Industry News
Efficient manufacturing method for stretchy supercapacitors
A supercapacitor can be efficiently manufactured into a high-performance and low-cost power storage device that can be easily integrated into IoT accessories. [ + ]
Alamouti Code inventor wins 2022 Marconi Prize
The 2022 Marconi Prize was awarded to serial innovator Siavash Alamouti, in recognition of his contribution to global wireless device accessibility. [ + ]
European Chips Act to ensure EU semiconductor supply
The Act calls to quadruple Europe's production capacity by 2030 and lays out measures to avoid future supply chain disruptions. [ + ]
NVIDIA terminates planned acquisition of Arm
NVIDIA originally announced its intention to acquire Arm back in September 2020, in a transaction valued at $40 billion. [ + ]
Application note: balancing of supercapacitors
Würth Elektronik has provided a new help guide for developers, designed to address the relative unfamiliarity of using supercapacitors. [ + ]
Increasing perovskite solar cell efficiency
Australian researchers say the solar cells they have produced are cheap and easy to manufacture, in addition to achieving high efficiency. [ + ]
Atomically thin nanoribbons can be produced at scale
Researchers have used nanowires made of a transition-metal chalcogenide to make atomically thin nanoribbons. [ + ]
Micro-supercapacitors made from fallen leaves
South Korean researchers have developed a graphene–inorganic hybrid micro-supercapacitor made of leaves, using femtosecond direct laser writing lithography. [ + ]
StoreDot tech extends the life of EV batteries
The technology is designed to ensure that there is minimal drop-off in performance even as the battery ages beyond its useful EV life. [ + ]
New efficiency record for perovskite–organic solar cells
Researchers say they have set a new record in the power conversion efficiency of solar cells made using perovskite and organic materials. [ + ]
Switchback battlebot helps build passion for STEM
STMicroelectronics has contributed multiple STM32 MCUs to the Switchback battlebot — a 113 kg robot that uses a dual-motor drum spinner mounted on an ambidextrous arm. [ + ]
Researchers develop a fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display
Researchers combined two different modes of printing to print the six device layers that resulted in a fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display. [ + ]
Samsung demonstrates MRAM-based in-memory computing
It has so far been difficult to use MRAM for in-memory computing, despite MRAM's merits such as operation speed, endurance and large-scale production. [ + ]
Passivation enables high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
An international team of researchers has synthesised materials that were used for constructing a record-breaking perovskite solar module. [ + ]
Atom by atom: building a silicon quantum computer chip
Australian and German researchers have developed a technique for embedding single atoms in a silicon wafer one by one. [ + ]
