Laser cutting and 3D printing have been used to make a personal respirator that could be used worldwide to protect doctors and nurses tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of April, frontline healthcare staff in the UK were testing the prototype res...

By Rob Coppinger | 01-05-2020

There are several materials out there which are used to fabricate the junction of a solar cell. While some of the thin and flexible solar cells, you will see are organic in nature, most solar cells to date are inorganic in nature. Of these inorganic solar cell...

By Liam Critchley | 30-04-2020

Over sixty years ago a metallurgical abnormality was discovered that revealed metal surfaces could grow whiskers.  Thinner than a human hair and virtually undetectable to the human eye, these whiskers were to wreak havoc during the early days of microprocessor...

By Paul Whytock | 29-04-2020

The coming together of biology and electronics is moving forward apace with ‘bioelectronics’, specifically bio-molecular, changing the face of a wide spectrum of industry disciplines. Electronic biological materials (e-biologics), produced with microbes or des...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 28-04-2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the global economy with oil prices now in the red, unemployment at an all time high, and the FTSE 100 index price falling by unseen amounts. But how has this pandemic affected the electronics industry and what ca...

By Robin Mitchell | 27-04-2020

Clean transportation, renewable energy, sustainable water and circular economy adapted products could benefit from the net proceeds of a $400 million green bond issued by Analog Device Inc (ADI). The company’s green bond issuance consisted of a $400 million ag...

Environment | By Rob Coppinger | 22-04-2020

Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators (OCXOs) are rapidly gaining ground across a range of high performance applications. An OCXO is a temperature-controlled device that maintains a quartz crystals’ constant operating temperature. This prevents changes in the sp...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 22-04-2020

There is a saying that “nature is the world’s greatest scientist”. This statement is true, and millions of years of evolution have created highly complex systems that can perform a number of functions that humans only wished that they could replicate. After al...

By Liam Critchley | 21-04-2020

In writing this article, I have the most wonderful “problem” that any science or engineering writer can possibly have. And that is, developments in this area are happening so fast that actual progress may well have surpassed the content of this article by the...

Articles | By Gary Elinoff | 20-04-2020

In writing this article, I have the most wonderful “problem” that any science or engineering writer can possibly have. And that is, developments in this area are happening so fast that actual progress may well have surpassed the content of this article by the...

Insights | By Gary Elinoff | 20-04-2020

In writing this article, I have the most wonderful “problem” that any science or engineering writer can possibly have. And that is, developments in this area are happening so fast that actual progress may well have surpassed the content of this article by the...

Educational | By Gary Elinoff | 20-04-2020

This week, YMTC have announced their latest FLASH memory chip, the X2-6070, which stores 1.33Tb of data with access speeds up to 1.6 Gb/s. What is QLC memory and what advantages does it have over other traditional FLASH memory architectures? QLC Memory Flash m...

By Robin Mitchell | 17-04-2020