Industry News
Dietary fibre purifies carbon nanotubes
The method could be upscaled for manufacturing purified batches of single-wall carbon nanotubes for use in high-performance electronic devices. [ + ]
Instabilities found on common semiconductor material
It turns out that the surface of a commonly used compound semiconductor material — gallium arsenide (GaAs) — is not as stable as previously thought. [ + ]
Silicon III-V chips could be commercially manufactured
Researchers have announced a commercially viable way to manufacture integrated Silicon III-V chips with high-performance III-V devices inserted into their design. [ + ]
Silver nanowires offer transparency
Researchers have developed a submicrometre-thin mesh of silver nanowires that are transparent to light, highly electrically conductive, flexible, stretchable and simple to make. [ + ]
Meet the RoboRoos robotics squad at the World Electronics Forum
The acclaimed Australian RoboRoos student robotics team will take the stage at the World Electronics Forum in Adelaide next month. [ + ]
STMicroelectronics and Audi partner on automotive lighting
STMicroelectronics has announced its collaborative efforts with Audi to conceive, design, industrialise, manufacture and deliver the next generation of innovative automotive exterior OLED lighting. [ + ]
Artificial skin improves sensory ability of robots
Researchers have combined artificial skin with control algorithms, creating what is claimed to be the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin. [ + ]
Energy storage improved in dielectric capacitors
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, seeking to solve a sustainable energy storage problem, have found inspiration in the most unlikely of places: the humble croissant. [ + ]
Sound waves control quantum information in a single electron
Researchers sent high-frequency sound waves across a modified semiconductor device to direct the behaviour of a single electron, with efficiencies in excess of 99%. [ + ]
Fancy a phone case made of artificial skin?
Researchers have developed an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting interactive devices such as phones, wearables and computers. [ + ]
'Supercondensers' store electric charge in textiles
The devices make use of all the potential of active carbon, graphene and polyaniline, a polymer with high capabilities that is already broadly used in textile materials. [ + ]
STMicroelectronics enhances NFC experiences in iOS 13
STMicroelectronics is enhancing software support for smartphone app developers to unleash the full potential of the Core NFC Framework of the newly released iOS 13 operating system. [ + ]
Quantum processor made of laser light
Based on a design 10 years in the making, the processor has built-in scalability that allows the number of quantum components — made out of light — to scale to extreme numbers. [ + ]
congatec appoints Thomas Schultze as Chief Operating Officer
With a business engineering degree and a General Management Master from the SGMI Management Institut St. Gallen, Schultze offers more than 20 years of experience in operations management. [ + ]
Sandwich-structured electrode enhances lithium–sulfur batteries
The electrode was found to improve the practical energy density of a lithium–sulfur battery to three to five times higher than that of lithium-ion batteries. [ + ]