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New Materials Produce Electricity When Heated

A discovery by MIT researchers may make it possible to power your car or your home from heat. By improving the energy efficiency of thermoelectric materials, a group of researchers has discovered that these materials can produce an enormous amount of energy. Thermoelectric materials produce electricity when one end is heated.

Video: Smart Sensor Gives Vision to Arduino and Raspberry Pi Robots

Pixy2 gives line-following robots the ability to detect intersections and road signs.

Bluetooth Mesh Allows for New Way to Network the Smart Home

Dialog Semiconductor has added SIG support to its Bluetooth low energy ICs.

New Flash Family Designed Specifically for Automotive Applications

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new NOR memory family.

Heilind Electronics Now Stocking the Brady Wraptor A6500 Wire Marking System

Brady’s Wraptor A6500 enhances the quality of wire identification by printing and applying labels in five seconds or less.

Thine and CEL Introduce Camera Development Kit (CDK) to Enable Fast and Easy Advanced Camera System Development

Camera developers can design systems with up to 16MP CMOS camera modules, reducing development time and effort significantly.

A Solid State Replacement for Ultraviolet Photomultiplier Tubes

An avalanche photodiode (APD) with a silicon carbide substrate (SiC) exhibits the sensitivity and high signal gain of a traditional APD with a signal response confined to the ultraviolet (UV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The SiC UV APD serves as an ideal replacement for UV photomultiplier tubes as well as a variety of other low signal UV light applications.

Fishing for Sustainability

A new experimental software tool is designed to decrease the number of denizens of the deep that get discarded in the process of fishing.

Liquid Crystal Shells Could Be Useful for Sensors, Anti-Counterfeiting and More

The research team from PHYMS has been studying the mechanical and optical properties of liquid crystal in order to develop shells that could be useful in many technologies.

DC Voltage Cold Plasma System Safely Sterilizes Medical Equipment

A cold plasma reactor effects room temperature sterilization through DC high voltage instead of the conventional radio frequency or pulsed DC power.

Transistor-like Switch Developed for Spintronics

Spintronics researchers have developed a current switch – the equivalent of a transistor used in traditional electronics to enable and disable the flow of electricity.

Graphene, Spintronics and Solid-state Computing

Researchers have coupled graphene with thin layers of magnetic materials, producing the sort of exotic behavior in electrons that could be useful for next-generation computing applications.

How Sensors are Moving Materials Handling Toward Safe Automation

A Sensata Technologies white paper covers various types of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), market drivers and leading sensing technologies enabling the rise in AGV solutions and systems.

Cybersecurity and Connected Cars

A new study examines the cybersecurity risks for autonomous and internet-connected cars.

New Artificial Intelligence System Can Accurately Detect and Diagnose Malignant Melanomas

The new deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) has been proven to detect skin cancer even better than expert dermatologists.

Leti Innovation Days to Explore Presentations on How Microelectronics are Fueling Innovation and Shaping Global, Post-modern Society

The institute will address how microelectronics are empowering new technological revolutions within industry, changing our daily lives in ways that will shape tomorrow’s global, post-modern society.

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