ElectroneX 2016 attendees will be treated to a presentation by Jade Vande Camp, an applications engineer at Vibration Research. Vande Camp's presentation will cover damage spectrum and vibration testing. [ + ]

Samsung Australia is voluntarily recalling 51,060 Galaxy Note7 smartphones after a manufacturing fault was discovered in the phones' battery cells. Some phones are reported to have burst into flames while plugged in to charge. [ + ]

The Australian Defence Force's electronic warfare capabilities have been boosted by the approval of a $500 million project to provide electronic warfare equipment and infrastructure to naval ships and army units. [ + ]

Carbon nanotube transistors have so far lagged far behind semiconductors in high-performance electronics. Now, for the first time, materials engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors. [ + ]

ElectroneX opens in Sydney in two weeks. For the first time at the Sydney show, a series of free seminar sessions will be held, covering the latest hot topics in the electronics industry. [ + ]

Iowa State University researchers have successfully treated inkjet-printed graphene circuits and electrodes with a pulsed laser process and discovered that it improves electrical conductivity without damaging paper, polymers or other fragile printing surfaces. [ + ]

Hokkaido University researchers have demonstrated a method of making vertical nanowires with full control over their size, density and distribution over a semiconducting substrate. [ + ]

A research team has clarified the crystal structure of hydrogen sulfide in its superconducting phase at -70°C — a relatively high temperature for superconductors.  [ + ]

STMicroelectronics has announced that two of its executives will deliver keynote speeches at SEMICON Taiwan 2016, to be held from 7–9 September. [ + ]

The first all solid-state wavelength-dependent bipolar photodetectors with fast response times and tuneable switching wavelengths have been described by Japanese Researchers in the journal Applied Physics Express. [ + ]

Vishay's Inductors Division has introduced an online ferrite bead impedance calculator, which is claimed to be the first in the industry. [ + ]

Smarter smartphones could be on the way, thanks to a new theoretical framework that will help physicists and device engineers to design better optoelectronics. The research could lead to optoelectronic devices with less heat generation and power consumption. [ + ]

The IBS Centre for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES) has revised existing theories to explain the working mechanism of iron-based superconductors. [ + ]

Scitech has been appointed the authorised distributor for the Qioptiq range of products in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

By exposing perovskite solar cells to ambient air for several hours after fabrication, their efficiency and effectiveness improves. The strange thing is that, until recently, no-one knew exactly why. [ + ]