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

Computers that produce far less heat yet compute at higher frequencies than today’s machines are possible with spin waves, signals that propagate due to magnetic fields, not current, and one research team has sent spin waves far enough to make a circuit viable...

By Rob Coppinger | 09-11-2018

The market for advanced surge protection devices (SPDs) is growing rapidly as vendors look to increase the safety of electrical systems. A report from Global Market Insights, Inc. released in October expects the global circuit breakers market to exceed $21bill...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 07-11-2018

Electronics that can monitor a person’s physiological and biochemical signals for disease but have no battery because they are powered by the patient’s own glucose have been developed by Washington State University. Existing sensors for disease detection can b...

By Rob Coppinger | 02-11-2018

The DNA genome that makes us humans tick is vastly complicated and just writing down the entire genetic code would fill around one million pages of very small type. Analysing all that is no small task. Fundamentally deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the way i...

By Paul Whytock | 02-11-2018

A new generation of memory burn-in-testers that are intended to meet the increase in global customer demand for server and mobile storage solutions, is coming on to the market. In October, Advantest Corp. announced the launch of its high throughput, low cost...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 31-10-2018

Building molecular electronics with individual molecules using synthetic Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) origami nanostructures that self-assemble is the goal of researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Self-assembling synthetic DNA origam...

By Rob Coppinger | 25-10-2018

By May 2021, new safety standards for collaborating industrial robotic systems are expected to be in place, amid rising concerns about operator safety in the industrial workplace environment. ISO 10218 is the central safety standard for industrial robot applic...

By Nnamdi Anyadike | 23-10-2018

Everything we use is manufactured on our planet. Even if the temperature, environmental atmosphere, and pressure can be increased beyond Earth normal, other factors are locked. Gravity, for instance, is a somewhat static element of manufacturing materials. Zer...

By Christian Cawley | 19-10-2018