The market for vehicle infotainment systems (VIs) is going from strength to strength with one study suggesting that the global market could hit $62 billion by 2025. The increasing adoption of smartphones - the most prominently used connectivity gateway of an i...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 07-08-2018

A silicon carbide inverter could halve the system cost of a photovoltaic facility and enable solar power to be consistently delivered to a growing number of homes and businesses through the power grid. Solar power arrives as a direct current (DC) and must be c...

By Rob Coppinger | 02-08-2018

X-ray inspection systems for use in the electronics industry have become an important and growing part of the production process. Owing to their ability to detect contaminants, defects, and other inconsistencies in products they are increasingly being seen as...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 30-07-2018

Faster transistors for higher speed electronics are possible with a new two-dimensional semiconductor, Tellurene, made from the element Tellurium. Researchers fabricated Tellurene transistors that exhibited stable performance at ambient room temperatures and o...

By Rob Coppinger | 27-07-2018

Driver error causes around 1.4 million deaths and over 52 million injuries worldwide every year. How much of that is down to driver distraction? The answer is a lot and we know this thanks to a very important study that was performed in America. This monito...

By Paul Whytock | 26-07-2018

The medical electronics market is helping to bring about a revolution in key areas such as diagnostics, treatment, assistance and care. The market encompasses wearable gadgets and wireless connected devices, as well as RADAR technology-based ultrasound machine...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 24-07-2018

An office in 2018 looks very different to one 50 years ago, but the similarities remain. There's a desk, with a typewriter/workstation, and in the corner a Photostat machine/printer. The tools have changed and evolved over the half century, but the setup is co...

By Christian Cawley | 23-07-2018

There are two key issues, or challenges, currently facing industrial automation. Together, these challenges are driving the development of a new exciting form of robotics - the cobot. Depending on who you are talking to, a cobot may be defined as either a coll...

By Mark Patrick | 20-07-2018

The nano electronics market is strengthening on the back of a raft of new technologies and products such as mobile wireless devices, the internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing. A useful working definition for nano electronics is that branch of electronic...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 16-07-2018

A water management system dubbed the Internet of Water and being trialed in Flanders could help control water quality and improve supply, something UK water utilities might find useful. This Belgium system uses wireless-connected sensors and intelligent sof...

By Paul Whytock | 13-07-2018

Genetically engineered bacteria that can detect bleeding in the stomach and potentially other gastrointestinal problems have been combined with electronics that convert the bacterial response into a wireless signal that can be read by a smartphone. “At the mom...

By Rob Coppinger | 12-07-2018

With laptop in hand you are about to set off on your train, metro, bus or tram journey home hoping to get some work done using the onboard Ethernet. What you don’t know is the sheer number of settings, any of which can fail, that make this endeavour possible....

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 09-07-2018