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• 3D-printed plastics with high performance electrical circuits

  05-11-2019 13:58 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small satellites, biomedical implants and smart structures. They used pulses of high-energy light to fuse tiny silver wires, resulting in circuits that conduct 10 times more electricity than the state of the art, according to a new study.
  
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• 2D antimony holds promise for post-silicon electronics

  05-11-2019 01:07 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers are searching for alternative materials to silicon with semiconducting properties that could form the basis for an alternative chip.
  
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• Scientists spy unstable semiconductors

  04-11-2019 17:28 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Scientists have, for the first time, spotted previously unseen 'instabilities' on the surface of a common compound semiconductor material.
  
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• Batteries: Post-lithium technology

  04-11-2019 17:28 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Next-generation batteries will probably see the replacement of lithium ions by more abundant and environmentally benign alkali metal or multivalent ions. A major challenge, however, is the development of stable electrodes that combine high energy densities with fast charge and discharge rates. Scientists now report a high-performance cathode made of an organic polymer to be used in low-cost, environmentally benign, and durable sodium-ion batteries.
  
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• UltraSoC furthers academic support with Europractice partnership

  04-11-2019 15:00 via Electronics- general feed from realwire
  UltraSoC IP enables academic institutions to develop full RISC-V ASICsCAMBRIDGE, UK – 4 November 2019 UltraSoC has announced a partnership with Europractice, to bring UltraSoC debug and trace IP for open source RISC-V development to a wider community and to make the company’s IP more readily and freely available for academic ASIC development. This move furthers UltraSoC’s growing support for education, particularly via the rapidly growing RISC-V open source architecture, which
  
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• Dietary fiber effectively purifies carbon nanotubes

  03-11-2019 18:54 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  A dietary fiber can help separate out semiconducting carbon nanotubes used for making transistors for flexible electronics.
  
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• 'Transformative electronics systems' to broaden wearable applications

  01-11-2019 19:39 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  A research team says their new platform called 'Transformative Electronics Systems' will open a new class of electronics, allowing reconfigurable electronic interfaces to be optimized for a variety of applications.
  
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• Quantum chip 1,000 times smaller than current setups

  31-10-2019 15:05 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same superior security quantum technology is known for.
  
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• 3D printing used to make glass optical fiber preform

  30-10-2019 17:35 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have developed a way to use 3D printing to create a preform that can be drawn into silica glass optical fibers, which form the backbone of the global telecommunications network. This new fabrication method could not only simplify production of these fibers but also enable designs and applications that weren't possible before.
  
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• A stretchable stopwatch lights up human skin

  30-10-2019 17:03 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Imagine a runner who doesn't need to carry a stopwatch or cell phone to check her time: She could just gaze at the glowing stopwatch display on the back of her hand. Such human-machine interfaces are no longer science fiction, but they still have a way to go before becoming mainstream. Now, researchers have developed a stretchable light-emitting device that operates at low voltages and is safe for human skin.
  
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• Study shows ability to detect light from UV to the IR optical regimes using spin currents

  29-10-2019 19:07 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) can be used to detect light across a broad optical range -- ultraviolet through visible to near-infrared. This has future implications on novel spin current-based technologies.
  
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• An electronic signal expands a material by a factor of 100

  29-10-2019 18:15 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have discovered a material that can both increase and reduce its volume when exposed to a weak electrical pulse. In a sponge, or filter, the researchers can control the size of particles that pass through.
  
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• Intuitive virtual reality: Bimodal 'electronic skin' developed

  29-10-2019 15:48 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Through the crafty use of magnetic fields, scientists have developed the first electronic sensor that can simultaneously process both touchless and tactile stimuli. Prior attempts have so far failed to combine these functions on a single device due to overlapping signals of the various stimuli. As the sensor is readily applied to the human skin, it could provide a seamless interactive platform for virtual and augmented reality scenarios.
  
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• Tungsten suboxide improves the efficiency of platinum in hydrogen production

  28-10-2019 15:42 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers presented a new strategy for enhancing catalytic activity using tungsten suboxide as a single-atom catalyst (SAC). This strategy, which significantly improves hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in metal platinum (pt) by 16.3 times, sheds light on the development of new electrochemical catalyst technologies.
  
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• Giving valleytronics a boost

  28-10-2019 15:41 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Physicists have revealed a new quantum process in valleytronics that can speed up the development of this fairly new technology.
  
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• IPC News: U.S. Electronics Manufacturers Grappling with Higher Costs from U.S. and Chinese Tariffs; U.S. Jobs and Investments at Risk

  24-10-2019 00:43 via Electronics.ca Publications
  BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, October 23, 2019 — Almost 90 percent of U.S. electronics manufacturers are troubled by the higher tariffs imposed by the United States and China on each other’s imports, and some are investing less in the United States … Read More
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• Magnetics with a twist: Scientists find new way to image spins

  22-10-2019 23:44 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have put a new spin on measuring and controlling spins in nickel oxide, with an eye toward improving electronic devices' speed and memory capacity.
  
