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ABB (Zürich, Switzerland) is rolling out high-power battery charging that reaches full power in seconds for electric buses in Geneva. A $16m order from Geneva’s public transport operator and Swiss bus manufacturer HESS will provide flash charging and onboard electric vehicle technology for 12 TOSA (Trolleybus Optimisation Système Alimentation) fully electric buses running from Geneva airport.
Flash charging technology powers electric buses in seconds | Electronics EETimes
WHAT if “we can arrange the atoms the way we want; the very atoms, all the way down”? So asked the physicist Richard Feynman in an influential 1959 lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” This manipulation would mean that information, like text, could be written using atoms themselves. In his speech, Feynman predicted that the entire Encyclopædia Britannica could be written on the head of a pin. Just over three decades later, a group of scientists at IBM managed exactly that. They were able to write their company’s name using 35 xenon atoms resting on a sheet of nickel—the first demonstration of precise atomic placement
Scientists pave the way for large-scale storage at the atomic level | The Economist
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation possible under the laws of thermodynamics. The findings, which have been published in the journal Science Advances, indicate that major reductions in power consumption are possible - as much as one-millionth the amount of energy per operation used by transistors in modern computers.
Magnetic computing promises dramatic energy reduction potential | Smart2.0
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At the 16th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2016) held in South Korea, OLED deposition equipment manufacturer Sunic System unveiled its technical solution for the production of 11K (2,250 ppi) AMOLEDs. Such high resolutions would make adjacent pixels indiscernible, boosting Virtual Reality's realism even close up to the eyes. One drawback of existing OLED deposition systems, explained the company, is the use of linear sources that emit the OLED material through a fine shadow mask, creating a shadow angle that limits the resolution at which adjacent pixels can be patterned.
Sunic System promises 2,250ppi OLEDs for VR | Electronics EETimes
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According to Gilad Rozen, Celeno founder and CEO, Celeno address many current problems with Wi-Fi technology such as speed, coverage and interference at the physical layer, as well as multi-access point (AP) co-ordination and QoS at the upper layers. Celeno Wi-Fi address these issues using both silicon and software virtualization to create smart adaptive Wi-Fi networks for the home market. Gilad describes the company's approach, "Celeno is able to take the technology found in enterprise systems, put them into a chip, and sell into mass end markets such as the home market. Working primarily through the service provider channel, Celeno silicon, known as Quicksilver, and software is designed into home gateways, home routers and set-top boxes, to help service provides alleviate QoE (Quality of Experience), Opex and customer churn issues."
Startup Celeno closes investment round to drive disruptive Wi-Fi technology | Electronics EETimes
Using a proprietary coding technology between antenna subarrays, Fujitsu Laboratories has built a prototype wireless unit capable of high-speed transmissions in excess of 10Gbps. What's more, these high data rates were achieved at power consumption levels on par with today's Wi-Fi, claim the researchers.
New wireless technology promises practical mm-wave high-speed communications | Smart2.0
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Researchers from Aalto University in Finland have published a paper giving simulations of the communications via digitally controlled antenna arrays and claim this could provide a boon to mobile communications. It would do this by replacing multiple frequency-specific antennas for GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and so on with a single antenna system that can support high bandwidths more efficiently. Such antennas would also make numerous analog components used to tune traditional antennas to the desired frequency obsolete. "The next step in the development process is under way with the commencement of tests in cooperation with Huawei using fifth generation mobile phone devices," said Professor of Radio Engineering Ville Viikari, in a statement. "We are also developing together with Aalto University researchers digital electronic systems for controlling the antennas."
Aalto antenna could improve 5G communications | Electronics EETimes
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed ultrathin, transparent oxide thin-film transistors that could address wearable displays. Published in the journal of Advanced Functional Materials, their findings "Skin-Like Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for Transparent Displays" relate to the fabrication of ultrathin and transparent oxide thin-film transistors (TFT) using the inorganic-based laser lift-off (ILLO) method they had already successfully developed for energy-harvesting and flexible memory devices.
Ultra-thin transistors promise high-performance, transparent wearable displays | Smart2.0
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Mristors, a new sort of memory is finally coming..
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has agreed to make spin-transfer torque (STT) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) for Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) Volume production of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) style of STT-MRAM is expected from Sony early in 2017 on 300mm wafers at a variety of manufacturing nodes. Avalanche said it is currently sampling discrete parts up to 64Mbit in capacity to customers and is now poised to ramp the first pMTJ-based MRAM memory in the industry to production in early 2017. "STT-MRAM is an ideal solution for markets such as storage, automotive, IoT and embedded applications," said Petro Estakhri, founder and CEO of Avalanche Technology, in a statement. Rival MRAM company Everspin announced it was sampling a 256Mbit memory earlier in 2016 and that it planned to sample a 1Gbit MRAM based on proprietary pMTJ spin-torque technology later this year. Avalanche's STT-MRAM technology is backed by 229 awarded patents, the company said.
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche | Electronics EETimes
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Oftentimes innovation is incremental. After all, even big, brash new ideas have nuts and bolts that can be endlessly tweaked to improve performance, efficiency, and utility. This year’s Top 10 Innovations winners do include bold, new platforms that look primed to rev up discovery in basic biology, drug development, and clinical labs. But the list also features products that speak to the important, but often underappreciated, tinkering that drives life science innovation.
Top 10 Innovations 2016 | The Scientist Magazine®
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Infineon Technologies and eluminocity GmbH have jointly developed an intelligent streetlight that integrates a charging station for electric vehicles, easing the deployment of a charging infrastructure in residential areas as urban planners switch to LED lighting. In a company statement, CEO and founder of eluminocity Sebastian Jagsch emphasized that the intelligent streetlight can accommodate new sensors as well as new components for mobile communications.
Smart streetlight doubles up as car charging station, 5G tower | Electronics EETimes
Bosch Sensortec designed the BML050 high-precision MEMS scanner to support focus-free laser projection, turning any surface into a virtual user interface.
MEMS scanner allows portable focus-free laser projection | Electronics EETimes
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Researchers from the Renmin University of China have devised a very cheap and scalable temperature sensor made out of paper and traces of gold (for the electrodes) joined by a line of inkjet printer-ready ionic ink as the thermistor. Publishing their results in the ACS Sensors journal under the title "Ultrafast Paper Thermometers Based on a Green Sensing Ink", they detail a very simple implementation where they leverage the benefits of paper as a flexible substrate and the ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([EMIm][Tf2N]) for its non-volatile and hydrophobic nature.
Paper-based thermometer wraps around objects: monitors temperature on all sides | Electronics EETimes
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An innovative new drug can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol to unprecedented levels, say doctors. The results of the large international trial on 27,000 patients means the drug could soon be used by millions. The British Heart Foundation said the findings were a significant advance in fighting the biggest killer in the world. Around 15 million people die each year from heart attacks or stroke. Bad cholesterol is the villain in heart world - it leads to blood vessels furring up, becoming easy to block which fatally starves the heart or brain of oxygen.
'Huge advance' in fighting world's biggest killer - BBC News
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Let’s be honest: Unless you’re the heir to the Parker Pen Company fortune, there is nothing overly exciting about the way that ink is made. Unless you ask the folks behind Graviky Labs, that is. They found a way to recycle air pollution — which causes more than 7.2 million deaths each year — by using a proprietary method to transform it into something you can write with. The fluid ounce of ink needed to fill a pen can be gathered from 45 minutes of car emissions, courtesy of Graviky’s smart process, developed while the founders were studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kickstarter Project Sells World's First Ink Made Out Of Air Pollution | Digital Trends
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