Always connected, always safe: Technology provides a ... 22/05/2012

It's a somewhat chilling statistic; 1.2million people will die on the world's roads this year. By the time you have finished reading this sentence, ...
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New WEEE reuse specification aims to reduce the number of ... 22/05/2012

In March 2011, a new publicly available standard was established to reduce the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) ending up ...

IP advice: What is the Patent Box? 22/05/2012

New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer advice and information to help companies ...

E-waste: How industry associations are helping engineers ... 08/05/2012

Electronic waste is a huge global problem and one whose impact on our environment is not expected to lessen any time in the near future.
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Large scale fuel cells near commercial application 08/05/2012

"Fuel cells are the most promising new form of energy generation – and always will be!" That is the unkind jibe sometimes levelled at this ...
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Balanced approach matches analogue design requirements 08/05/2012

Despite its continuing – and, in many cases, increasing – importance in modern chips, analogue and mixed signal (AMS) design has proved difficult to ...

Affordable imaging technology could help to unlock the ... 10/04/2012

Medical imaging is one of the underrated miracles of modern medicine. Only a few decades ago, the field consisted of little more than X rays; today, ...

Can tweaking the analogue properties of digital circuits ... 10/04/2012

As semiconductor process technologies get ever smaller, the effects of stochastic variability become more pronounced. It's no surprise: because there ...

IP advice: What is Intellectual Property? 09/04/2012

In this new feature, New Electronics has partnered with leading intellectual property law firm D Young & Co LLP to offer advice and information to ...

Could a true worldphone be built in the near future? 27/03/2012

Apple's new iPad went on sale earlier this month sporting a modem capable of handling the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile protocol, but with no ...

Project looks to develop 'disruptive technology' based on ... 27/03/2012

Slowly, but surely, the domains of light and electrons are converging, but the marriage between the two very different technologies is taking a long ...

Architecture optimisation as a tool for low cost low power ... 13/03/2012

The need for low cost and low power consumption drives semiconductor companies and their customers towards devices made on advanced processes.

Product testing passport gives access to all areas 28/02/2012

On an increasingly technologically level playing field, brand reputation sets one manufacturer apart from another. A significant part of that ...

Will haptics transform the way in which we interface with ... 14/02/2012

We are surrounded by electronic machines, many of which have advanced at an astonishing rate. But, arguably, the way we interact with these machines ...

FPGA-PCB codesign; a 21st Century approach to integrating ... 14/02/2012

Integrating advanced fpgas on a pcb is becoming increasingly challenging, with issues including generating optimal fpga pin assignments that do not ...

New transistor design tackles threshold voltage variability ... 10/01/2012

As cmos transistors continue to get smaller and smaller, it becomes increasingly difficult to make them behave in a similar fashion. With more and ...

Silicon photonics the favoured approach to moving vast ... 13/12/2011

The 21st Century is experiencing a data avalanche. Not long ago, a terabyte (1012byte) was seen as a vast amount of data. Today, you can have a ...

Diamond based MEMS devices to solve future communications ... 13/12/2011

The perceived wisdom is that diamonds are a girl's best friend. But the highly coveted allotrope of carbon is beginning to find friends amongst those ...

UK's contract electronics manufacturers seeing strong order ... 22/11/2011

The impression given by a range of national media is that UK manufacturing, in general, is on the ropes. But when it comes to the electronics sector, ...

UK graphene research leading the field 08/11/2011

The UK is setting the pace in the race to develop and commercialise graphene and this lead looks set to continue with Chancellor George Osborne ...

Will 2.5D technology be the move which sparks further ... 08/11/2011

When a new range of fpgas is introduced, the roll out is usually spread over a long period. Smaller parts will appear first, with the largest members ...

Digital isolation rivals optocouplers in terms of power, ... 25/10/2011

For years, designers of industrial, medical and other isolated systems had limited options when implementing safety isolation: the only reasonable ...

Leading research institute sheds light on applications for ... 11/10/2011

The term 'photonics' has, over the last couple of years, come to the forefront in a range of markets. Yet photonics, as a technology, has been around ...

Outlook 2012: The light fantastic 01/10/2011

Optoelectronics – the partnership of technology and light – is an area of great innovation and exciting development. Helped by the rapid evolution of ...

Outlook 2012: Brighter outlook for solar cells 01/10/2011

Research into solar cells has succeeded in improving the efficiency of the process of converting photons into electrical energy. Laboratory cells ...