New deposition process makes LEDs brighter

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) say they have developed a new gallium nitride (GaN) deposition process that purifies high-energy semiconductor materials and reduces defect concentrations by a factor of 1000 relative to typical levels. They predict that LEDs,...

New ZigBee RF4CE chips launched

GreenPeak Technologies have launched three new chips designed to facilitate the development of robust, low cost ZigBee RF4CE remote control applications for television sets and set-top boxes. All three devices have full RF4CE functionality with embedded ZRC and are targeted at...

Wind-up charger boosts battery life for Android phones

element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, present an action-packed episode of View the Original arti...

Nanotape may oust solder pads

Solder pads in IC packages could soon be made obsolete by a new nanotape material developed by researchers at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Stanford University. Using a sandwich of thermally conductive carbon nanotubes between thin metal foils, the nanotape transfers...

Obama gets ‘Sputnik Moment’ wrong by four years

In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama called for more federal government investment in R&D, education and transportation at what he dubbed is a "Sputnik moment". Obama is keen to bolster federal R&D spending in "biomedical, IT and especially clean...

Digital Photo Keychain: Be smaller, be better, the marvelous keychain phot...

Digital Photo Keychain: Be smaller, be better, the marvelous keychain phot...: "by Sakurako KitsaWhen it comes to electronic gadgets, it seems to be the smaller, the better. Now just make a comparison, small or mini ele..." var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-15418589-3']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga...

ARM releases development environment for Linux platforms

the complete end-to-end software development tool suite for ARM-powered Linux and Android platforms’, ARM Developer Studio 5 (DS-5) features an application and kernel space debugger with trace, a system-wide profiler and performance analyzer, a real-time system simulator,...