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• Researchers boost microwave signal stability a hundredfold

  21-05-2020 21:18 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have used state-of-the-art atomic clocks, advanced light detectors, and a measurement tool called a frequency comb to boost the stability of microwave signals 100-fold. This marks a giant step toward better electronics to enable more accurate time dissemination, improved navigation, more reliable communications and higher-resolution imaging for radar and astronomy.
  
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• 'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream

  21-05-2020 17:25 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Engineers are the first to build a high-performance non-reciprocal device on a compact chip with a performance 25 times better than previous work. The new chip, which can handle several watts of power (enough for cellphone transmitters that put out a watt or so of power), was the leading performer in a DARPA SPAR program to miniaturize these devices and improve performance metrics.
  
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• Novel device harnesses shadows to generate electricity

  21-05-2020 16:21 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have created a device called a 'shadow-effect energy generator' that makes use of the contrast in illumination between lit and shadowed areas to generate electricity. This novel concept opens up new approaches in harnessing indoor lighting conditions to power electronics.
  
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• SimpleMachines selects UltraSoC embedded analytics to support next-generation compute platform

  21-05-2020 15:00 via realwire.com
  
  Composable Computing Platform future-proofed against needs of future computing paradigms CAMBRIDGE, UK – 21 May 2020 UltraSoC today announced that its embedded analytics technology has been selected by SimpleMachines, Inc (SMI) for use within SMI’s innovative Composable Computing Platform. UltraSoC’s technology will allow SMI and its customers to gain an intimate understanding of the behavior of the hardware and software within the company’s products, which are targeted a
  
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• Researchers breaking new ground in materials science

  20-05-2020 18:50 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A new study could usher in a revolutionary development in materials science, leading to big changes in the way companies create modern electronics.
  
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• Quantum leap: Photon discovery is a major step toward at-scale quantum technologies

  20-05-2020 18:49 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A team of physicists has developed the first integrated photon source with the potential to deliver large-scale quantum photonics. The development of quantum technologies promises to have a profound impact across science, engineering and society. Quantum computers at scale will be able to solve problems intractable on even the most powerful current supercomputers, with many revolutionary applications, for example, in the design of new drugs and materials.
  
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• Riddled with holes: Making flexible thin-film electronics more durable

  18-05-2020 17:17 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have developed a simple approach for controlling the otherwise random formation of cracks in flexible thin-film conductors, greatly increasing the durability of flexible electrodes and transistors against bending and folding.
  
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• Research takes electrons for a spin in moving toward more efficient, higher density data storage

  18-05-2020 17:16 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have demonstrated a new mechanism involving electron motion in magnetic materials that points to new ways to potentially enhance data storage.
  
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• UltraSoC appoints Jonathan Lucas as VP of Software

  18-05-2020 16:02 via realwire.com
  Former director of Icera and Five.AI brings real-time embedded and ML experience CAMBRIDGE, UK – 18 May 2020 UltraSoC has announced the appointment of Jonathan Lucas as VP of Software. His 30 years of software engineering and senior management experience, with specific strengths in embedded and machine-learning systems, will support the application of the company’s analytics technology in emerging data-centric applications including automotive and cybersecurity. In addition to his si
  
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• Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states

  15-05-2020 19:19 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Until now, electron spins and orbitals were thought to go hand in hand in a class of materials that's the cornerstone of modern information technology; you couldn't quickly change one without changing the other. But a new study shows that a pulse of laser light can dramatically change the spin state of one important class of materials while leaving its orbital state intact.
  
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• Observation of intervalley transitions can boost valleytronic science and technology

  15-05-2020 19:19 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  An international research team has observed light emission from a new type of transition between electronic valleys, known as intervalley transmissions. The research provides a new way to read out valley information, potentially leading to new types of devices.
  
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• Making quantum 'waves' in ultrathin materials

  14-05-2020 19:17 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A team of researchers has observed unusually long-lived wavelike electrons called 'plasmons' in a new class of electronically conducting material. Plasmons are very important for determining the optical and electronic properties of metals for the development of new sensors and communication devices.
  
