‘Sustainable’ RFID antennas
26 June, 2012Manufacturing RFID antennas through etching is now being challenged by a technology that uses a dry production process and paper as the substrate.
Ford testing for EMC
30 May, 2012Ford EMC group has recognised an EMC Technologies lab in Melbourne. Component and subsystem EMC testing must be performed by EMC test laboratories recognised by Ford.
Electronic ‘nose’ sniffs out compounds
23 May, 2012An electronic ‘nose’ has been developed that can detect volatile organic compounds.
Low-voltage sensor from superconducting strip?
17 May, 2012Researchers found an intermittent motion of magnetic flux carved into a superconducting strip.
14 nm development kit released
15 May, 2012Imec has released an early-version PDK for 14 nm logic chips.
Radio waves trigger insulin production
15 May, 2012Radio waves have been used to remotely switch on engineered insulin-producing genes in mice.
Advantech joins recycling scheme
09 May, 2012Advantech has joined a recycling scheme to help boost the recycling rate of televisions and computers from 17% in 2010 to 80% by 2021-22.
High efficiency organic LEDs
27 March, 2012Solvay and the Holst Centre have demonstrated high efficiency flexible OLED lighting tiles with a surface area of 69 cm2
New method for making nanoparticles
26 March, 2012An engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleagues at the University of Utah have discovered a new method of making nanoparticles and nanofilms that could be used in developing better electronic devices, biosensors and certain types of high-powered and highly specific microscopes used for scientific research.
Oxide thin films open new doors
26 March, 2012Researchers have developed, what they claim to be, the first functional oxide thin films that can be used efficiently in electronics.
Biosensor chips for diagnostics
21 March, 2012Imec and Genalyte have produced a set of disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips.
Heat used to record information
16 March, 2012A team of scientists has demonstrated a way to process information hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.
Embedded group formed
07 March, 2012SGET has been established to develop and maintain worldwide valid embedded computing specifications.
MatLab speeds Chinese development time
21 February, 2012DOCOMO has adopted MatLab to develop and verify algorithms for the development of new physical layer mobile communications technologies for standards such as LTE-A.
Tetrahertz ICs coming closer
15 February, 2012A team at Interuniveritair Micro-Electronica Centrum Vzw (imec) in Belgium recently introduced the device fT.fMAX 245/450 GHz SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor. It will help facilitate future high-volume millimetre-wave low-power circuits to be used in motor vehicle radar applications.
