Articles
Women in electronics - making a difference
Using an outdated mobile phone and a simple sensor to measure respiration rates, an Australian student is showing how electronic engineers can contribute to society. [ + ]
Hybrid electronics: low-resistance carbon-IC interconnect fabrication
Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon, researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circuits without the high interface resistance produced by traditional fabrication techniques. [ + ]
Faster, smaller electronics
The dilute magnetic semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide could open up an entirely new class of faster, smaller devices based on ‘spintronics’. Materials of this type might be used to read and write digital information, not by using the electron’s charge, as is the case with today’s electronic devices, but by using its ‘spin’. [ + ]
Grumpy chats about hybrid cars
I don’t know about you but I am mightily underwhelmed by hybrid cars. True, they are full of sophisticated electronics and true they do go some way towards satisfying the consciences of greenies. But, on the down side, they are expensive, they are complex, they have limited range in their electrical mode and there are few places to charge the batteries other than in your own garage. To me they are bisexual products of a motor industry that has reluctantly pandered to ill-conceived demands from governments intent on being seen to be saving the planet. [ + ]
ISO26262 compliance for automotive ICs and semiconductor devices
The adoption of the ISO standard initially gave rise to major concerns about an increase in development costs and device die sizes within the semiconductor industry. [ + ]
Optical vortices on a chip
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan universities in China has demonstrated integrated arrays of emitters of so-called “optical vortex beams” onto a silicon chip. [ + ]
Developing the next generation of microsensors
To move to the next level of personal navigators electronics engineers need the next generation of microsensors. [ + ]
Graphene - invisible barrier wards off metal corrosion
A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion. [ + ]
High-power converters for renewable energy systems
A strong market resurgence of the wind power and solar markets has placed mounting pressure on the converter suppliers to offer standardised converter solutions. [ + ]
Ultrafast optical amplifier
Silicon and erbium-doped material offers high optical bandwidth and amplification properties. [ + ]
Choosing the right UPS technology and system
Choosing the right UPS system not only determines the security of services but also plays a key role in the operating costs. [ + ]
RFID technology for jewellery inventory management
RFID simplifies stock counts because of its ability to provide tag processing of up to 50 pieces per second. [ + ]
New femtosecond technique enables insulator classification
Till now it has been impossible to distinctly classify all insulators due to a lack of suitable experimental approaches. [ + ]
Reducing design-in effort for ARM processor technology
ARM processors are at the heart of nearly all current smartphones and tablet computers in the consumer market. Software service to reduce design-in effort eases the entry of OEMs into this market. [ + ]
Aerographite - a conductor as light as air
The combination of electrical and mechanical properties of Aerographite offers huge potential for future development of electronics. [ + ]