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• Paving the way for sensor interfaces that are 30 times smaller

  22-10-2019 17:21 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have invented a novel class of Digital-to-Analog (DAC) and Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) that can be entirely designed with a fully-automated digital design methodology.
  
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• Novel nanoprobes show promise for optical monitoring of neural activity

  19-10-2019 00:10 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have developed ultrasensitive nanoscale optical probes to monitor the bioelectric activity of neurons and other excitable cells. This novel readout technology could enable scientists to study how neural circuits function at an unprecedented scale by monitoring large numbers of individual neurons simultaneously. It could also lead to high-bandwidth brain-machine interfaces with dramatically enhanced precision and functionality.
  
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• Flexible, wearable supercapacitors based on porous nanocarbon nanocomposites

  18-10-2019 17:35 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have manufactured fibrous electrodes for wearable devices that are flexible and excel by their high energy density. A microfluidic technology was key for the preparation of the electrode material was a microfluidic technology, as shown in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
  
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• Alignment of single-wall carbon nanotubes along common axis

  16-10-2019 15:49 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  The researchers used machine-vision automation and parallelization to simultaneously produce globally aligned, single-wall carbon nanotubes using pressure-driven filtration.
  
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• Researchers build a soft robot with neurologic capabilities

  15-10-2019 17:06 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  In work that combines a deep understanding of the biology of soft-bodied animals such as earthworms with advances in materials and electronic technologies, researchers have developed a robotic device containing a stretchable transistor that allows neurological function.
  
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• Controlling the charge state of organic molecule quantum dots in a 2D nanoarray

  15-10-2019 16:33 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have fabricated a self-assembled, carbon-based nanofilm where the charge state (ie, electronically neutral or positive) can be controlled at the level of individual molecules. Molecular self-assembly on a metal results in a high-density, 2D, organic quantum-dot array with electric-field-controllable charge state, with the organic molecules used as 'nano-sized building blocks' in fabrication of functional nanomaterials. Achieved densities are an order of magnitude larger than conventi
  
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• How to control friction in topological insulators

  14-10-2019 17:17 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Topological insulators are innovative materials that conduct electricity on the surface, but act as insulators on the inside. Physicists have begun investigating how they react to friction. Their experiment shows that the heat generated through friction is significantly lower than in conventional materials. This is due to a new quantum mechanism, the researchers report.
  
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• Creating 2D heterostructures for future electronics

  11-10-2019 22:53 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  New research integrates nanomaterials into heterostructures, an important step toward creating nanoelectronics.
  
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• 'Electroadhesive' stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures

  11-10-2019 20:46 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  New technique could enable assembly of circuit boards and displays with more minute components.
  
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• New soft actuators could make soft robots less bulky

  11-10-2019 20:20 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Engineers have developed a way to build soft robots that are compact, portable and multifunctional. The advance was made possible by creating soft, tubular actuators whose movements are electrically controlled, making them easy to integrate with small electronic components. As a proof of concept, engineers used the new actuators to build an untethered, battery-powered, walking soft robot and a soft gripper.
  
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• Intelligent, shape-morphing, self-healing material for soft robotics

  10-10-2019 18:56 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Advances in the fields of soft robotics, wearable technologies, and human/machine interfaces require a new class of stretchable materials that can change shape adaptively while relying only on portable electronics for power. Researchers have developed such a material that exhibits a unique combination of high electrical and thermal conductivity with actuation capabilities that are unlike any other soft composite.
  
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• UltraSoC announces next-generation hardware-based cybersecurity products

  08-10-2019 16:14 via Electronics- general feed from realwire
  Embedded monitors detect, block and record attacks, prevent propagationCAMBRIDGE, UK and SAN JOSE, CA – 8 October 2019 - UltraSoC today announced next-generation hardware-based cybersecurity products that can be used to detect, block and record cyber-attacks in a broad range of applications – from vehicles and factory robots to consumer devices. These new offerings embed advanced real-time cybersecurity features in the systems-on-chip (SoCs) that power and control every modern produc
  
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• Novel, high-performance diodes and transistors

  08-10-2019 14:31 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Today's computer processors are increasingly pushed to their limits due to their physical properties. Novel materials could be the solution. Physicists have investigated if and how these materials might be developed. They have created, tested and filed a patent for a concept that utilizes the latest findings from the field of spintronics.
  
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• Picoscience and a plethora of new materials

  07-10-2019 16:04 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades may come from new materials so small they make nanomaterials look like lumpy behemoths. These materials will be designed and refined at the picometer scale, which is a thousand times smaller than a nanometer. A new study moves picoscience in a new direction: taking elements from the periodic table and tinkering with them at the subatomic level to tease out new materials.
  
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• Physicists unlock the mystery of thermionic emission in graphene

  07-10-2019 16:04 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers discover a new theory that paves the way for the design of better graphene electronics and energy converters.
  
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• Graphene turns 15 on track to deliver on its promises

  04-10-2019 16:56 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Scientists analyze the current graphene landscape and market forecast for graphene over the following decade.
  