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• Rolls-Royce signs Iotics to power its Digital Twin Technology

  14-05-2020 10:55 via realwire.com
  
  Rolls-Royce Power Systems adopts Iotics’ operating environment and toolset to expand its digital ecosystem and deliver Customer Service 4.0 14 May 2020: Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems, has selected Iotics’ technology to enable digital solutions with asset-focused digital twins. Iotics’ technology delivers Rolls-Royce the capability to unlock over 200 data sources, brokering interactions to create digital twins of their in-field assets, and receive real-time event insig
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER enables continuous electric vehicle charging at 500 A

  14-05-2020 09:30 via realwire.com
  
  HUBER+SUHNER, a leading global supplier of electrical and optical connectivity solutions, has today launched the RADOX® HPC500; a new addition to the RADOX® high power charging portfolio. It is the world’s first cooled charging cable system that allows continuous charging at 500 Amperes even in high-temperature environments. The HPC500 cable and connecter builds on the proven performance and design of the HPC400 family, as well as the extensive field experience and continuous innov
  
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• Atomically thin magnets for next generation spin and quantum electronics

  13-05-2020 20:37 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  In 2005, Science asked if it was possible to develop a magnetic semiconductor that could work at room temperature. Now, just fifteen years later, researchers have developed those materials in two-dimensional form, solving one of science's most intractable problems.
  
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• Coordination polymer glass provides solid support for hydrogen fuel cells

  13-05-2020 14:18 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists are synthesizing stronger and more efficient materials for hydrogen fuel cell membranes. Most fuel cells currently on the market employ liquid membranes. A new coordination polymer glass membrane works just as well as its liquid counterparts with added strength and flexibility.
  
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• Future information technologies: 3D quantum spin liquid revealed

  11-05-2020 17:26 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Quantum spin liquids are candidates for potential use in future information technologies. So far, quantum spin liquids have usually only been found in one or two dimensional magnetic systems only. Now an international team has investigated crystals of PbCuTe2O6 with neutron experiments.
  
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• Computer vision helps scientists study lithium ion batteries

  08-05-2020 14:35 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  New machine learning methods bring insights into how lithium ion batteries degrade, and show it's more complicated than many thought.
  
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• Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry -- new hardware could curb its appetite

  07-05-2020 15:47 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A team of engineers has created hardware that can learn skills using a type of AI that currently runs on software platforms. Sharing intelligence features between hardware and software would offset the energy needed for using AI in more advanced applications such as self-driving cars or discovering drugs.
  
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• Shedding new light on nanolasers using 2D semiconductors

  06-05-2020 22:22 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists have discovered a process of physics that enables low-power nanolasers to be produced in 2D semiconductor materials. Understanding the physics behind lasers at nanoscale and how they interact with semiconductors can have major implications for high-speed communication channels for supercomputers and data centers.
  
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• HARTING: A powerful partner for Industry 4.0 and IIoT

  06-05-2020 10:30 via realwire.com
  
  HARTING T1 Industrial available ex stock / All infrastructure components for IIoT networks / SPE Industrial Partner Network expands to 20 members Espelkamp, 6 May, 2020 --- Extraordinary times call for new methods of communication: In 2020, the HARTING Technology Group will – for the first time – be presenting innovative and state-of-the-art products and solutions for the Industry 4.0 and IIoT megatrends in purely digital form. Under the HARTING Experts Camp lable, the connectivity..
  
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• Superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven material discovery

  30-04-2020 21:02 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials that has promising applications for solid-state batteries, fuel cells, 3D printing technologies, and beyond.
  
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• 'Breathable' electronics pave the way for more functional wearable tech

  30-04-2020 17:30 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Engineering researchers have created ultrathin, stretchable electronic material that is gas permeable, allowing the material to 'breathe.' The material was designed specifically for use in biomedical or wearable technologies, since the gas permeability allows sweat and volatile organic compounds to evaporate away from the skin, making it more comfortable for users -- especially for long-term wear.
  
