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Using graphene for flawless tunnelling accelerometers

“An ERC Proof of Concept grant is enabling Aalto University to work on a novel concept for a tunnelling accelerometer using graphene’s unique properties. If successful, the project could appeal to industries producing high-precision applications. Accelerometers are used in …

Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Power Chips

“Academics have high hopes for ferroelectric materials. Adding a single layer of these materials, which have unusual electrical properties, to today’s transistors could radically decrease the power consumption of chips. But as engineers presented the latest research on ferroelectrics …

Developing reliable quantum computers

“Quantum computers may one day solve algorithmic problems which even the biggest supercomputers today can’t manage. But how do you test a quantum computer to ensure it is working reliably? Depending on the algorithmic task, this could be an …

Digital Control Meets Intelligent Analog to Streamline Design

“Simplify development of traditionally complex designs with new PIC® and AVR® families featuring Core Independent Peripherals and Intelligent Analog Whether it’s used as an initial introduction into embedded development, the main controller of a connected application or as an …

Finding the Needle in a Digital Haystack

“Surveillance cameras. Smart thermostats. Baby monitors. Home automation systems. Self-driving cars. In recent years, tens of millions of such “edge devices” have been connected to the Internet. It’s projected that by 2020, there will be as many as 50 …

Intel Creates Neuromorphic Research Community to Advance ‘Loihi’ Test Chip

“This week, we hosted the Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) workshop at our Oregon campus with the goal of bringing together researchers from different scientific disciplines to discuss and explore the development of next-generation computing architectures, including neuromorphic computing. Today …

MIT physicists observe electroweak production of same-sign W boson pairs

“With the aid of the Compact Muon Solenid detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a Laboratory for Nuclear Science-led group seeks to further understand the building blocks of matter. In research conducted by a group led by MIT Laboratory for …

Modified, 3D-printable alloy shows promise for flexible electronics, soft robots

“Researchers in Oregon State University’s College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots. The advance by a team within the college’s Collaborative …

New graphene laser technique opens door for edible electronics

““Laser-Induced Graphene by Multiple Lasing: Toward Electronics on Cloth, Paper, and Food” Electronics, the lifeblood of the modern world, could soon be part of our daily diet. In a study appearing in ACS Nano, scientists report that they have developed …

Smart Heat Control of Microchips

“Miniaturization of computer chips is a perfect gateway for attacks by hackers: Microchips are highly sensitive and might be destroyed physically by specific overloading. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have now demonstrated that monitoring of the processors’ thermal patterns …