MEMS microphone specialist Akustica has added two robust analogue devices to its portfolio. The AKU151 is a top port device boasting a high SNR and high acoustic performance density (SNR/mm3). Meanwhile, the AKU350 has a bottom port configuration and an SNR of 67dB. According to the company, both devices take advantage of its MEMS, ASIC and package...

Communications test specialist Rohde & Schwarz has expanded the analysis bandwidth of the FSW signal and spectrum analyzer to 2GHz with the FSW-B2000 hardware option. This enables users to demodulate extremely wideband signals and to analyse them in detail.To analyse large bandwidth signals, the FSW downconverts the input to an intermediate...

US based test, inspection and certification specialist National Technical Systems has acquired National Quality Assurance, a leading ISO registrar.US based test, inspection and certification specialist National Technical Systems has acquired National Quality Assurance, a leading ISO registrar.Dunstable based NQA maintains more than 32,000 act...

A survey conducted by the CBI has concluded that science has become less of a curriculum priority in primary schools. Its survey, conducted in association with Brunel University, found that more than a third of schools now provide less than the recommended two hours of science education a week.The survey, called Tomorrow's World, is said to...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a CMOS circuit that operates at nearly 10THz – the highest frequency yet achieved for the technology. The team says the development could make night vision and heat based imaging affordable.The UT Dallas device was created using Schottky diodes in CMOS. "There are no exist...

National Instruments has announced the PXIe-8880 controller. Based on the Intel Xeon processor and with a system bandwidth of 24Gbyte/s, the device is said to deliver breakthrough performance for computationally intensive and highly parallel applications, such as wireless test, semiconductor test and 5G prototypingNational Instruments has annou...

Computer scientists from Saarbrücken University, in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in the US, have developed touch sensitive flexible silicone stickers featuring electrically conducting sensors. The stickers, which can be worn on the skin, can act as controllers for mobile devices."The stickers allow us...

IDT has unveiled Wireless PowerShare technology at Mobile World Congress. The innovation is said to allow one mobile device to be charged wirelessly from another.The multimode, multifunction chip is a receiver and transmitter that is said to support all major wireless power standards for magnetic resonance and magnetic induction charging.Th...

Raytheon UK is collaborating in a project intended to provide a more efficient device to protect aircraft electronics and wiring against lightning strikes.The project – led by Controls and Data Services – also includes Newcastle University as the design authority and TT Electronics Semelab. As part of its work, the team is exploring...

Physicists at the University of Basel, in conjunction with the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), have shown for the first time that electrons in graphene can be moved along a predefined path without loss.Scientists at the university have developed methods that allow them to stretch, examine and manipulate layers of pure graphene. In doing so,...