Intelligent Energy has signed a Joint Development Agreement with an unnamed emerging smartphone OEM to develop embedded fuel cell technology for the manufacturer’s devices. Once embedded, a fuel cell has the potential to keep a smartphone powered for more than a week on one charge.Intelligent Energy’s Consumer Electronics division a...

Research led by Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, states that the road to more versatile wearable technology is dotted with iron. Specifically, quantum dots of iron arranged on boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs).Prof Yap says the iron-studded BNNTs are pushing the boundaries of electronics hardware. "...

The introduction by Teledyne LeCroy of the HDA125 high speed digital analyser is said to expand the capabilities of its oscilloscopes. By adding the HDA125 digital acquisition system, which captures 18 channels of data at 12.5Gsample/s, users can create what the company claims is ‘the most flexible, highest performance mixed signal solution a...

UK semiconductor company, SmartKem has claimed to have set a world record in digital circuit performance with its tru-FLEX solution processed organic semiconductor.SmartKem has designed a tru-FLEX based all-organic five-stage OTFT ring oscillator using solution coating that operates with an oscillation frequency above 500kHz and stage delay of...

A group of materials scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by Xudong Wang, a UW-Madison professor of materials science and engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Fei Wang, has developed a technique for creating two-dimensional sheets of compounds that do not naturally form such thin materials. It is said to be the first time su...

A team of engineers at NASA has been chosen to build the space agency's first ever integrated photonics communications modem. This could transform everything from telecommunications, medical imaging, and advanced manufacturing to national defence.The modem will be tested aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2020 as part of NA...

Microsoft researchers are currently testing a prototype of an underwater data centre that they say could reduce cloud latency by locating them nearer to highly populated areas and also eliminate the high-energy consumption usually attributed to data centres. Dubbed Project Natick, the data centres are said to be quickly deployable and do not requir...

Xilinx has announced the first shipment of the Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA, claimed to be the industry’s first high-end FinFET FPGA built using TSMC’s 16FF+ process.Victor Peng, executive vice president and general manager of the Programmable Products Group at Xilinx, said: “The successful delivery of our Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA m...

AVnu Alliance has announced that Rockwell Automation and Kollmorgen have joined its industrial segment. The two companies are said to bring valuable expertise to AVnu Alliance activities incorporating standards such as Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) into a common networking foundation.Industrial automation and information company, Rockwell has...

Researchers from MIT have reported the first chip-fabrication technique that they claim could enable significantly different materials to be deposited in the same layer. They also report that, using the technique, they have built chips with working versions of all the circuit components necessary to produce a general-purpose computer.The layers...