A research team at Aalto University in Finland, led by Professor Hele Savin, says it has developed a light detector that can capture more than 96% of the photons covering visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.“Present day light detectors suffer from severe reflection losses as [their] antireflection coatings are limited to specifi...

Xilinx has unveiled a FPGA-powered reconfigurable acceleration stack that includes libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support.According to the company it will provide the fastest path to realize 40x better compute efficiency with Xilinx FPGAs when compared to x86 server CPUs and up to six times the compute effici...

Researchers from The University of Manchester claim to have taken a significant step towards creating quantum computers. Its work is said to show that large molecules made of nickel and chromium could store and process information in the same way as bytes are used in digital computers.In a paper published in the science journal Chem, the team c...

Looking to provide better service to customers in a range of sectors, FTDI Chip has spun out its MCU, graphic controller and interface interests into Bridgetek. The move means that FTDI will now focus on its USB interconnection business.“By spinning out our MCU and HMI divisions into a new brand, we will be much better positioned,...

Using scrap metal and a common household chemical, a team from Vanderbilt University has developed a high performance battery.“The tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide storage for renewable energy instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,” said assistant professor Cary P...

A research team from UCLA says it has made a major step forward in developing and using topological insulators, which conduct electricity on their surface, but not in their interior.Magnetised topological insulators could improve the energy efficiency and operating speed of computers ‘dramatically’, says the team, which offers two w...

A European health consortium is developing a set of low radiation, low cost, flat panel X-ray detectors that use novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients and medical staff.While X-ray is a useful diagnostic tool, it can be harmful to the body. Although the level of radiation can be reduced, this has come at the expense of...

Specialist in mid-air touchless haptic technology, Ultrahaptics, has introduced a development platform that allows companies to evaluate and appreciate the benefits of gesture controls enhanced by tactile feedback sensations. The UHDK5 TOUCH Development Kit provides a complete hardware and software package with an architecture that can be embedded...

A group of researchers from University at Buffalo, California Institute of Technology and City University of New York has demonstrated a way to control light with light using one third – in some cases, even less – of the energy typically required. The advancement, coupled with other developments, could lead to more powerful, energy-effi...

Aquantia, a specialist in high-speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for data centres, mobile, and enterprise infrastructure, has unveiled a new class of high-performance connectivity architecture that has the potential, according to the company, to revolutionise next-generation hyperscale data centres.The technology, QuantumStream, has been de...