clothing and electronics that helped power the country's economic ascent. Now, factories are rapidly replacing those workers with automation,
according to Goldman sachs. Companies such as electronics maker TCL Corp. are using robots to produce higher-value goods. At one factory in Shenzhen,
the optically transparent thermal blackbody overlay has potential for cooling any outdoor electronics and outdoor structures,
which has been used widely in dyes and organic electronics applications. The organic molecules of this chemical are used widely in electronic devices such as solar cells, LEDS and transistors.
Concept images of the ship have been released by a group of leading British electronic systems companies working with naval defence experts Startpoint.
'From Ocean's Eleven to Star trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.
or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project. Now, the US Air force claims it has advanced the technology,
permanently shutting down their electronics. Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera recording it was disabled.
Boeing's CHAMP takes out enemy electronics with pulse The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has said previously the Western world would be more vulnerable attack because of its increased reliance on electronics.'
#Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light A team of scientists from the University of Chicago
This finding is likely to spawn new developments in emerging technologies such as low-power electronics based on the spin of electrons or ultrafast quantum computers.
"The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers.
#New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process,
including inexpensive printed electronics, intelligent packaging and disposable sensors. Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Cambridge-based technology company Novalia,
including printed electronics. Although numerous laboratory prototypes have been demonstrated around the world, widespread commercial use of graphene is yet to be realised."
""This method will allow us to put electronic systems into entirely unexpected shapes, "said Chris Jones of Novalia."
who could diversify into the electronics sector.""The UK, and the Cambridge area in particular, has always been strong in the printing sector,
In addition to cheaper printable electronics, this technology opens up potential application areas such as smart packaging and disposable sensors,
#Electronics get a power boost with the addition of a simple material The tiny transistor is the heart of the electronics revolution,
"explained Mutsuko Hatano, a professor in the Graduate school of Science and Engineering's Department of Physical Electronics at Tokyo Institute of technology.
or a monolayer and be used in making nanoscale transistors in other electronics. The material was thought originally to be two-dimensional in nature because of the ease with
"The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers.
This high mobility makes the material an ideal candidate for faster, more energy-efficient electronics. However, the semiconductor industry wants to make circuits start
they reduce the signal noise. This should allow the re-emission of quantum key information in a reliable-enough form to preserve the quantum security setup.
We believe that reliably integrating microfluidic cooling directly on the silicon will be a disruptive technology for a new generation of electronics.
#MIT researchers announce new transistors for more power efficient electronics A material called gallium nitride (Gan) is poised to become the next semiconductor for power electronics,
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
Many of these power-electronics systems rely on silicon transistors that switch on and off to regulate voltage but, due to speed and resistance constraints,
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
But Gan-based power electronics, Palacios said, could save a very significant fraction of that.
Another application will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric car, Palacios said. These are in the battery chargers
Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars, while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and,
the device could have applications in voice-command electronics, medical sensing devices that use waves, like ultrasound,
but also carry electronics, sensors and batteries.""This would be an extremely difficult task, since the weight of the body has to be really lightweight for it to jump on water,
The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a common insulator in electronics. Applying voltage to a 250-nanometer-thick sandwich of graphene, tantalum, nanoporous tantalum oxide,
robotics, gesture recognition, biomedical imaging, personal electronics, and more. A paper describing the research was published in the journal Optics Express E
which gives the technology the potential to find applications in the burgeoning field of flexible electronics.
in order to improve the signal to noise ratio. The oversampling value and number of accumulations influence the detection/measurement,
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
#World's highest-performance single-molecule diode created As electronics miniaturization heads towards a theoretical physical limit in the tens of nanometers,
This on/off asymmetric behavior in the nascent field of molecule-sized electronics, on the other hand, is achieved usually by the creation of molecules that chemically emulate the p-n junction.
"In the future, people are going to be wearing more electronics, such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors,"says Patrick Mercier,
a 3d printed shell that contains the control electronics, and a placeholder for a wireless video camera.
consistent advances in power electronics have allowed the kind of combination system that Innovus is building to start to approach commercial viability,
this new material may be the future for the world of electronics as it could facilitate information transfer.
