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• Metasurface converts sunlight to heat for electron emission

  17-06-2016 15:13 via electronicsweekly.com
  Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter have created a metasurface that strongly absorbs light across the solar spectrum but minimises emission of thermal radiation. It uses uses amorphous carbon as an inter-layer between thin gold films with the upper film patterned with a 2D periodic array using focused ion beam etching. Gold is a first step, ...
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• Oxford spin-out develops low-cost pressure regulator

  17-06-2016 13:47
  
  A smaller, lighter, and more efficient pressure regulator could significantly reduce the need for water pipe inspection and maintenance, cutting costs and minimising disruption.The regulator, developed by Oxford Flow, a spin-out from Oxford University and backed by a £320m investment group, is 80 per cent lighter than existing technologies, and has 10 times the flow capacity for its size. It is also 50 per cent cheaper to manufacture than existing devices.
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• Tim Peake can be a catalyst for more UK space missions

  17-06-2016 13:43
  
  Andrew WadeSenior reporterIf everything goes according to plan, by this time tomorrow Major Tim Peake will be back on terra firma following his six-month mission on board the ISS. His return home in the Soyuz capsule will see him travelling at 25 times the speed of sound, surrounded by superheated atmospheric plasma at temperatures touching 2,500°C.
  (Credit: ESA/NASA)With the capsule already decelerating, parachutes will open about 11km above the Earth’s surface to further slow the de
  
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• GPUs bring scalable processing to machine vision


  17-06-2016 13:34 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The industry should machine vision technology more user-friendly because this cutting-edge field has dramatic and positive potential for embedded applications, writes Stephen Turnbull. At its core, machine vision is simply leveraging the information available in an image to make a decision about what to do next with the object in the image. A simple pass/fail ...
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• Bluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed

  17-06-2016 13:27 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  As well as increasing the range and speed of Bluetooth transmissions, the next version – dubbed simply Bluetooth 5 – will also increase its broadcast messaging capabilities, for beacon operation and location services. The Bluetooth SIG promises Bluetooth 5 will quadruple its range to up to around 400m and will also double its speed. Broadcast ...
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• LoRaWAN brings IoT to Rome

  17-06-2016 13:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Rome-based telecoms operator Unidata has adopted the LoRaWAN technology platform to deploy a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) in Italy. This follows news that Orange is deploying LoRa wide area wireless networks for smart cities in France. Unidata will also promote the IoT wireless technology with a demonstration lab in Rome LoRa technology supplied ...
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• LoRa brings IoT to Rome

  17-06-2016 13:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  Rome-based telecoms operator Unidata has adopted the LoRaWAN technology platform to deploy a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) in Italy. This follows news that Orange is deploying LoRa wide area wireless networks for smart cities in France. Unidata will also promote the IoT wireless technology with a demonstration lab in Rome LoRa technology supplied ...
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• Promoted Content: It’s About Time – Evolving Network Standards for the Industrial IoT

  17-06-2016 12:36
  
  Industrial Internet of ThingsThe Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises a world of smarter, hyper-connected devices and infrastructure where electrical grids, manufacturing machines, and transportation systems are outfitted with embedded sensing, processing, control and analysis capabilities.Once networked together, they’ll create a smart system of systems that shares data between devices, across the enterprise and in the cloud. These systems will generate incredible amounts of data
  
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• Intel discusses IoT security at Leti conference

  17-06-2016 12:31 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  French microelectronics research organisation Leti is hosting a one-day conference discussing security of IoT devices and applications. Called “System Reliability & Security in a Connected World” the conference will take place in Lyon on June 23. According to Alain Merle, Leti’s strategic marketing manager for security, new technologies are needed to provide privacy and security ...
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• E-nose sniffs opportunity for health monitoring

  17-06-2016 12:11 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  As high-speed electronics replaces micromachines and chemicals, the electronic nose (e-nose) could get cheaper. Aimed at health monitoring through breath analysis, the e-nose has been designed at the University of Texas Dallas and performs ‘rotational spectroscopy’ at over 200GHz using a 65nm CMOS chips. “There have been many efforts to build an electronic nose,” said ...
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• PC and tablet units to drop 2%

  17-06-2016 11:46 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  The market for PCs and tablets will fall 2% this year following the 8% fall last year, says IC Insights. The markets for PCs and tablets continue to fall as more users delay replacement purchases and increase their reliance on smartphones for mobile-computing applications and access to the Internet. Worldwide shipments of PCs and tablets ...
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• ADI adds processors to SHARC

  17-06-2016 11:35 via electronicsweekly.com
  
  ADI has added ADSP-SC57x and ADSP-2157x processors to its series of single-chip multicore SHARC processors. The devices advance the audio experience by enabling superior sound quality and more cost-effective and reliable audio systems. The new processor platform meets automotive temperature ranges without the need for costly, bulky heat sinks or fans, which saves space in ...
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• Material and manufacturing process produces corrosion inhibitor “comparable to chromate”

  17-06-2016 10:42
  
  A material and manufacturing process developed at Swansea University could be at the forefront of the multi-billion corrosion inhibitor industry when hexavalent chromate is phased out.
  Looking at steel at the atomic level in the imaging suite: l-r Dr Adrian Walters, SPECIFIC: Prof Geraint Williams, College of Engineering; Patrick Dodds, Tata Steel and Swansea UniversityCorrosion inhibitors have a variety of applications and are commonly used to coat and protect steel products. To date, hexavalen
  
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