A temperature sensor that runs on 113pW of power has been developed by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego as part of their work boosting energy efficiencies of individual parts of an integrated circuit to reduce the power requirement of the system as a whole.The sensor could help extend the battery life of wearable o...

It is now possible to create devices that switch rapidly at a threshold voltage, say researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University. This could enable the control of current state in printed electronic circuits and displays, as well as the colour state of individual pixels within the displays.According to th...

According to Rigol Technologies, its Phoenix oscilloscope chipset will allow the needs of higher performance applications to be addressed by future instruments.The Phoenix chipset has three elements, each named after stars in the Phoenix constellation. The analogue front end chip, called Beta Phoenicis, supports bandwidths of up to 4GHz and int...

OXIS Energy has set up an International Lithium Sulphur battery system test centre in Abingdon. Said to be the first of its kind in Europe, the facility will enable OXIS to further its development of LiS chemistry and technology.The test centre, which will enable OXIS to develop new processes for the use of rechargeable LiS battery systems, wil...

Graphene Flagship researchers based at Chalmers University of Technology have produced working versions of a graphene-based spin field-effect transistor operating at room temperature and say this is a step towards integrating spintronic logic and memory devices.“Graphene is an excellent medium for spin transport at room temperature, due t...

A way to reach a rectification ratio thought a theoretical impossibility has been demonstrated by an international research team from the University of Central Florida (UCF), the University of Limerick and the National University of Singapore. This discovery could enable the practical use of molecular diodes."It surpassed that limit impose...

Working in collaboration with Lionix, researchers from the University of Twente have developed a diode laser on a chip with a bandwidth of 290Hz. According to the team, this is the most accurate such device yet created.Professor Klaus Boller noted: “Our signal is more than ten times more coherent – or clean – than any other la...

Researchers at Linkoping University say they have discovered how to control and transfer spinning electrons and believe this could pave the way for novel hybrid devices that could outperform existing electronics components.The work is based on topological insulators, which are insulators on the inside, but conduct on their surface. One property...

Toshiba has developed a prototype sample of a 96 layer BiCS FLASH 3D memory using 3bit/cell technology. Samples of the new device, which has a capacity of 256Gbit, are scheduled for release in the second half of 2017, with mass production targeted for 2018.The 96 layer stacking process, combined with advanced circuit and manufacturing process t...

Volvo Cars and Autoliv will work with NVIDIA to develop advanced systems and software for AI self-driving cars. The partners will also work with Zenuity – a newly formed automotive software development joint venture between Volvo and Autoliv – to develop next-generation self-driving car technologies.“Artificial intelligence is...