Keysight Technologies has announced turn-on chipsets using indium phosphide (InP) semiconductor technology that it says will bring real-time and equivalent-time oscilloscopes offering bandwidths greater than 100GHz.The company says the oscilloscopes will also feature 10-bit A/D converters and more than one maximum bandwidth input channel per os...

SmartKem has reported its solution-processed organic semiconductor, tru-FLEX, has set a world record in digital circuit performance. The tru-FLEX-based five-stage organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) ring oscillator using solution coating is claimed to operate with an oscillation frequency above 500kHz and stage delay of less than 200ns.This is...

Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre and Aalto University, together with a number of partners, are embarking on a project to develop optical switching and transmission technologies. The work is intended to improve the scalability and energy efficiency of data centres and 5G networks.The project, part of Finnish funding agency Tekes&rsquo...

Nanoelectronics research centre imec and Holst Centre have developed an ECG readout chip which uses time domain circuit techniques. According to the partners, the device offers consistent beat detection abilities and may pave the way for low cost, low power multisensor SoCs for wearable medical devices.The chip, which has an area of 0.015mm2, i...

Researchers from EPFL have developed conductive tracks that they say are almost as flexible as rubber and can be stretched up to four times their original length and in all directions. The team claims the electronics can also be stretched a million times without cracking or interrupting their conductivity.Both solid and flexible, the resear...

Researchers from Aston University are claiming that a laser-based technique first proposed in the 1970s could be used to counter the internet 'capacity crunch' - a phrase which has attracted much attention and is building presence as we want better, faster Internet and pervasive, instant connectivity to the global network.To keep optica...

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal believe it may be possible to construct a supercomputer based on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – a substance that provides power to human cells. The team also believes that such a device could be smaller and more power efficient than current supercomputers.The research team has created a chip me...

RS Components and element14 have unveiled the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. The latest version of the credit card sized computer features an SoC based on a 64bit ARM Cortex A53 quad core processor, as well as integrated Bluetooth and wireless LAN connectivity IoT development projects.Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, said: “Four years ag...

Said to be the most compact lab oscilloscope available for multidomain applications, the RTO2000 from Rohde & Schwarz allows complex measurements to be made quickly.According to the company, the device allows developers to analyse how functional units in advanced embedded designs – such as power supplies, the processor system and the...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated what they claim are the thinnest, lightest solar cells ever produced. This proof-of-concept shows an approach to making solar cells that could help power the next generation of portable electronic devices.According to the researchers, the key to their approach is to make the solar cell, the substrate that su...