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• Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors

  03-10-2019 14:32 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Electrical engineers have devised a fully print-in-place technique for printable electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces ranging from paper to human skin. This can be accomplished without additional steps to bake, wash or powder-coat materials. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos and bandages with patient-specific biosensors.
  
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• Keeping cool with quantum wells

  03-10-2019 13:48 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  A research team has invented a semiconductor quantum well system that can efficiently cool electronic devices using established fabrication methods. This work can allow for smaller and faster smart devices that consume less power.
  
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• Researchers repurpose failed cancer drug into printable semiconductor

  02-10-2019 22:52 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Many potential pharmaceuticals end up failing during clinical trials, but thanks to new research, biological molecules once considered for cancer treatment are now being repurposed as organic semiconductors for use in chemical sensors and transistors.
  
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• Tunable optical chip paves way for new quantum devices

  02-10-2019 18:17 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal. The approach could one day be used to create a large range of reconfigurable devices such as phase-shifters and tunable optical couplers needed for networking applications and quantum information processing.
  
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• Ultra-fast optical way to extract critical information from quantum materials

  02-10-2019 16:28 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Topological insulators are quantum materials, which, due to their exotic electronic structure, on surfaces and edges conduct electric current like metal, while acting as an insulator in bulk. Scientists have now demonstrated how to tell apart topological materials from their regular -- trivial -- counterparts within a millionth of a billionth of a second by probing it with ultra-fast laser light.
  
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• Shape affects performance of micropillars in heat transfer

  01-10-2019 19:27 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  A researcher has shown for the first time that the shape of a nanostructure has an effect on its ability to retain water. This has important ramifications for heat transfer, which is important when it comes to performance in small electronics.
  
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• Just add water: Simple step boosts polymer's ability to filter CO2 from mixed gases

  01-10-2019 19:26 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Researchers have found it can significantly boost an existing polymer's ability to selectively remove carbon dioxide out of gas mixtures by first submerging the material in liquid water.
  
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• Chemicals for pharmaceuticals could be made cheaper and greener by new catalysts

  01-10-2019 16:22 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  High value chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals could be made much cheaper and quicker thanks to a series of new catalysts.
  
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• 5G: What Are the Real Status and the Real Economics?

  01-10-2019 14:26 via Electronics.ca Publications
  ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS announces the availability of a new report entitled “5G: What Are the Real Status and the Real Economics?“. 5G refers to a set of international standards for a new (5th) generation of mobile communications service. It is intended … Read More
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• IPC Pulse Survey Shows Positive but Moderating Industry Outlook

  01-10-2019 14:08 via Electronics.ca Publications
  BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, September 30, 2019 — Third-quarter 2019 results from IPC’s Pulse of the Electronics Industry global data service show that the global electronics industry continues to thrive in a positive business environment and still predicts continued growth over … Read More
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• Curved nanochannels allow independent tuning of charge and spin currents

  30-09-2019 17:47 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  To increase the efficiency of microchips, 3D structures are now being investigated. However, spintronic components, which rely on electron spin rather than charge, are always flat. To investigate how to connect these to 3D electronics, physicists have created curved spin transport channels. They discovered that this new geometry makes it possible to independently tune charge and spin currents.
  
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• Borophene on silver grows freely into an atomic 'skin'

  30-09-2019 16:45 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Borophene has a nearly perfect partner in a form of silver that could help the trendy two-dimensional material grow to unheard-of lengths.
  
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• Helping tobacco plants save water

  30-09-2019 16:12 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Biologists have used bioelectronics to influence transpiration in a tobacco plant, without harming the plant in any way.
  
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• UltraSoC selected by Japan's NSITEXE for automotive development

  30-09-2019 12:00 via Electronics- general feed from realwire
  Embedded analytics to boost design of future autonomous vehiclesCAMBRIDGE, UK; Tokyo, Japan – 30 September 2019 - UltraSoC today announced that its embedded analytics technologies have been selected by Japanese company NSITEXE, Inc. (hereinafter, NSITEXE, a subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, the global automotive components manufacturer) to monitor performance and improve quality and reliability, particularly in future autonomous vehicle designs.Hideki Sugimoto, CTO of NSITEXE commented: &ld
  
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• Portable electronics: A stretchable and flexible biofuel cell that runs on sweat

  25-09-2019 18:34 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  A unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present in sweat, was recently developed and patented. This cell is already capable of continuously lighting an LED, opening new avenues for the development of wearable electronics powered by autonomous and environmentally friendly biodevices.
  
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• New way to produce curvy electronics

  25-09-2019 18:34 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Contact lenses that can monitor your health as well as correct your eyesight aren't science fiction, but an efficient manufacturing method has remained elusive. Until now. Researchers have reported developing a new manufacturing method to produce the lenses, solar cells and other three-dimensional curvy electronics.
  
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• Bottom-up synthesis of crystalline 2D polymers

  25-09-2019 17:30 via Electronics News -- ScienceDaily
  Scientists have succeeded in synthesizing sheet-like 2D polymers by a bottom-up process for the first time. A novel synthetic reaction route was developed for this purpose. The 2D polymers consist of only a few single atomic layers and, due to their very special properties, are a promising material for use in future electronic components.
  
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