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• Intricate magnetic configuration of 3D nanoscale gyroid networks revealed

  30-04-2020 16:12 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A multinational team of researchers has revealed the magnetic states of nanoscale gyroids, 3D chiral network-like nanostructures. The findings add a new candidate system for research into unconventional information processing and emergent phenomena relevant to spintronics.
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER unveils the most versatile high voltage distribution solution for electric vehicles

  30-04-2020 09:00 via realwire.com
  
  HUBER+SUHNER, a leading global supplier of electrical and optical connectivity solutions, has today launched the latest off-the-shelf High Voltage Distribution solution for every type of electric vehicle (EV) – the modular High Voltage Distribution Unit (mHVDU). Managing up to 800 Volts DC, the mHVDU is the leading solution in the EV industry and the most effective in cases of extreme usage in harsh environments. The configurable nature of this modular solution offers a great benefit...Sou
  
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• Engineers make a promising material stable enough for use in solar cells

  29-04-2020 21:56 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A research team has found a way to make halide perovskites stable enough by inhibiting the ion movement that makes them rapidly degrade, unlocking their use for solar panels as well as electronic devices.
  
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• A leap in using silicon for battery anodes

  28-04-2020 15:35 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists have come up with a novel way to use silicon as an energy storage ingredient. They've developed a nanostructure incorporating carbon nanotubes to strengthen the material and modify the way silicon interacts with lithium, a key component in batteries used in electric cars and other devices.
  
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• A great new way to paint 3D-printed objects

  28-04-2020 14:46 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Engineers have created a highly effective way to paint complex 3D-printed objects, such as lightweight frames for aircraft and biomedical stents, that could save manufacturers time and money and provide new opportunities to create 'smart skins' for printed parts.
  
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• Two steps closer to flexible, powerful, fast bioelectronic devices

  24-04-2020 21:07 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have designed biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic components out of a single material. These have promise for bioelectronic devices that are fast, sensitive, biocompatible, soft, and flexible, with long-term stability in physiological environments such as the human body. In particular, they could facilitate diagnosis and monitoring of ne
  
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• Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signs

  23-04-2020 19:04 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate.
  
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• Tiny sensors fit 30,000 to a penny, transmit data from living tissue

  22-04-2020 19:25 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers who build nanoscale electronics have developed microsensors so tiny, they can fit 30,000 on one side of a penny. They are equipped with an integrated circuit, solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that enable them to harness light for power and communication. And because they are mass fabricated, with up to 1 million sitting on an 8-inch wafer, each device costs a fraction of that same penny.
  
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• A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat

  22-04-2020 15:12 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or catch fire. Now, researchers have developed a hydrogel that can both cool down electronics, such as cell phone batteries, and convert their waste heat into electricity.
  
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• Water replaces toxins: Green production of plastics

  21-04-2020 17:25 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A new way to synthesize polymers, called hydrothermal synthesis, can be used to produce important high-performance materials in a way which is much better for the environment. Dangerous toxins which usually have to be used to produce theses polymers can be substituted by water.
  
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• Modelling wrinkling and buckling in materials that form the basis of flexible electronics

  21-04-2020 17:25 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A new article aims to understand how materials used in flexible electronics behave under stress and strain, particularly, how they wrinkle and buckle.
  
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• Engineers develop way to improve efficiency and heat tolerance of devices

  21-04-2020 17:25 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  When it comes to increasing electric storage efficiency and electric breakdown strength -- the ability of an electrical system to operate at higher voltage and temperatures with great efficiency -- increasing one traditionally has led to a decrease in the other. Researchers recently developed a scalable method that relies on engineered materials to increase both properties.
  
