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National Apprenticeship Week puts down roots for STEM

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:29:14 +0000

This year’s National Apprenticeship Week in the UK runs from 5 to 11 February. The initiative targets all industries and sectors, but for the electronics industry, there is a particular ...

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Cambridge GaN Devices gets development deal with PSU maker

Steve Bush — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:12:16 +0000

Power IC company Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) has signed a deal to develop power adapters and data centre PSUs with Chicony Power Technology of Taiwan, and Cambridge University Technical Services ...

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Scope, logic analyser, waveform generators and more from PC instrument

Steve Bush — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:10:47 +0000

Powered and operated through a USB Type-C cable, Analog Discovery 3 is a 9MHz (or 30MHz) 125Msample/s 14bit oscilloscope, a logic analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator and more from Digilent. ...

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Interns for innovation

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 09 May 2023 08:00:29 +0000

Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab ...

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Liquid gallium alloy micro-fluidic mm-Wave phase shifter

Steve Bush — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:00:34 +0000

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 ...

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University of Nottingham starts electric motor consultancy

Steve Bush — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:52:33 +0000

The University of Nottingham has creates a business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems, claiming that it is the first UK institution to create an independent ...

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Cardiff University innovation hub opens its doors

Steve Bush — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:30:27 +0000

The Translational Research Hub (TRH), designed to foster collaboration between industry and scientists, has officially opened at Cardif University. It is the home of the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) ...

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Robotic finger tip makes human-like ‘nerve’ signals

Steve Bush — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:21:57 +0000

Researches at the University of Bristol have created an artificial fingertip that produces signals that appear to mimic human touch nerve signal. “We found our 3D-printed tactile fingertip can produce ...

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Flexible stretchy supercapacitors

Steve Bush — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:12:20 +0000

The University of Surrey has created a flexible and stretchy supercapacitor “that can be easily integrated into footwear, clothing, and accessories”, it said. Building one involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube arrays ...

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Updated: 500 terabytes of data on a CD, almost

Steve Bush — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:50:18 +0000

The University of Southampton is storing data onto glass at a density that would squeeze 500Tbyte onto a substrate the size of a CD. Data is written as miniature shapes through ...

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