A device based on a bilayer of graphene and boron nitride which is said to show unprecedented spin transport efficiency at room temperature has been created by Graphene Flagship scientists based at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.According to the researchers, the spin signal is so large that it can be used in real life applications...

A semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) has been created by Rice laboratory scientists from a monolayer of molybdenum diselenide from which the top layer of the lattice was stripped and replaced with sulphur.The new material they call Janus sulphur molybdenum selenium (SMoSe) has a crystalline construction the researchers claim c...

The SYZYGY from Opal Kelly is an open standard for connecting high performance peripherals to FPGA hardware.According to the company, SYZYGY is intended to satisfy the need for a compact, low cost, low pin-count, high performance connectivity solution between FPGAs and single-purpose hardware peripherals. Potential applications include devices...

A method to tune the colour of the light emitted by an LED by altering the size of its semiconductor crystals has been discovered researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Austria.Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produce light of a defined colour within the spectral range from the i...

A novel design that boosts the power output of chip-mounted terahertz lasers by 80% has been unveiled by researchers at MIT and the University of Toronto.Applications – including medical and industrial imaging, and chemical detection – depend on small, power-efficient sources of terahertz rays, and the standard method for producing...

New Vertical NAND (V-NAND) memory solutions and technology have been announced by Samsung which it claims will address the requirements of next generation data processing and storage systems.According to the company, these solutions will be at the forefront of enabling today’s most data-intensive tasks such as high-performance computing,...

National Instruments (NI) has unveiled the PXIe-8301 remote control module, the industry’s first solution for laptop control of PXI systems using Thunderbolt 3.The PXIe-8301 offers PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity through two Thunderbolt 3 ports to maximise performance and can deliver up to 2.3 GB/s of sustained data throughput. Engineers c...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the development of two new flagship enterprise solid state drive (SSD) solutions, the TMC PM5 12Gbit/s SAS series and the CM5 NVM Express (NVMe) series.Both product lines are built with TMC’s latest 64 layer, 3-bit-per-cell enterprise-class TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH, making it possible for...

A way to write an electrical circuit into a crystal which could enable transparent, 3D electronics that can be erased and reconfigured has been found by Washington State University physicists.By using a laser to etch a line in the crystal and attaching electrical contacts at each end of the line, the researchers managed to create a current....

Silicon Labs has expanded its EFM32 Gecko MCU portfolio with the addition of devices offering higher performance, more features and lower power consumption.The EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family is said to offer the most advanced feature set available in the low-power MCU market, targeting smart metering, asset tracking, industrial/building autom...