Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
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Colfax Fluid Handling will present new enhanced product Allmind (pat. Pending). Colfax's Allmind pump upgrade reduces total cost of ownership through diagnostic capability and variable speed drive control. Despite the best intentions of ...
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STMicroelectronics has is MEMS sensor product business by acquiring the intellectual property and taking on most of the staff of Israeli company bTendo. ST has been working with the Israeli company to combine bTendo's scanning laser ...
Leviton today introduced a full line of residential Occupancy and Vacancy Sensors that combine state-of-the-art technology with a sleek new design to provide optimal management of lighting and motor loads.Available in either ...
Warwickshire-based utility company Severn Trent Water has implemented a SAP business intelligence solution, and taken the opportunity to decommision a mainframe of a type it had been running since the 1980s. Severn Trent Water CTO William ...
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UK-based Plessey readies for volume chip production, while Germany's Azzurro Semiconductors gains support for move to larger wafers. GaN-on-silicon LED A disruptive approach to lowering the cost of solid-state lighting (SSL) with ...
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Chip designer ARM has been revealing more details about the mission of the forum that it is putting together to help drive standardisation for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, also known as "the internet of things". The forum, ...
Tags: ARM, M2M, NTT Docomo, Telstra, NFC
Holohane adds LED technology to industry-leading portfolio of high-mast lighting solutions Date Announced:01 Aug 2012 New HMAO LED luminaire features multiple lumen packages to maximize energy savings and deliver up to 100,000 hours of ...
US defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp has demonstrated an 850GHz integrated receiver that brings the firm much closer to being first to reach a US Department of Defense goal for developing transistor-based electronics that can operate ...
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KSB presentes its new generation of multi-functional valve control units and positioners for pneumatic quarter-turn and linear actuators. The new Amtronic and Smartronic incorporate functions ranging from simple open/close control of a ...
UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has taken delivery of a CRIUS II-XL metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor (in 7x6-inch wafer configuration) from deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany (which ...
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Plessey Semiconductors has today taken delivery of a CRIUS®II-XL reactor in a 7x6-inch wafer configuration from AIXTRON,as the first part of a multi-million pound investment to create a production line for its new High Brightness ...
Apple is to acquire finger print sensor technology company AuthenTec for $356m (£227m), in a move to enter the mobile payments space. The technology enables smartphone users to securely identify themselves when making mobile ...
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US-based researchers have reported record external quantum efficiencies(EQE)of 10.4%for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes(DUV-LEDs)emitting at a wavelength of 278nm at a continuous-wave current of 20mA[Max Shatalov et ...
A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
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