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What can we expect for the semiconductor industry?
Yole Développement and Serma Technologies are organising Successful Semiconductor Fabless 2015 (SSF 2015), the third edition of the conference, to explore the semiconductor supply chain, analyse business trends and technical challenges and highlight success stories. SSF 2015 will take place in Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, Paris from 4th to 6th November.
Solar cell is semi-transparent & bendable
To address the need for a sustainable energy source for flexible electronics, a semi-transparent, bendable solar cell that is made entirely out of plastic is being developed by scientists. The cell, reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, is being developed by a team led by Professor Yinhua Zhou of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Global university partners alliance launched by ARM in China
ARM has launched a university alliance partnership that allows industry partners to develop high quality teaching materials based on their own technologies for engineering students around the world. The hardware and software kits will be centred around ARM teaching materials and will offer the most up-to-date professional-standard platforms and tools. The programme will launch through partnerships with leading Chinese technology companies Beijing...
Rad-hard FPGA dev kit suits high-bandwidth space designs
Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 FPGA Development Kit, the first of its kind to provide space designers with an evaluation and development platform for applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high-speed designs using Microsemi’s RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA device.
Will the roads of tomorrow be paved with plastic?
VolkerWessels, a Dutch group of companies with 15,000 employees and about 120 companies and offices in the Netherlands, UK and America, has announced ambitious plans to create a novel road surface. The concept, suitably named "PlasticRoad", features numerous advantages compared to conventional roads, both in terms of construction and maintenance.
Sustainability issues of the electronics lifecycle
The Green Electronics Council has unveiled the full list of sessions and speakers for the Emerging Green Conference, the premiere international green-electronics conference in 2015. Emerging Green will be composed of 13 tracks and five general sessions. The experts in each will join previously announced keynote speakers from HP, Facebook, Electronic Recyclers International and author Andrew Winston as the three-day conference explores issues of e...
Research aims for non-toxic perovskite production
The efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells has been improved significantly in recent years. On the way towards maturity, however, some challenges remain as yet unmastered. Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are undertaking research to advance the development of perovskite solar cells.By using special thin-film processes, for example, material consumption and costs can be reduced.
Showcasing the future of low energy construction
An open letter, signed by leaders of 55 construction and property companies, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was recently published in the Daily Telegraph. The letter encouraged the government to include 'bold energy efficiency targets in their long term economic plan' and asked for all homes to be zero carbon from 2016. There are many factors as to why there is a growing demand for sustainable and energy efficient buildings, these include cos...
Organisms re-engineered to produce green fuels
A project to develop clean fuels using microscopic organisms called cyanobacteria has been given the green light.Cyanobacteria get their energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. They excrete oxygen as a by-product. Billions of years ago they are thought to have dramatically changed the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, stimulating a flourishing of different forms of life and leading to the near-extinction of organisms that were int...
The extreme environments driving design innovation
One of the planet’s most challenging applications is operating in a harsh environment like downhole drilling. Precision equipment designed for this type of application must be able to survive extreme pressure, shock and vibration, as well as offer a small form factor and long battery life. However, perhaps the biggest challenge for design engineers is how protect these functions from the impact of extreme temperatures.