Electronics

HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Automotive Display Systems to Grow to $18.6b by 2021, IHS Says

    Center stack display systems are expected to account for half of all revenue growth, while head-up display systems will boast the strongest revenue CAGR at nearly 21 percent.

  • Nanoparticle-Free Ink Enables Ballpoint-Drawn Circuits

    The ink-drawn circuit endured various deformations, such as bending, stretching and twisting without affecting performance.

  • CMOS Cameras: How They Work and How to Use Them

    Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor cameras are a type of image capture device that use an image sensor to register visible light as an electronic signal.

  • Correlated Metals Could Enable Less-Expensive Displays

    In correlated metals electronics move like a liquid, which researchers say produces high optical transparency and high conductivity.

  • Video Pill Uses Fluorescent Light for Better Imaging

    Video pills have relied on illuminating patients’ innards using a light source, restricting clinicians to conclusions based on what they can see in the spectrum of visible light.

  • Fuel-Saving Diesel Soot Sensor Advances

    In a pilot program with New York City garbage trucks, the sensors cut the frequency and duration of "filter regeneration" by half and produced a 1-2 percent fuel savings.

  • Supercapacitor Thread Developed That Can Power Phones

    Advances mean that thread capable of storing and supplying enough power for common devices, and being manufactured at industrial scale, may be a reality.

  • Stretchable Sensor Made from Chewing Gum, Carbon Nanotubes

    To make their sensor suppler, a team member chewed a piece of gum, washed it with ethanol and let it sit overnight.

  • Piezoelectric Sensors Could Generate Energy on Texas Roads

    Electricity could be used to power roadside lights, traffic signals, billboards, charging stations for electric cars and roadway monitoring sensors.

  • California DMV Drafts Rules on Autonomous Vehicle Deployment

    Proposed rule requires a driver and may prompt other states to follow suit.

  • Robotic Hand Controlled by Muscle Vibrations

    Prototype sensor system detects mechanical signals from vibrations produced by muscle fibers that move when muscles flex.

  • Types of Diodes, Their Characteristics and Applications

    A semiconductor diode is a non-linear device whose most outstanding feature is the fact that, basically, current is only allowed to flow in one direction.

  • Sensor Detects Toxins That Leach from Plastic

    For residents in countries that have not banned DEHPs, the device provides a way to ensure there aren’t harmful levels of contamination in packaged food and drinks.

  • Navy Funds Development of Air-and-Water Drone

    By summer 2016 researchers plan to demonstrate a vehicle that can swim in a seawater environment and do complex maneuvers.

  • Baidu to Launch Self-Driving Cars, Buses by 2020

    AutoBrain, the core of the company’s autonomous driving technology, includes positioning, smart decision-making and control, detection and highly automated driving maps.

  • Engineers Build Biologically Powered Chip

    While other groups have harvested energy from living systems, Shepard and his team are exploring how to do this at the molecular level.

  • Faraday Future Taps Las Vegas for EV Plant

    Startup company plans to build a 3-million-square-foot automotive manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas with an initial investment of $1 billion.

  • "Invisible Wires" Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency

    Nanopillars act as funnels that capture light and guide it to a silicon substrate.

  • Pneumatic Suit Operates Without Electronics, Tanks

    The suit uses a pneumatic gel muscle as an actuator in a lightweight design intended to assist people of varying mobility.

  • Samsung Launches Automotive Electronics Unit

    Division will focus on infotainment and autonomous driving.

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