New research from the University of Colorado, Boulder could revolutionize the industry.

EPA finalizes $15 million additional cleanup plan at former Vineland, N.J. plant.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has made a transistor with a 1nm gate using the two-dimensional material molybdenum disulphide, a carbon nanotube, and the insulator zirconium dioxide. “We made the smallest transistor reported to date,” said principal investigator Ali Javey. “The gate length is considered a defining dimension of the transistor. We demonstrated a 1nm-gate transistor, …

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Omron Electronic Components has a face recognition module which it claims has a maximum recognition speed of up to ten times that of the existing unit. A characteristic of the module, says the supplier, is that face recognition functionality can be added to a system without the need to understand the algorithms or the optical …

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A German research alliance has taken the next step in car front lighting with a 1,024 pixel LED for matrix headlights. Matrix headlights are effectively projectors, capable of sending individual beams of light in front of the vehicle an, in conjunction with cameras and algorithms, allowing the parts of the beam that would dazzle on-coming …

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A Leicester-based company is developing the technology to allow large structures such as radio antennas and solar cells to be manufactured in space. Magna Parva has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to build engineering qualification model that will manufacture structures of indefinite size in space The phase 2 contract from …

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US-based developer of gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), Custom MMIC is represented in the UK by Aspen Electronics, and its microwave amplifiers, switches and mixers are on show this week at European Microwave Week (EuMW) in London. These include a SP3T switch, the CMD234C4, which provides an isolation of 40dB at 10GHz …

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In 1921, the year after he received his Nobel Prize, Einstein lectured on The Theory of Reltivity at the Sorbonne. “If my relativity theory is verified, Germany will proclaim me a German and France will call me a citizen of the world,” said Einstein. “But if my theory is proved false,” he added, “France will …

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Gadget Masters and their projects aren’t about making money, I would say. More about the fun and learning of experimentation and protyping. However, when it comes to compiling parts lists, you certainly don’t waste any money and spend more than you need to.

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Enormous financial and technology hurdles continue to plague the development of 450mm wafers, says IC Insights. Ambitious goals to put 450mm wafers to use have been scaled back. IC manufacturers are instead maximizing their manufacturing efficiency using 300mm and 200mm wafers. IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity 2016-2020 report shows that worldwide capacity by wafer size …

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