NHP Electrical Engineering Products has gained sole distributorship of the Delta electric vehicle charger range in Australia. [ + ]

Fujitsu Laboratories claims to have created the world's smallest sensor — a device that supports low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology and will apparently never need replacement batteries. [ + ]

German physicists have drastically increased the yield of gallium oxide — a class of semiconducting oxide — with a catalytic effect observed for the first time during crystal growth. [ + ]

Wireless electronic and electrical products consuming microwatts, milliwatts and more are beginning to operate without batteries or even capacitors to store energy, according to a new report from IDTechEx. [ + ]

Seeking to satisfy the growing demand for light, powerful and long-lasting batteries, Swiss researchers have developed an initial prototype of a solid sodium battery with the potential to store extra energy. [ + ]

RS Components, the trading brand of Electrocomponents, has appointed Chris Poullaos as its country manager for Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

SEMICON Southeast Asia (SEMICON SEA), a conference connecting people, products, technologies and solutions across the electronics manufacturing supply chain, will be held in Kuala Lumpur next year. [ + ]

Korean researchers have developed ultraflexible organic flash memory that is bendable down to a radius of 300 μm. [ + ]

Recognising the growing engineering talent for the Internet of Things (IoT), semiconductor supplier Renesas held its first Gadget Renesas (GR) Embedded Design Contest in Southeast Asia this year. [ + ]

Computing software provider MathWorks has introduced a free 5G library aimed at supporting wireless design exploration in advance of the release of the initial 3GPP 5G standard specification in March 2018. [ + ]

Deakin University scientists have been working to process energy-storing sheets of 'MXene' — a nanoscopic material made of carbon and titanium — into knittable fibres. The goal of their research? To create clothing fibres that can store energy. [ + ]

US researchers have developed an ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals. Their breakthrough could lead to increased performance and more energy-efficient computer memory and processing technologies. [ + ]

Emona Instruments has been appointed as the Australian and New Zealand distributor for Magna-Power Electronics. [ + ]

ercogener has developed its first Industry 4.0 modem using u-blox LTE Cat M1 cellular technology. The modem is designed to meet the requirements of the recently announced Orange LTE Cat M1 network, which will be launched across Europe in 2018. [ + ]

The Institute of Fluid Science at Tohoku University is upgrading and improving the performance of its core equipment in order to further enhance its fluid science research in fields such as health, welfare and medicine, the environment and energy, aerospace and manufacturing. [ + ]