To move to the next level of personal navigators electronics engineers need the next generation of microsensors. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion. [ + ]

A strong market resurgence of the wind power and solar markets has placed mounting pressure on the converter suppliers to offer standardised converter solutions. [ + ]

Silicon and erbium-doped material offers high optical bandwidth and amplification properties. [ + ]

Choosing the right UPS system not only determines the security of services but also plays a key role in the operating costs. [ + ]

RFID simplifies stock counts because of its ability to provide tag processing of up to 50 pieces per second. [ + ]

Till now it has been impossible to distinctly classify all insulators due to a lack of suitable experimental approaches. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

The combination of electrical and mechanical properties of Aerographite offers huge potential for future development of electronics. [ + ]

Controlling the spin of elecrons provides data storage and higher efficiency light generation. [ + ]

When embedded designers take advantage of the often-overlooked processing power of a wireless module, they can typically eliminate the system microcontroller and thus create an advanced, cellular-enabled system that is smaller, more efficient and much cheaper to produce. This article gives guidelines for choosing a module that will act as both microcontroller and modem.

Researchers have developed a nanolithography technique that is claimed to be less expensive than other approaches and can be used to create technologies with biomedical applications. [ + ]

M2M technology has reached into many aspects of our lives and is continuing to expand into areas that a few years ago would have been thought regions of science fiction. [ + ]

Copper-nickel nanowires, in the form of a film, conduct electricity even under conditions that break down the transfer of electrons in plain silver and copper nanowires, a new study has shown. [ + ]