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News Infineon unveils 1200 V Silicon Carbide MOSFET technology for unprecedented efficiency and performance in power conversion designs
“Infineon Technologies has unveiled a revolutionary silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET technology allowing product designs to achieve previously unattainable levels of power density and performance. Infineon’s CoolSiC™ MOSFETs offer a new degree of flexibility for increasing efficiency and frequency. They …
“Research led by Indiana University physicist Daria Zieminska has resulted in the first detection of a new form of elementary particle: the “four-flavored” tetraquark. Zieminska, a senior scientist in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics …
News Microchip Introduces Hardware Cryptography-Enabled 32-bit Microcontroller for Internet of Things Applications
“Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new hardware crypto-enabled 32-bit microcontroller. The CEC1302’s hardware-based cryptography suite offers significant performance improvements over firmware-based solutions. The CEC1302 makes it easy …
“Your laptop’s battery has been screaming to be replaced for months now, but that replacement isn’t cheap. Which is why this new nanowire battery out of the University of California, Irvine, is so exciting. Batteries like the one …
News ‘Pee power’ as researchers turn urine into a sustainable power source for powering electronic devices
“In the near future this device could provide a means of generating much needed electricity to remote areas at very little cost, each device costs just £1-£2. With growing global pressures to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the …
News Prof. Kilwon Cho and Team Develop New Semiconducting Polymer for Forthcoming Flexible Electronics
“Polymer semiconductors, which can be processed on large-area and mechanically flexible substrates with low cost, are considered as one of the main components for future plastic electronics. However, they, especially n-type semiconducting polymers, currently lag behind inorganic counterparts in the …
“Samsung Electronics and Legrand today showcased, at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, the world’s first Thread-enabled IoT light switch powered by the SAMSUNG ARTIK end-to-end platform. The SAMSUNG ARTIK IoT platform is a fully integrated chip to …
News Stanford researchers create super stretchy, self-healing material that could lead to artificial muscle
“If there’s such a thing as an experiment that goes too well, a recent effort in the lab of Stanford chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao might fit the bill. One of her team members, Cheng-Hui Li, wanted to test …
“Smartphones, as well as smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearables are about to get better at guiding users and mapping their sporting achievements even where satellite navigation cannot work, using the latest electronic compass (eCompass) from STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) , a …
News Supervised Autonomous In Vivo Robotic Surgery on Soft Tissues is Feasible and Outperforms Standard Surgery Techniques
“Surgeons and scientists from Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Health System are the first to demonstrate that supervised, autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery on a live subject (in vivo) in an open surgical setting …