It could be useful in data storage, spintronics, or even in sensors that measure magnetic fields. We could even see it used in future computer technology t
Webb and his colleagues turned to flexible electronics technology to find a possible wearable solution.
whose lab has pioneered many examples of biocompatible flexible electronics.)Researchers eventually developed a lightweight, ultra-thin device that sits on top of the skin without distorting the blood flow it seeks to measure.
which houses control electronics and the video camera holder o
#Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk Univ. in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
liquid cooling for high-performance electronics also could be made more efficient by being able to control the rate of bubbling to prevent overheating in hotspots,
especially in the electronics cooling industry to cool hot spots. Such strategies can be applied effectively through simple electric controls using the new technology. g
which is devoted to building small electronic systems that do their jobs and then self-destruct. Although it might sound counterintuitive to build something that's going to disappear,
Discarded electronics also pose a threat to the environment as they rust and decompose. But electronics that just disappear aren't saddled with these problems
DARPA officials said. VAPR researchers have developed already a few materials that can disappear into thin air,
Researchers also developed a glass material embedded with electronics that shatters into tiny particles after use."
So far, the triggering of neurons has been compared pretty dumb to how existing biofeedback devices and many electronic systems work.
and electrically active crystals in one direction unlocks exotic spintronic switching activityby breaking the symmetry of ultiferroiccrystals using a special compression cell,
The finding demonstrates that the stress of crystal deformation can impart a newfound degree of control over magnetic and electrical behavior in spintronic devices and sensors.
#Graphene nanoribbon finding could lead to faster, more efficient electronics Graphene, an atom-thick material with extraordinary properties, is a promising candidate for the next generation of dramatically faster, more energy-efficient electronics.
However, scientists have struggled to fabricate the material into ultra-narrow strips, called nanoribbons, that could enable the use of graphene in high-performance semiconductor electronics.
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
and so there would be less of a barrier to integrating these really excellent materials into electronics in the future,
but this method only works on metal substrates and the resulting nanoribbons are thus far too short for use in electronics.
affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic systems (CALDES), reported a tunable band gap in black phosphorus (BP),
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
The scientists also predict that using high-end electronics and control of the viscosity gradient of the liquid could further optimize the system.
This high mobility makes the material an ideal candidate for faster, more energy-efficient electronics. However, the semiconductor industry wants to make circuits start
and memory storage devices users will continue to seek long after the proliferation of digital transistors predicted by Moore's Law becomes too unwieldy for conventional electronics."
which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.
In turn, this speed could eventually quicken the pace of electronics and computing. Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day,
The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a common insulator in electronics. Applying voltage to a 250-nanometer-thick sandwich of graphene, tantalum,
#Discovery in growing graphene nanoribbons could enable faster, more efficient electronics Abstract: Graphene, an atom-thick material with extraordinary properties, is a promising candidate for the next generation of dramatically faster, more energy-efficient electronics.
However, scientists have struggled to fabricate the material into ultra-narrow strips, called nanoribbons, that could enable the use of graphene in high-performance semiconductor electronics.
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
and so there would be less of a barrier to integrating these really excellent materials into electronics in the future,
but this method only works on metal substrates and the resulting nanoribbons are thus far too short for use in electronics.
#Flexible, biodegradable device can generate power from touch (video) Longstanding concerns about portable electronics include the devices'short battery life and their contribution to e waste.
#A thin ribbon of flexible electronics can monitor health, infrastructure Stretchy, bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients'health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
By combining thinned devices based on inorganic semiconductors with components & interconnects that are printed 3d/additively manufactured on nontraditional substrates,
Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) can deliver significant size, weight, and power (SWAP) benefits without sacrificing performance.
wearable electronics and sensors for monitoring airman health/performance; conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag;
and inherently more durable circuits that will withstand the extreme strain, shock, and vibration environments typical of Air force missions.
Related to these goals, we are developing approaches to inject and print gallium-based liquid metal alloys into varied materials for stretchable and reconfigurable electronics.
A new world of flexible, bendable, even stretchable electronics is emerging from research labs to address a wide range of potentially game-changing uses.
The common, rigid printed circuit board is slowly being replaced by a thin ribbon of resilient, high-performance electronics.
"Basically, we are using a hybrid technology that mixes traditional electronics with flexible, high-performance electronics and new 3-D printing technologies,"says Benjamin J. Leever, Ph d,
. who is at the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base.""In some cases, we incorporate'inks,
To allow electronics to be bendable or stretchable or even change their configuration after fabrication,
"Leever adds that the Wright-Patterson team is part of a newly created Department of defense-led Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute,
Over the next five years, $75 million will be offered in matching grants to spur domestic development of flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing g
and flexible electronics University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster
and farther--aiding the hunt for flexible electronics, organic solar cells, and other low-cost alternatives to silicon.
Their discovery, reported Sept. 14 in the journal Nature Communications, will aid in the hunt for alternatives to traditional silicon-based electronics.
