Problems with solid-state switches are leading some electrical engineers to consider mechanical ones for digital chips. A team of engineers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering are investigating how to develop reliable, ...
ARM has developed the first full 32bit microcontroller built on a flexible plastic material using a 0.8 um process from PragmatIC. The PlasticARM microcontroller consists of 56,340 NMOS transistors and resistors and is built on a plastic substrate ...
Rehana Begg Machine Design A new hydrogel film transfers electrons when heated to generate power. Today’s generation of electronics are super-powerful we run our smartphones for long hours, crunching terabytes of data and even play Minecraft ...
Michigan News A small, inexpensive and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, could help drones and autonomous cars stay on track without a GPS signal. “Our gyroscope is 10,000 times more accurate but only 10 ...
PowerPulse A recent study, led by Professor Kyoung Jin Choi in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has introduced a new advanced energy harvesting system, ...
Nano Dimension Nano Dimension Ltd. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nano Dimension Technologies Ltd., has received a budget from MEIMAD committee of the Israel Innovation Authority which will be used to finance a project to develop 3D ...
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Bundles of microtubes formed by peptides can convert thermal energy into electrical energy. Many peptides and proteins have an innate ability to assemble into long, slender fibers called fibrils and other shapes. ...