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World’s first carbon-14 diamond battery

World’s first carbon-14 diamond battery

Researchers in the UK have developed a radioactive diamond battery that could last for thousands of years using carbon-14.The carbon-14 diamond battery is the world’s first, says the team at the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Carbon-14...

Published on: December 05, 2024

Playing with light and symmetry

Playing with light and symmetry

In a recent study at the University of Twente, researchers discovered a way to scatter light in a special, symmetrical way using nanotechnology. This has potential for future technologies such as anti-counterfeitingFor the study, the researchers printed cubes about five times smaller...

Published on: December 05, 2024

New package cuts GaN junction temperature by 25%

New package cuts GaN junction temperature by 25%

Chinese power chip maker Innoscience Technology has introduced four top-side cooled gallium nitride (GaN) transistors that reduce the junction temperature by 25%.The 100V to 150V GaN-on-Silicon enhancement mode high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) in the newly released Innoscience En-FCQFN top-side cooling package...

Published on: December 05, 2024

Soitec, GF team on 300mm RF-SOI

Soitec, GF team on 300mm RF-SOI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is to use 300mm silicon on insulator wafers from Soitec in France for its 9SW RF process technology.The deal provides supply of advanced RF-SOI engineered substrates required for 5G, 5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi, and other smart mobile device Radio Frequency Front-End (RFFE)...

Published on: December 05, 2024

Cadence aids AST in advancing space-based cellular broadband

Cadence aids AST in advancing space-based cellular broadband

Cadence Design Systems and AST SpaceMobile have teamed up to advance AST SpaceMobile’s mission to eliminate connectivity gaps and connect people around the world with high-speed, space-based broadband internet access.The result is the AST5000 ASIC, a custom, low-power architecture that is the...

Published on: December 05, 2024

Proof-of-concept NFC Digital Product Passport or NDPP mobile reader

Proof-of-concept NFC Digital Product Passport or NDPP mobile reader

A proof-of-concept mobile reader application for Android and iOS that can read on-product NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) data has been launched by the NFC Forum. It was one of a wide variety of demonstrations of DPP-enabled products at the recent Vision...

Published on: December 04, 2024

COSEL picks ROHM EcoSiC™ technology for 3.5 kW AC-DC PSUs

COSEL picks ROHM EcoSiC™ technology for 3.5 kW AC-DC PSUs

A leading power supply manufacturer in Japan, COSEL has adopted EcoSiC™ products from ROHM in the HFA/HCA series of 3.5 kW output AC-DC power supply units (PSUs) for 3-phase applications.Incorporating ROHM SiC MOSFETs and SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) into the forced...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Škoda tops 1m battery systems, expands Czech plant

Škoda tops 1m battery systems, expands Czech plant

Škoda Auto is expanding its battery plant in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic with a third line as it produces its millionth battery system.The carmaker has been manufacturing high voltage traction batteries since 2019, when it launched battery production for the...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Global alliance for THz comms tech

Global alliance for THz comms tech

A $100m global alliance has been formed to develop next-generation ultra-high-speed wireless communication technologies in the 300GHz, or THz, band.The alliance of 10 research institutes and universities spun out of a project in Japan and is led by Professor Minoru Fujishima of Hiroshima University’s Graduate...

Published on: December 04, 2024

Q5D raises £2m for automated wiring robot

Q5D raises £2m for automated wiring robot

Q5D Technologies has raised £2m for the development of its automated wireless harness tools.The funding for the UK startup comes from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund and includes £500,00 from UK fund Maven Equity Finance which also backed millimetre wave...

Published on: December 04, 2024