TDK-Lambda UK has been awarded a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office for a novel power supply heat sink arrangement.According to the company, the various components in a power supply that dissipate heat require different cooling arrangements and a combination of both surface mount and leadedcomponents is generally required.&qu...

Keithley Instruments has unveiled Model DMM7510, a 7½ digit graphical sampling multimeter, said by the company to be the first of a new class of digital multimeters.It integrates a high accuracy digital multimeter, a digitiser for waveform capture and a capacitive touchscreen user interface. The device is designed to give users confide...

A new signal amplification process discovered by a team from the University of California, San Diego is poised to underpin new generations of electrical and photonic devices, according to the researchers."For many years, the semiconductor industry has relied on photodetectors for optoelectrical conversion, followed by low noise electronic...

Telesoft Technologies has selected Achronix' Speedster22i HD1000 FPGAs for use in its MPAC6200 dual 100GbE PCIe card for cyber security, monitoring and analytics."Use of Speedster22i FPGAs has accelerated our product development cycle time," said Rob Downham, Telesoft's chairman. "In previous FPGA projects, the integratio...

York EMC Services has opened a new compliance test laboratory, relocating its Scottish operation from Dalgety Bay to Grangemouth. The purpose built laboratory offers a range of EMC, safety, radio, telecoms and EMF compliance services to companies in Scotland and the North of England. Chief Executive Nick Wainwright said: "The complian...

The emission of light from and capture of light by metamaterials can be enhanced with the use of light emitting nanocrystals, according to research conducted by the City College of New York, along with scientists from the University of Alberta and Purdue University. The work is believed to have application in ultrafast LEDs, nanoscale lasers and si...

Light communication company pureLiFi – previously known as pureVLC – has raised £1.5million in its latest round of investment as it ships Li-Flame, what is said to be the world's first full wireless LiFi networking system. The latest investors in the University of Edinburgh spin off were led by London and Scottish Inv...

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a way to manipulate the optical properties of polymers by drawing patterns with a solvent 'ink'. The approach is said to allow more precise control over how these materials interact with light and could have application in all kinds of devices that emit, detect and control light. One exam...

Intersil has launched the ISL8203M, a dual 3A/single 6A step down DC/DC power module said to simplify the design of power supplies for FPGAs, ASICs, microprocessors and DSPs. The module is described as a complete encapsulated power system featuring a PWM controller, synchronous switching MOSFETs, inductors and passive components. Accepting...

An international research team, including scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, has created the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of Group IV elements. The germanium-tin (GeSn) laser can be applied directly onto a silicon chip and thus creates a new basis for optical data tr...