Tag Archives: University of Birmingham

Birmingham University is looking for licensees and commercial development partners for patented technologies for  power system frequency control and forced oscillations which can cause widespread disruption over entire power grids. Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang (pictured) Chair in Electrical Power Systems at Birmingham’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, and his researchers have  developed technologies to overcome these challenges. Grid frequency ...

The proposed shifter uses a half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide, with phase shifted in a via-pad-slot structure where a through via is attached to a pad surrounded by an annular slot. “The phase shifter does not need clean room facilities for fabrication,” said lead researcher Dr Yi Wang, and “the liquid-metal enabled phase shifting elements have a passive nature, unlike active semiconductor-based ...

One for budding Gadget Masters maybe, or for those who want to deepen their electronics understanding - it's the UKESF's Introduction to Electronic Engineering online course, which is currently free.

The UK government is investing £7 million, via the National Space Innovation Programme, in 21 UK organisations working on innovative space technologies. The idea is that it represents cash injections for “high-risk, high-reward” projects of both companies and universities. Areas addressed include monitoring climate change through Earth Observation and satellite communications to provide greater connectivity to remote places. For example, one ...

Teledyne e2v’s Chelmsford-based Space & Quantum team are working on the development of a Cold Atom Space Payload (CASPA) Accelerometer, for future space missions’ ability to take sensitive measurements of atmospheric drag. The aim is that the sensors will improve scientifc understanding of upper atmospheric dynamics and drive advances in climate modelling, weather forecasting and satellite orbit prediction. The company ...

The universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol have received a government grant of £26.6 million to develop micro-robots (pictured) which will run through underground pipes to find and mend cracks.  “While for now we can only dream of a world without roadworks disrupting our lives, these pipe-repairing robots herald the start of technology that could make that dream a ...

Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Ivan Krastev, a Phd Student at the University of Birmingham. He has shown a deep understanding of power electronics systems and their application to electric vehicles, inventing circuits ...

University of Birmingham scientists have found a solar system with Earth-sized planets from the dawn of the Galaxy – 11 billion years ago. They used data from sensors on NASA’s Kepler space telescope, made by E2V of Essex. Kepler’s telescope stares fixedly at a +/-6° cone of space with the largest NASA image sensor ever, assembled by Ball Aerospace, and ...

The final barrier preventing energy suppliers making the switch from AC power grids to DC systems could now be removed, thanks to research carried out at the University of Birmingham.

The 68020 microprocessor will live on, with a new package, life thanks to a collaboration between Essex-based e2v and Freescale. It is now available in a 132pin ceramic quadpack (CERQUAD), pin-to-pin compatible with the original Freescale plastic quad flat package (PQFP). “This new package option will facilitate the transition from the original PQFP, discontinued in 2010, and enable manufacturers to ...