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Making health and motion sensing devices more personal

“An electrical impedance tomography toolkit lets users design and fabricate health and motion sensing devices. Previous definitions of “well-being,” limited to taking a brisk walk and eating a few more vegetables, feel in many ways like a distant past. Shiny …

New optical ‘transistor’ to speed up computation up to 1,000 times, at lowest switching energy possible

“An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons. In addition to direct power saving, the switch …

Now everyone can build battery-free electronic devices

“Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world’s first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user’s kinetic energy from button mashing to power an unlimited …

Purdue record for the whitest paint appears in latest edition of ‘Guinness World Records’

“Want to save big on your air conditioning bills? Wait a few years to coat your home with the world’s whitest paint, which may dramatically reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning. The paint, developed at Purdue …

Quantum cryptography Records with Higher-Dimensional Photons

“A research team at TU Wien developed a new quantum transmission protocol that allows a higher data transmission rate and is much more robust against interference. Quantum cryptography is one of the most promising quantum technologies of our time: Exactly …

Reduce Switching Losses up to 50% While Accelerating Time to Market with the First Fully Configurable Digital Gate Driver for Silicon Carbide MOSFETs – Now Production Ready

“New technology enables electric buses and other e-transportation power systems to meet and exceed stringent environmental conditions while maximizing efficiency As demand for electric buses and other electrified heavy transport vehicles increases to meet lower emission targets, silicon carbide-based power …

Renesas Accelerates Deep Learning Development for ADAS and Automated Driving Applications

“New R-Car SDK is an Easy-to Start & Easy-to-Use Development Framework for the R-Car V Series SoCs. Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today unveiled the R-Car Software Development Kit (SDK), a complete software platform …

Renesas Expands RA MCU Family with New RA4 Entry-Line Group Offering Optimal Value with Balanced Low Power Performance and Feature Integration

“New RA4E1 MCUs Based on Arm® Cortex®-M33 Core Are the First Entry-Line Products of the RA4 Series and Deliver Optimized Combination of 100MHz Performance with Lowest Active Power Consumption Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced …

Research guides future of plastic waste chemical recycling

“New research from the College of Engineering aims to ease the process of chemical recycling – an emerging industry that could turn waste products back into natural resources by physically breaking plastic down into the smaller molecules it was originally produced …

Researchers find a new way to control magnets

“Reversible system can flip the magnetic orientation of particles with a small voltage; could lead to faster data storage and smaller sensors. Most of the magnets we encounter daily are made of “ferromagnetic” materials. The north-south magnetic axes of most …