MRAM (magnetic random access memory) is faster, more efficient and robust than other kinds of data storage. However, switching bits still requires too much electrical power to make large-scale application practicable. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) say they have discovered a way of solving this problem by using a 'bend...

Europe’s technology leaders in the development of flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting and signage applications have formed a consortium, called ‘PI-SCALE’, that aims to create a Europe-wide pilot line to enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED ligh...

A team of researchers, led by a group from the University of California, Riverside, claims to have demonstrated the first transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices.The UC Riverside-led research is said to be significant becaus...

Keysight Technologies has announced turn-on chipsets using indium phosphide (InP) semiconductor technology that it says will bring real-time and equivalent-time oscilloscopes offering bandwidths greater than 100GHz.The company says the oscilloscopes will also feature 10-bit A/D converters and more than one maximum bandwidth input channel per os...

SmartKem has reported its solution-processed organic semiconductor, tru-FLEX, has set a world record in digital circuit performance. The tru-FLEX-based five-stage organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) ring oscillator using solution coating is claimed to operate with an oscillation frequency above 500kHz and stage delay of less than 200ns.This is...

Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre and Aalto University, together with a number of partners, are embarking on a project to develop optical switching and transmission technologies. The work is intended to improve the scalability and energy efficiency of data centres and 5G networks.The project, part of Finnish funding agency Tekes&rsquo...

Nanoelectronics research centre imec and Holst Centre have developed an ECG readout chip which uses time domain circuit techniques. According to the partners, the device offers consistent beat detection abilities and may pave the way for low cost, low power multisensor SoCs for wearable medical devices.The chip, which has an area of 0.015mm2, i...

Researchers from EPFL have developed conductive tracks that they say are almost as flexible as rubber and can be stretched up to four times their original length and in all directions. The team claims the electronics can also be stretched a million times without cracking or interrupting their conductivity.Both solid and flexible, the resear...

Researchers from Aston University are claiming that a laser-based technique first proposed in the 1970s could be used to counter the internet 'capacity crunch' - a phrase which has attracted much attention and is building presence as we want better, faster Internet and pervasive, instant connectivity to the global network.To keep optica...

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal believe it may be possible to construct a supercomputer based on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – a substance that provides power to human cells. The team also believes that such a device could be smaller and more power efficient than current supercomputers.The research team has created a chip me...