sees in its latest 'strategic memory roadmaps'

This short technical note is about minimising harmonics; yet there will be those who don't as yet realise the extent to which harmonics cost money

Over the years, tutorials have appeared in EMC journals explaining how to estimate the power required from a power amplifier intended for use in an RF immunity test system. Little material has explored the issue of gain compression in RF power amplifiers

Scientists at Philips have developed new methods to significantly increase the efficiency of PolyLED polymer OLED displays. This opens the way to lower power consumption and will further strengthen the advantages of polymer OLED