Industry News
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. [ + ]
Meta-optics research centre coming to ANU
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems is set to research the interaction of light with nanomaterials — technology that is often thinner than a human hair. [ + ]
Digi-Key partners with Analog Devices on MeasureWare platform
Analog Devices' multisensory MeasureWare platform enables Digi-Key customers to have their own customised software and marketplace. [ + ]
X-ray technique for detecting defective computer chips
The technique allows companies to non-destructively scan computer chips to ensure they haven't been altered and have been manufactured to design specifications without error. [ + ]
element14 extends linecard, celebrates 15m Raspberry Pis
element14 celebrates the sale of 15 million Raspberry Pi SBCs and announces the distribution of Amphenol PIHER's range of contactless sensors and potentiometers. [ + ]
Knock knock: object interaction with a smartphone
Researchers have developed a new technology that identifies objects and executes actions following a simple knock against a smartphone. The software is powered by machine learning that analyses sounds, vibrations and other reactions. [ + ]
Power conversion efficiency boosted in perovskite solar cells
Researchers have developed transparent conductive films that are set to increase the power conversion efficiency of perovskite-based multijunction solar cells beyond 30%. [ + ]
2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for Li-ion batteries
M Stanley Whittingham, John B Goodenough and Akira Yoshino will receive the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of lithium-ion batteries. [ + ]
Protein batteries for safe, sustainable power storage
By using synthetic polypeptides — which make up proteins — and other polymers, US researchers have taken the first steps towards constructing electrodes for sustainable organic batteries. [ + ]
Electrolube reports success in India, new global standard for OHS
Electrochemicals manufacturer Electrolube has been awarded the new global standard for occupational health and safety, the ISO 45001. [ + ]
High efficiency achieved for flexible thin-film solar cells
Researchers have achieved 11.4% photoelectric conversion efficiency in flexible CZTSSe thin-film solar cells — said to be the highest efficiency ever reached in such cells. [ + ]
Flexible biofuel cell runs on sweat
A new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present in sweat, has been developed. [ + ]
Speeding up computation with nanophotonics
Researchers have developed a new type of processor known as PAXEL — a device that can potentially bypass Moore's law and increase the speed and efficiency of computing. [ + ]
Fully electronic 2D spin transistors created
Dutch physicists have constructed a two-dimensional spin transistor, in which spin currents were generated by an electric current through graphene. [ + ]
