Industry News
Tiny motor driver now in the world's top 10
The Top 10 Power Product Award, from 21ic.com and Electronic Products China, recognises what is believed to be the smallest 45 V motor driver in the world that can achieve a resolution of up to 256 microsteps. [ + ]
Plug and Play on the lookout for Vic start-up companies
The Plug and Play Tech Center seeks to identify a Victorian start-up company in the advanced materials field that will become part of its accelerator program in Silicon Valley. [ + ]
Wireless self-charging system uses NIR band
Researchers have developed a permanent, wireless self-charging platform for low-power wearable electronics by converting near-infrared band irradiation to electrical energy. [ + ]
Smartphones powered by STMicroelectronics touchscreen controller
STMicroelectronics' FingerTip touchscreen controller (TSC) is powering all three of the latest Xiaomi Mi8 smartphone models — Standard, SE and Explorer. [ + ]
Driverless car trial greenlit for Adelaide CBD
The South Australian Government has granted autonomous vehicle technology company Cohda Wireless permission to trial driverless cars on city streets for the first time. [ + ]
Battery research hub shortlisted for CRC Program
The Future Battery Industries CRC would harness new energy materials, including lithium, vanadium, nickel, cobalt and graphite, for the future of energy storage. [ + ]
element14 launches IoT webinars, Halloween competition
element14.com, the online community for engineers, is launching a new webinar series and competition. [ + ]
Part-organic semiconductor could enable bendable phones
A new semiconductor can convert electricity into light very efficiently — and is thin and flexible enough to help make mobile phones bendable. [ + ]
GaN-on-Si collaboration for power conversion applications
STMicroelectronics and Leti have announced their cooperation to industrialise gallium nitride-on-silicon technologies for power switching devices. [ + ]
Vicor to participate in leading data centre conference
The Open Data Center Committee (ODCC) Summit will be held in Beijing from 16–17 October. [ + ]
OLED display market to hit $25.5bn this year
The OLED industry will be worth $25.5 billion in 2018, rising to $30.72 billion in 2019 and eventually growing to $58 billion in 2025, according to IDTechEx Research. [ + ]
QUT investigating automated vehicle safety
Queensland will next year welcome its first purpose-built automated vehicle, following an international agreement at the Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit. [ + ]
Electronic skin mimics human-like sense of touch
Inspired by human skin, researchers have constructed a tactile sensor that detects pressure and pulses, replicating the experience of pressurised human touch. [ + ]
Tiny camera lens may help link quantum computers
The lens is made of a silicon film with millions of nanostructures forming a metasurface that can control light with functionalities outperforming traditional systems. [ + ]
Competition: Can you design a drone with a sixth sense?
The Sixth Sense Design Challenge asks engineers to create a small remotely operated or autonomous vehicle with remote vehicle sensing and data collection capabilities. [ + ]
