A tracking system called HYPERION based on eye-safe lasers could enable aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and even orbiting satellites to transmit vital data to ground stations more securely, quickly and efficiently.The development of HYPERION has been made through Innovate UK’s HITEA programme: a team including the University of...

A 12Mpixel image sensor for smartphones from Samsung is claimed to improve the quality of mobile phone pictures. With 1.4µm pixels, the device takes advantage of Dual Pixel technology, previously applied only in digital SLR cameras. According to Samsung, the technology enables rapid autofocus and ‘premium’ image quality on mobile...

Barclays is opening up branch and office space around the UK, inviting businesses and individuals to build their digital and business skills through its Eagle Labs, which the bank hopes will encourage innovation in the future of fast growth sectors, in addition to UK manufacturing and production.The bank says the Eagle Labs will provide access...

This year’s Embedded World event in Nuremberg saw an increased focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and security as development in this area is becoming more mature and the threats posed by hackers and malware is understood better.Among the announcements at Embedded World was the launch of the Visible Things platform for the development...

According to Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions (CWDS), its proposed multiprocessor High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) radar processing architecture has met the targets laid down in the US Air Force’s Next Generation Radar Processor Study. The goal of the study was to assess how cost-effectively COTS hardware and software could perform...

Materials developed by a team of physicists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The University of Manchester could enable a new generation of optoelectronic devices.According to the researchers, the materials make it easier to manipulate excitons – electrons and electron holes bound to each other by an electrostatic fo...

In a development which has potentially wide ranging implications, a UK research team says it has demonstrated the first practical laser that has been grown directly on a silicon substrate.As data rates continue to climb, passing data between chips using conventional electrical interconnects is proving more and more difficult. The solution is to...

MRAM (magnetic random access memory) is faster, more efficient and robust than other kinds of data storage. However, switching bits still requires too much electrical power to make large-scale application practicable. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) say they have discovered a way of solving this problem by using a 'bend...

Europe’s technology leaders in the development of flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting and signage applications have formed a consortium, called ‘PI-SCALE’, that aims to create a Europe-wide pilot line to enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED ligh...

A team of researchers, led by a group from the University of California, Riverside, claims to have demonstrated the first transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices.The UC Riverside-led research is said to be significant becaus...