The electronics industry has adopted a wealth of practices to foil or at least identify counterfeit components, from marking to x-raying. Now the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling upon engineers to ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The whole concept of servicing satellites in space is just so crazy that with the very rare exception of bajillion dollar pieces of hardware like Hubble, satellites just aren't designed to be repaired or refueled. They get put into orbit, ...
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The hardness, crystalline structure and wide bandgap of gallium nitride (GaN) make it ideal for a variety of applications, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes that read blu-ray discs, transistors that operate at high ...
Tags: III-V Semiconductor, Laser
We were pleasantly surprised by the number of robotics announcements at CES this year. In the past it's been a bit of a snoozefest, since robotics companies didn't want to tussle with all of the other major electronics manufacturers for ...
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Sometimes when I think of the human brain,the theme from"Star Trek"starts playing in my own head.It's the music of great unknowns—and in certain ways the human brain,with more connections between its cells than there are galaxies in ...
Tags: human brain, Brain Research
"Where are the robots?" That was what many people were asking when events at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant spiraled out of control in March 2011. With deadly levels of radiation collecting inside the damaged reactors, attempting to ...
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have used low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of p-type gallium nitride (GaN) to achieve intentional surface roughening of a solar cell device, thereby ...
Tags: Ingan Solar Cell, MOCVD
We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
Tags: Robotics, Electrical, Electronics
We're super excited for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials that run tomorrow and Saturday,and we hope you are too.Before we get all wrapped up in it,though,it's important to understand what's realistic to expect from the robots during the ...
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
US-based Moderna Therapeutics has announced the completion of a new financing round, raising $110m to develop messenger RNA Therapeutics. In aggregate, Moderna has secured more than $415m in financing and partnerships to date from the ...
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested another US$15.50 million into future R&D of semiconductors and chips, according to a blog entry by Michael Cooney, Online News Editor for Network World. The funds will be ...
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A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butterflies have already inspired designs of new ...
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Scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric, in collaboration with a team based at the University of Washington are currently developing a small, light-weight device that can detect a wide range ...
Yahoo is expanding its research division, Yahoo Labs, with a total of 50 PhD hires planned for this year as the firm looks to expand its "science-led innovation" department, which looks into technologies including big data and artificial ...
Tags: Yahoo, Emerging Tech