Europe’s e-car boom is only just getting started and with it the potential to completely transform the region’s transport sector. Along with the rise in e-car demand is a concomitant rise in demand for fuel cell batteries, the most important and costly compone...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 12-12-2018

A flexible mobile phone or a wearable biomedical device could be the outcome of a polymer film that uses pigment to conduct electricity at higher levels than other conducting plastics. The film is transparent, so it could be used for phone displays or a wearab...

By Rob Coppinger | 10-12-2018

All you drivers out there like to think you have a touch of Lewis Hamilton or Sabine Schmitz driving skills, but the sad fact is you really don't. Those drivers have reaction times of around 200 milliseconds, and you'd be extremely fortunate to achieve somethi...

By Paul Whytock | 10-12-2018

The use of mobile fuel cells to bring power to off-grid areas and applications is expanding. This is on the back of a rise in demand for unconventional energy sources and space heating across residential and commercial establishments and a rise in demand for b...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 06-12-2018

As motor vehicle use increases (10 million more cars were on UK roads in 2015 than 1995) so does the risk of a serious road incident and the inevitable tailback. Slow moving traffic impacts everything from haulage to the daily commute, and with just a satnav a...

By Christian Cawley | 04-12-2018

A printed bonding layer up to 120 microns thick on the back of microchips could enable a heat sink that keeps processors 10 degrees Celsius cooler than comparable systems today. Heat is believed to be behind most of the failures of electronics that lead to the...

By Rob Coppinger | 03-12-2018

In a time where there are increasing concerns all across Europe about filling the growing number of STEM-related jobs and how to go about addressing the widening skills gap, there is more impetus than ever to encourage both young children and teenagers to beco...

By Mark Patrick | 29-11-2018

Part Two of this oil and gas technology industry overview focuses on digital technology and data management in E&P (exploration & production). There are at least 10 ‘disruptive’ digital technology areas with the potential to transform this important upstream s...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 27-11-2018

In a year’s time electronic integrated circuit designers will be able to download a programme to help them design and which will send back data to its developers to improve machine learning for microchip layouts. The crowdsourcing of designers and designs for...

By Rob Coppinger | 23-11-2018

This in depth two part overview sets out to examine the use of increasingly sophisticated electronic technologies in the global oil and gas industry. Part One here, focuses on the use of drones and other devices for the laser scanning of oil and gas facilities...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 20-11-2018

Faster flexible electronics and more efficient solar cells are the promise of gallium arsenide as researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) begin to work on photovoltaic devices using their cheaper graphene production process. Gallium arsenide...

Semiconductors | By Rob Coppinger | 16-11-2018

Developments in light emitting diode (LED) lighting, buoyed by the phase out of halogen lamp products in the EU from September 1, are continuing apace. Although replacing halogen with energy saving light emitting diodes (LED) is not a new development, figures...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 13-11-2018