Testing is an important part of the World Health Organization’s strategy for defeating the global pandemic of the new coronavirus and microfluidics, also known as a lab-on-a-chip, could be the technology to deliver the cheap, easy test that everyone worldwide...

By Rob Coppinger | 08-04-2020

The field of organic electronics has seen a lot of interest in recent years. On the whole, the performance and efficiency of organic electronic devices are not typically as high as inorganic-based electronics. However, their unique properties – especially thei...

By Liam Critchley | 07-04-2020

Magnetic field sensors, which are encountered everywhere today across a broad spectrum of industries and end use sectors, are growing in importance. All magnetic sensors work with the Earth’s magnetic field and come in many different types in order to cater fo...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 06-04-2020

The field of IoT has seen a dramatic rise of internet technologies being integrated into everyday life. However, the lack of security has resulted in social pressure and government action forcing designers to implement stronger security features. How can edge...

By Robin Mitchell | 03-04-2020

Biosensors are a technology which has attracted a lot of discussion and interest in recent weeks due to the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This is because biosensors are the keyway of testing whether a patient has a virus. The same approach is used in...

By Liam Critchley | 02-04-2020

When it comes to truly cutting our planet’s carbon footprint it's corporations, their banks and senior politicians that really hold the key to unlocking environmental strategies that will have a significant global effect. Forget the criticisms often levelled a...

By Paul Whytock | 01-04-2020

There are various types of fuses on the market today, although they can broadly be divided into two categories: slow-blow and fast-blow fuses. One of their key functions is to act as a circuit protection component to protect the circuit from over-current and o...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 30-03-2020

Temperature sensors are a useful piece of electronics for many reasons and are used throughout many manufacturing industries to monitor the temperature of many processes and environments. Temperature sensors have become an even more vital piece of kit this yea...

By Liam Critchley | 27-03-2020

Gallium nitride (GaN) enables smaller, lighter, more efficient desktop AC-DC power supply series for portable products. Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor. When utilised within power supplies, GaN offers improved efficiency, decreased size,...

By Rob Coppinger | 26-03-2020

Reliable, portable, rubber bonded low-cost electrical components could be fitted to stroke or sports injury victims’ bodies as part of their rehabilitation at home. Imperial College London (ICL) researchers have invented a way to bond a stretchy and squeezy fo...

By Rob Coppinger | 25-03-2020

The world is currently in a state of crisis. The recent coronavirus pandemic, codenamed COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 is wreaking havoc across many countries, leaving many deaths in its wake while shutting down modern-day life and travel as we know it. Even in today’...

By Liam Critchley | 23-03-2020

The uniformed always talk about using hydrogen as a source of energy - after all, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, isn’t it? True enough, and even here on our planet, hydrogen makes up almost one percent of the Earth’s crust by weight. Bu...

Environment | By Gary Elinoff | 20-03-2020