Acquisition reinforces Triwater Holdings’ Water Treatment Solutions division as a leader in the North American industrial marketplace

  Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, the Walther-Meißner-Institute (WMI) and Kyoto University have demonstrated the transport of spin information at room temperature. In their experiment, they demonstrated the production, transport and detection of electronic spins in the boundary layer between the materials lanthanum-aluminate (LaAlO2) and strontium-titanate (SrTiO3). What makes this material system unique …

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.My Hedgie chum has proposed a wheeze, Ed confides to his diary, it has become apparent, though not yet public, that some of the government contracts managed by private companies have been delinquent. A couple of these are public companies and the Hedgie, an old university pal, asked me the other day over lunch what …

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Smiths Connectors has created a high pressure high temperature connector series for the oil and gas industry. Called Vortex, the single-way connectors are designed for logging-while-drilling (LWD), measurement-while-drilling (LWD) and wire-line applications. With a mating boot and Hypertac  hyperboloid contacts, they work at 200°C, 35,000PSI, 500gravity shock and 10gravity vibration while mated. “The series provides exceptional …

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Semcon, the Swedish product development company, has developed a software upgrade for cars which pre-activates windscreen when a heavy splash of water is about to hit the windscreen. 61% of US drivers feel uncomfortable when overtaking heavy vehicles in wet conditions, says Semcon. Half of these say it is because an encounter with or takeover …

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China silicon foundry Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) is considering whether to adopt FD-SOI reports Digitimes. HLMC, owned by the Shanghai local government, has a CMOS development programme with Imec and makes ICs for MediaTek. It views FD-SOI as a low-cost alternative to finfet. Consumer applications, where China fabless design companies typically focus, are often more …

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President of SPTS, Kevin Crofton, has been appointed chairman of the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult. “I look forward to helping to guide the Catapult’s vital contribution to the compound semiconductor industry in the UK,” says Crofton, “we expect the Catapult to bridge some of the primary research, development and test challenges that exist in the …

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Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss says he does not expect the company’s $850 million bid for Cree’s SiC and GaN power semiconductor unit Wolfspeed to go ahead. There is “a very significant risk that we will not be able to complete the takeover as planned or possibly even at all”, said Ploss at Infineon’s results meeting …

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The connected car makes it possible to remotely obtain the location coordinates of a vehicle as well as its route, to open doors, start the engine and control additional in-car devices, says Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky has come up with four recommendation for connected car users to protect themselves from cyber-interference: · Don’t root your Android …

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Cobham Wireless will demonstrate what it claims is industry’s first software-defined 5G user equipment (UE) simulator, based on Verizon’s open 5G standard and down-linking at up to 10Gbit/s, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and it has an IoT simulator – see below. “Virtualising the solution provides operators with the flexibility to test technology and …

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