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Researchers put a spin on electronics

05 April, 2004

University of Utah physicists have taken an important step towards a new generation of faster, cheaper computers and electronics by building the first 'organic spin valves'

Transistor lights the way

21 March, 2004

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed the worldâ€™s first light emitting transistor (LET).

DNA creates self-assembling nano transistor

17 March, 2004

Proving it is possible to use biology to create electronics, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed the power of DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor, the building block of electronics.

Multilevel molecular memory

17 March, 2004

In conventional memory cells a bit of information is either a zero or one.(In hypothetical quantum computers, a bit could be both a zero and a one at the same time, but that kind of nimble balancing is years away from exploitation and so bits continue to be bi-level.) In the meantime one way of cramming more data into a fixed lateral region on a data storage device, other than shrinking the cell's size, is to store more than one bit in each memory cell. This is one goal of molecular electronics (or moletronics) where, for instance one would like to store information in the form of parcels of charge placed at several active sites around a single molecule.

Motor controllers

15 March, 2004 | Supplied by: http://www.microchip.com/

Microchip Technology has launched a family of 8 bit flash microcontrollers with motor control peripherals that deliver better efficiency, quieter operation, greater range and extend the life of motors in automotive, industrial, appliance and consumer applications.

Quadrature demodulator

15 March, 2004 | Supplied by: http://www.soanar.com/

A monolithic IF quadrature demodulator from Linear Technology operates with a single supply voltage down to 1.8.

Low profile capacitors

15 March, 2004 | Supplied by: http://www.adilam.com.au/

Vishay has added to its 592D family of low-profile tantalum capacitors with 2200 µF devices in 2 mm case height and 3300 µF in 2.5 mm case height.

MOSFET driver

15 March, 2004 | Supplied by: http://www.powertech.co.nz/

Maxim has introduced the MAX8552 single-phase MOSFET driver IC optimised to complement the MAX8524/MAX8525 CPU core-supply controllers.

Memory device may archive data

12 February, 2004

Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard have invented a combination of materials that could lead to cheap and super-compact electronic memory devices for archiving digital images or other data.

Short-wavelength LEDs at high-power output

10 February, 2004

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developing ultraviolet light-emitting diodes recently demonstrated two deep UV semiconductor optical devices that set records for wavelength/power output.

Embedded processor

09 February, 2004 | Supplied by: Kontron Australia Pty Ltd

Kontron has introduced the ETX-PM CPU module claimed to be the most compact board to date to host a Pentium M processor and the first Computer-On-Module to be based on it.

Developments in RFID and smart cards

29 January, 2004

Philips and IBM are to jointly develop customer systems for radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card applications. They plan to address the growing need for advanced high-security smart cards and RFID technology in day-to-day business processes, operations and consumer lifestyles.