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Imec’s Industrial-level Silicon Solar Cells Exceed 20% Efficiency
At this week’s Intersolar Show in San Francisco (July 9-12, 2012), imec presents a 20.04% large-area industrial-level silicon solar cell (certification results from Fraunhofer ISE-Callab). The cell combines a high efficiency with a low-cost industrial process.
Ford Begins Real-World Testing Of Future Car-To-Car And Car-To-Infrastructure Communication Technologies
Ford Motor Company today begins real-world testing of future technologies as part of a research programme aimed at advancing car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication on European roads.
Keeping electric vehicle batteries cool
Heat can damage the batteries of electric vehicles - even just driving fast on the freeway in summer temperatures can overheat the battery. An innovative new coolant conducts heat away from the battery three times more effectively than water, keeping the battery temperature within an acceptable range even in extreme driving situations.
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2011 - Programme of related events at the show
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2011, which will be staged at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre from May 23 to 26, 2011, will give the international photonics industry new impetus for the twentieth time. The world’s leading trade fair will feature an extensive programme of related events and numerous opportunities to exchange technical information and know-how. The highlights of the supporting programme will be the practical talks during the World of P...
EDA Solutions and Europractice to host mixed-signal ASIC design training seminars at DATE 2008
EDA Solutions and the Fraunhofer Institute, one of the Europractice Support Centres, will co-host a program of training seminars on Europractice design kits for the latest version of Tanner Tools at DATE 2008. The practical training sessions, to be held on Wednesday 12 March 2008, will give a hands-on introduction to the design kits and Tanner Tools Pro. They are free of charge and open to all those with an interest in analog and mixed-signal ASI...
EDA Solutions Announces Mixed-Signal ASIC Design Workshops for Incentia and Tanner EDA Design Tools in Germany, Belgium and UK
EDA Solutions announced a series of workshops in Germany, Belgium and the UK, on mixed-signal ASIC design, based on advanced ASIC design tools from Incentia and Tanner.
Fraunhofer and STM Team to Enable Dedicated Solution for Digital Radio Mondiale
STMicroelectronics has announced the signing of an agreement with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS to jointly develop a dedicated low-power ASIC for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) applications such as fixed and portable radios, car receivers, software receivers, and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Allowing listeners to set their radio using station names or IDs, the ASIC will offer excellent audio quality and integration of ...
LED: The light source of the future
Convention and trade fair LpS is beginning in BregenzLED. LED professional symposium + expo (LpS 2011) from 27th through 29th September 2011. Experts all agree: the LEDs are the light source of the future – and the future is beginning today: It will be here in Bregenz world-wide for the first time that developer, purchaser, users, but also researchers, suppliers of LED and system solutions, distributors, engineer service providers and other pe...
PB Swiss Tools SwissGrip Screwdrivers Tested for Quality
Count On Tools Inc, announces that the SwissGrip Screwdriver from PB Swiss Tools recently was evaluated by the Fraunhofer Institute, Europe’s largest organization for research in the field of applied science.
metraTec presents UHF RFID Tunnels for demanding logistics applications
This week metraTec presents its new generation of UHF RFID tunnels which are supposed to reach a nearly 100% read rate even under difficult conditions using a new construction principle. This includes reading 300 or more UHF transponders with unknown orientation inside a box, the presence of metal between the objects or reading tags applied to bottles of liquid. The new technology the UT55 and UT75 are based on was developed and patented in coope...