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• Enterprises Failing to Comply with Sustainability Policies, as New Blancco Study Reveals Three Quarters of End-of-Life Equipment Not Being Recycled

  21-04-2020 11:00 via realwire.com
  
  Research into corporate sustainability practices reveals the role global organizations play in damaging natural environments AUSTIN and LONDON -- April 21, 2020—New research launched today by Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile device diagnostics, explores the issues associated with the corporate sustainability practices that some of the world’s largest enterprises are following today. Blancco’s study, Poor sustainability pract
  
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• Photonic microwave generation using on-chip optical frequency combs

  20-04-2020 18:54 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Using integrated photonic chips, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators. These microwave signals, as well as their optical carriers, could be used in radars, satellite communications and future 5G wireless networks.
  
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• A cheap organic steam generator to purify water

  20-04-2020 16:50 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A high-efficiency steam generator for the purification and desalination of water can be built using cheap and natural materials such as cellulose.
  
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• New discovery settles long-standing debate about photovoltaic materials

  17-04-2020 18:55 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists have theorized that organometallic halide perovskites -- a class of light harvesting 'wonder' materials for applications in solar cells and quantum electronics -- are so promising due to an unseen yet highly controversial mechanism called the Rashba effect. Scientists have now experimentally proven the existence of the effect in bulk perovskites.
  
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• Untwisting plastics for charging internet-of-things devices

  16-04-2020 15:19 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists are unraveling the properties of electricity-conducting plastics so they can be used in future energy-harvesting devices.
  
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• Ordering of atoms in liquid gallium under pressure

  09-04-2020 20:15 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Liquid metals and alloys have exceptional properties that make them suitable for electrical energy storage and generation applications.
  
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• 3D nanoparticles and magnetic spin

  09-04-2020 16:54 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have captured 3D images of nanoparticles in liquid with atomic precision, and developed an ultrathin electrical switch that could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance.
  
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• Broad spectrum: Novel hybrid material proves an efficient photodetector

  09-04-2020 15:39 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Digital cameras as well as many other electronic devices need light-sensitive sensors. In order to cater for increasing demand for optoelectronic components, industry is searching for new semiconductor materials. They are not only supposed to cover a broad range of wavelengths but should also be inexpensive. A hybrid material fulfills both these requirements.
  
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• Revolutionary light-emitting silicon

  08-04-2020 17:32 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Emitting light from silicon has been the 'Holy Grail' in the microelectronics industry for decades. Solving this puzzle would revolutionize computing, as chips will become faster than ever. Researchers have now succeeded: they have developed an alloy with silicon that can emit light. The team will now start creating a silicon laser to be integrated into current chips.
  
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• A twist connecting magnetism and electronic-band topology

  03-04-2020 19:12 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Materials that combine topological electronic properties and quantum magnetism are of high current interest, for the quantum many-body physics that can unfold in them and for possible applications in electronic components. For one such material, physicists have now established the microscopic mechanism linking magnetism and electronic-band topology.
  
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• A combined optical transmitter and receiver

  03-04-2020 17:51 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
  
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• A new way to fine-tune exotic materials: Thin, stretch and clamp

  02-04-2020 20:45 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and changed its magnetic properties. The technique can be used to study and design a broad range of materials for use in things like sensors and detectors.
  
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• Stable perovskite LEDs one step closer

  01-04-2020 19:08 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Researchers have developed a perovskite light-emitting diode (LED) with both high efficiency and long operational stability.
  
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• Scientists see energy gap modulations in a cuprate superconductor

  01-04-2020 19:08 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  Scientists studying high-Tc superconductors have definitive evidence for the existence of a state of matter known as a pair density wave -- first predicted by theorists some 50 years ago. Their results show that this phase coexists with superconductivity in a well-known bismuth-based copper-oxide superconductor.
  
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• AI finds 2D materials in the blink of an eye

  01-04-2020 15:26 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
  A research team has introduced a machine-learning algorithm that can scan through microscope images to find 2D materials like graphene. This work can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
  
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