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• Semtech aims LoRa gateway at home IoT nets

  02-12-2016 15:29 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Semtech, which was recognised at this week’s Elektra Awards in London, has come up with a reference design for an indoor multi-band picocell basestation incorporating the LoRa long range IoT wireless standard. The reference design is based on Semtech’s SX1308 picocell gateway IC along with the SX1255 or SX1257 LoRa RF transceivers. The likely market is in-the-home internet of things ...
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• Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2016 – The Winners

  02-12-2016 12:35 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented last night, and here are the pictures of all the winners. You can read the full list of winners, with details of the awards – see Elektra Awards 2016: The Winners – but pictures from the Gala Dinner last night, at the Grosvenor House Hotel, follow below ...
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• Implantable drug delivery device fights cancer while maintaining patients’ health

  02-12-2016 12:34
  
  An implantable device incorporating nanofluidic technology will allow drugs for cancer and other ailments to be delivered more effectively and without damaging the general health of the patient, thanks to research from the University of Texas, San Antonio.
  The nDSmini nanofluidic device, shown in section and being implanted.The device, developed by Dr Lyle Hood, a mechanical engineer, working with nanotechnology specialist Alessandro Grattoni of Houston Methodist Research Institute, can be used
  
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• Updated: Diamond nuclear battery could generate 100μW for 5,000 years

  02-12-2016 12:30 via electronicsweekly.com
  Synthetic diamond made from carbon-14 could become a long-term electrical power source, according to a team at the University of Bristol. “There are no moving parts involved, no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation,” said Professor Tom Scott of the University’s Interface Analysis Centre. “By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds, we ...
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• 3D XPoint SSDs due for volume production in Q2

  02-12-2016 12:29 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  3D XPoint, Intel’s ‘new class of memory’, will finally hit the street in Q2 2017 in the form of an SSD reports Digitimes. Engineering samples of the SSD which is branded Optane, have been given to selected customers, it is reported. Mass production is planned in Q2 for the technology which was launched in June ...
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• Australian researchers set Perovskite efficiency record

  02-12-2016 12:00
  
  Engineers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have claimed a new efficiency record for perovskite solar cells.
  The team, led by Anita Ho-Baillie, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) demonstrated an efficiency rating of 12.1 per cent on a 16cm² perovskite solar cell. The results, verified by international testing centre Newport Corp, represent the highest efficiency rating with the largest perovskite solar cells to date.
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• BAE Systems opens £15.6m aerospace academy

  02-12-2016 11:56
  
  A new £15.6m training facility has been officially opened by BAE Systems in Lancashire, marking the largest ever single investment in UK aerospace skills.
  (Credit: Ray Troll)The 7,400m² Academy for Skills & Knowledge (ASK) will provide training for apprentices and graduates, as well as further education and development for long term employees. Located in the Samlesbury Aerospace Enterprise Zone alongside BAE Systems’ military aircraft advanced manufacturing centre, the new f
  
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• Sussex student wins award for graphene car battery

  02-12-2016 11:54 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  A student engineer from the University of Sussex has won the ‘Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award’ for designing a vehicle battery that charges quickly. Josh de Wit, a second-year mechanical engineering student, exploited the qualities of graphene. A car battery made with stacked graphene, according to de Wit, would take far less time to charge, store ...
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• Hydrogen production given an edge by molybdenum sulphide

  02-12-2016 11:50
  
  Researchers have found that molybdenum sulphide (MoS2) could be a more productive as a catalyst for hydrogen production than previously thought.
  The researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University, NC and Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY found that the entire surface of MoS2 can be used as a catalyst, not just the edges of the material.
  “The key finding here is that the intrinsic catalytic performance of MoS2 is much better than the research community thought,” sa
  
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• Diamond nuclear battery could generate 100μW for 5,000 years

  02-12-2016 11:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  Synthetic diamond made from carbon-14 could become a long-term electrical power source, according to a team at the University of Bristol. “There are no moving parts involved, no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation,” said Professor Tom Scott of the University’s Interface Analysis Centre. “By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds, we ...
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• Milestones and curiosities from The Engineer’s archives

  02-12-2016 11:06
  
  A newly published supplement examines The Engineer’s coverage of some of the biggest, and strangest, engineering stories of the past 160 years
  As you may have noticed, we’ve been celebrating a significant milestone over the past 12 months: The Engineer’s 160th birthday.
  Throughout the year, we’ve published a number of articles marking the astonishing industrial progress that’s been made since our launch in 1856.
  Our Victorian forbears would surely marvel at modern d
  
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• Elektra Awards 2016 – The Winners

  02-12-2016 09:37 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 - find out the winners from the gala evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane.
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