Material moves foldable electronics, new implantable medical devices a step closer Abstract: Researchers have discovered a new stretchable,
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
flexibility and transparency-all three are needed for foldable electronics-wear out too quickly to be said practical
The scientists also predict that using high-end electronics and control of the viscosity gradient of the liquid could further optimize the system.
explains that this novel signaling mechanism produces sufficient change in current to be measured using inexpensive electronics similar to those in the home glucose test meter used by diabetics to check their blood sugar.
the team's manufacturing method aims to construct disposable tattoo-like health monitoring patches for the mass production of epidermal electronics,
"One of the most attractive aspects of epidermal electronics is their ability to be said disposable,
and portable process for producing these electronics, which, unlike the current method, does not require a clean room, wafers and other expensive resources and equipment.
the electronics are printed onto any polymer adhesives, including temporary tattoo films. The cutter is programmable so the size of the patch and pattern can be customized easily.
spintronic devices. Their study was published in the prestigious Nature Physics journal. The research team, which included Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear physics, studied the interactions between superconductivity
and to create the new generation of electronics. In traditional microelectronics information is coded via the electric charges.
In spin electronics-or spintronics-information is coded via the electron spin, which could be directed along
or against particular axis."Superconducting spintronic devices will demand far less energy and emit less heat.
that the finding will allow development to develop conceptually new spintronic elements. According to Natalya Pugach, superconductive spintronics technologies may help to build supercomputers and powerful servers,
whose energy consumption and heat emission create much more problems than in case of ordinary desktop computers.""Development of computer technologies was based on semiconductors.
Spintronics allows to solve all these problems, "--Natalya Pugach concludes s
#Discovery about new battery overturns decades of false assumptions Abstract: New findings at Oregon State university have overturned a scientific dogma that stood for decades,
and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles.""Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
#Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light: Chance effect of lab's fluorescent lights leads to discovery In contrast to using advanced nanofabrication facilities based on chemical processing of materials,
This finding is likely to spawn new developments in emerging technologies such as low-power electronics based on the spin of electrons or ultrafast quantum computers.
"The electrons in topological insulators have unique quantum properties that many scientists believe will be useful for developing spin-based electronics and quantum computers.
With many photonics and electronics applications, there has been considerable effort in creating artificial materials with optical and dielectric properties similar to air
"building constellations of them can be used in quantum electronics. Physicists from France and Russia have discovered that the magnetic atoms in a two-dimensional layered superconductor create electronic disturbances that look like oscillating"nanostars".
"A"constellation"of these disturbances could be used in quantum electronics. The results of the study have been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Physics.
which makes them more suitable for developing a new generation of quantum electronics. A crystal lattice of a layered superconducting material-niobium diselenide-was used in the tests.
or blood serum along with an array of electronics to transmit the results in real time to a tablet via Bluetooth,
or blood serum along with an array of electronics to transmit the results in real time to a tablet via Bluetooth,
Photonics has the same goals as electronics does, but uses photons--the quanta of light--instead of electrons.
#Silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars.
"This is a demonstration of how tiny electronics can answer interesting, fundamental questions for the larger scientific community,"said Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences and the study's principal investigator."
wearable electronics are gaining traction among consumers, but these gadgets'versatility is held still back by the stiff,
and colleagues point out that the potential of wearable electronics extends far beyond the flashy and convenient.
such electronics need an ultra-flexible, long-lasting energy source that is seamlessly incorporated into the device's design.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, electronics and wearable displays s
Koski lab/Brown University)" Silicon-based compounds are the backbone of modern electronics processing, "said Kristie Koski, assistant professor of chemistry at Brown,
"We think this is a good candidate for bringing the properties of 2-D materials into the realm of electronics,
and flexible, making it a good candidate for many applications, such as high-performance, flexible electronics. Such a thin semiconducting material,
Theye joined by Englund students Matthew Trusheim and Carson Teale (who also at Lincoln Lab) and by Tim Schröder, a postdoc in MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics y
#Performance and durability combine in liquid crystal transistors (Nanowerk News) Crystalline organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of interest for convenient low-cost fabrication by printed electronics.
resulting from the phase transition from a monolayer to a bilayer crystal structure in mono-alkylated liquid crystalline molecules may lead to the possibility of designing new materials for the burgeoning field of printed electronics."
Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK) have developed a method that significantly prolongs the lives of charges in organic electronic devices("Organic Electronics:
and by the need for renewable energy resources, there is currently an enormous scientific and technological interest in transitioning away from silicon based electronics to new organic electronic devices.
Just like living organisms, organic electronics use carbon in complex molecules as their key functional component.
and memory storage devices users will continue to seek long after the proliferation of digital transistors predicted by Moore Law becomes too unwieldy for conventional electronics. he exciting thing is that,
magnetic and mechanical properties that could be used in electronics and may even have implications for understanding biological systems.
However, on their own, these materials are terrible for use in the electronics world. As a conductor, graphene lets electrons zip too fasthere no controlling
which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.
