Archive : January 2015 год

Although graphene based devices have shown outstanding electrical and optical performance, they are sensitive to environmental factors, such as humidity or gas composition. This, says a research team, has made reproducible operation in a normal atmosphere impossible.Generally, adsorbates from the ambient (such as moisture or oxygen) and resid...

In a move intended to boost adoption of the Cortex-R5 processor in safety critical applications, ARM has delivered a comprehensive safety document set that will allow semiconductor companies to demonstrate their chips are compliant with new functional safety standards.Richard York, vice president of embedded marketing, noted: "As long as 2...

The top 10 consumer electronics companies bought $125.6billion worth of semiconductors in 2014, equivalent to 37% of all semiconductor purchases and 9.4% more than in 2013, according to a report from market analyst Gartner.Together, Samsung Electronics and Apple bought $57.9bn of semiconductors in 2014, $3.9bn more than in 2013 and equivalent t...

Scientists from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have unveiled a technique that will allow more powerful, more energy efficient and low-cost pulsed lasers to be developed.The approach is said to have a fundamentally different principle to that of existing pulsed lasers, relying upon the coherent comb...

Lasers, displays and other light emitting depend upon the electrically controlled modulation of photons. But, says a research team, electrical control of the light emission pathways opens up the possibility of novel types of nano photonics devices, based on active plasmonics.Scientists from ICFO, MIT, CNRS, CNISM and Graphenea have demonstrated...

TDK-Lambda UK has been awarded a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office for a novel power supply heat sink arrangement.According to the company, the various components in a power supply that dissipate heat require different cooling arrangements and a combination of both surface mount and leadedcomponents is generally required.&qu...

Keithley Instruments has unveiled Model DMM7510, a 7½ digit graphical sampling multimeter, said by the company to be the first of a new class of digital multimeters.It integrates a high accuracy digital multimeter, a digitiser for waveform capture and a capacitive touchscreen user interface. The device is designed to give users confide...

A new signal amplification process discovered by a team from the University of California, San Diego is poised to underpin new generations of electrical and photonic devices, according to the researchers."For many years, the semiconductor industry has relied on photodetectors for optoelectrical conversion, followed by low noise electronic...

Telesoft Technologies has selected Achronix' Speedster22i HD1000 FPGAs for use in its MPAC6200 dual 100GbE PCIe card for cyber security, monitoring and analytics."Use of Speedster22i FPGAs has accelerated our product development cycle time," said Rob Downham, Telesoft's chairman. "In previous FPGA projects, the integratio...

York EMC Services has opened a new compliance test laboratory, relocating its Scottish operation from Dalgety Bay to Grangemouth. The purpose built laboratory offers a range of EMC, safety, radio, telecoms and EMF compliance services to companies in Scotland and the North of England. Chief Executive Nick Wainwright said: "The complian...