Renesas has announced six new products in the 8th-generation G8H Series of its insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) lineup. The IGBTs are rated at 650V/40, 50, and 75A, and at 1250V/25, 40, and 75A, they are available in TO-247 packages and are claimed to minimise conversion losses in power conditioners for solar power generation systems and re...

Two flexible PCB antennas from Antenova are intended for use in what the company says is the fast moving 3G mobile device market. Both antennas support the GSM850, GSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900 and WCDMA2100 bands and will provide full coverage of the 3G bands in all world regions.The antennas, designed to be mounted inside a small mobile or wearabl...

Researchers at the University of Manchester have found that they can produce perfect stacking of graphene and boron nitride layers. Furthermore, if the layers in the heterostructure were disturbed, the crystals would self-rotate back to the ideal configuration. These heterostructures can be used to create new types of transistors, solar cells or LE...

A tracking system called HYPERION based on eye-safe lasers could enable aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and even orbiting satellites to transmit vital data to ground stations more securely, quickly and efficiently.The development of HYPERION has been made through Innovate UK’s HITEA programme: a team including the University of...

A 12Mpixel image sensor for smartphones from Samsung is claimed to improve the quality of mobile phone pictures. With 1.4µm pixels, the device takes advantage of Dual Pixel technology, previously applied only in digital SLR cameras. According to Samsung, the technology enables rapid autofocus and ‘premium’ image quality on mobile...

Barclays is opening up branch and office space around the UK, inviting businesses and individuals to build their digital and business skills through its Eagle Labs, which the bank hopes will encourage innovation in the future of fast growth sectors, in addition to UK manufacturing and production.The bank says the Eagle Labs will provide access...

This year’s Embedded World event in Nuremberg saw an increased focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and security as development in this area is becoming more mature and the threats posed by hackers and malware is understood better.Among the announcements at Embedded World was the launch of the Visible Things platform for the development...

According to Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions (CWDS), its proposed multiprocessor High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) radar processing architecture has met the targets laid down in the US Air Force’s Next Generation Radar Processor Study. The goal of the study was to assess how cost-effectively COTS hardware and software could perform...

Materials developed by a team of physicists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The University of Manchester could enable a new generation of optoelectronic devices.According to the researchers, the materials make it easier to manipulate excitons – electrons and electron holes bound to each other by an electrostatic fo...

In a development which has potentially wide ranging implications, a UK research team says it has demonstrated the first practical laser that has been grown directly on a silicon substrate.As data rates continue to climb, passing data between chips using conventional electrical interconnects is proving more and more difficult. The solution is to...