In turn, this speed could eventually quicken the pace of electronics and computing. Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day,
Compact optical transmitter and receiver units could exceed the speed limits of present-day electronic systems and help get rid of the bottlenecks in data centers.
but until last year it had never been made in a pure enough form to be suitable for electronics.
The overwhelming majority of microchips that exist in electronics now are made from silicon, and they work extremely well.
But two problems hinder graphene's uptake in real world electronics. There is no large-scale technology to control the properties,
as well as tests in real device application for future electronics. About AIMEN Located in Northwestern Spain
and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a methodology to temporarily enhance the stiffness of a long, high-aspect-ratio flexible microneedle (e g.,<
The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a common insulator in electronics. Applying voltage to a 250-nanometer-thick sandwich of graphene, tantalum,
affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science's (IBS) Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic systems (CALDES), reported a tunable band gap in BP,
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.
#A new material for transparent electronics he performance of solar cells, flat panel displays, and other electronics are limited by today's materials.
A new material, created by modifying a transparent insulating oxide, replacing up to 25 percent of the lanthanum ions in the host material with strontium ions, offers considerable promise.
and yet are more stable and structurally compatible with the workhorse materials of oxide electronics,
Being structurally and chemically compatible with other perovskite oxides, perovksite LSCO offers considerable promise in the design of all-perovskite oxide electronics s
in a topological insulator, making it possible to turn a device off and on as a potential building block for spintronics,
Possible applications of the new findings include the creation of spintronics, transistors based on the spin of particles rather than their charge.
So having this precise control of the magnetic structure could lead to novel quantum spintronics.
By combining imec patented stretch technology with our expertise in active-matrix backplanes and integrating electronics into fabrics
and theye being eyed for use as building blocks in hybrid structures with unique properties for electronics,
The findings promise a new generation of powerful, energy-efficient electronics, and have been published in the leading British journal Nature Nanotechnology("Evolution of a Designless Nanoparticle Network into Reconfigurable Boolean logic").
Contrary to conventional electronics, they have moved away from designed circuits. By using'designless'systems costly design mistakes are avoided.
The evolutionary approach works around-or can even take advantage of-possible material defects that can be fatal in conventional electronics.
Powerful and energy-efficient It is the first time that scientists have succeeded in this way in realizing robust electronics with dimensions that can compete with commercial technology.
The researchers anticipate a wide range of applications, for example in portable electronics and in the medical world l
Looking ahead, Zhang and his colleagues plan to apply the thermal cloaks in electronic systems, improving the efficiency of heat transfer,
flexible electronics and engineered tissue replacements, but advances have been challenged by the inherent complexity of integrating multiple materials.
These structures may find potential application in flexible electronics, wearable devices, and soft robotics. They also printed reactive materials,
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
flexibility and transparency-all three are needed for foldable electronics-wear out too quickly to be practical,
explains that this novel signaling mechanism produces sufficient change in current to be measured using inexpensive electronics similar to those in the home glucose test meter used by diabetics to check their blood sugar.
#Flexible microfluidic tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
the team's manufacturing method aims to construct disposable tattoo-like health monitoring patches for the mass production of epidermal electronics,
"One of the most attractive aspects of epidermal electronics is their ability to be said disposable,
and portable process for producing these electronics, which, unlike the current method, does not require a clean room, wafers and other expensive resources and equipment.
the electronics are printed onto any polymer adhesives, including temporary tattoo films. The cutter is programmable so the size of the patch and pattern can be customized easily.
and understand the intrinsic spin of electrons to advance nanoscale electronics is hampered by how hard it is to measure tiny, fast magnetic devices.
An emerging field called spintronics explores the idea of using electron spin to control and store information using very low power. echnologies like nonvolatile magnetic memory could result with the broad understanding and application of electron spin.
Spintronics, the subject of the 2007 Nobel prize in Physics, is already impacting traditional electronics, which is based on the control of electron charge rather than spin. irect imaging is really hard to do,
Scientists have been unable to directly image magnetic motion in nanoscale spintronic devices without hugely expensive X-ray sources at national facilities.
#A stretchable far-field communication antenna far wearable electronics The age of wearable electronics is upon us as witnessed by the fast growing array of smart watches, fitness bands and other advanced,
next-generation health monitoring devices such as electronic stick-on tattoos (see for instance"wearing single-walled carbon nanotube electronics on your skin",a"temporary tattoo to monitor glucose levels"or"graphene nanosensor tattoo
("Metal/Polymer Based Stretchable Antenna for Constant Frequency Far-Field Communication in Wearable Electronics"."The paper will be the front cover article of the print edition.
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