University Electronics

US researchers have developed a high-speed optical modulator that can be integrated with existing silicon process technology

Dr Peter Wilson from the University of Southampton forecasts a bleak future for analogue design in the UK and Europe, unless funding can be found for our universities

University of Southampton spins out firm to make power sources which scavenge vibrational energy from the environment

EW News 11/02/2004 – Blue LED creator gets £103mBlue LED creator gets £103m Richard Ball Blue LED and laser diode inventor Shuji Nakamura has been awarded £103m by a Japanese court, recognising his work at Nichia. Nakamura sued Nichia in 2001, claiming he should benefit from his work and patents on blue LEDs. Last year he lost part of the ...

The University of Southampton has made a biosensor which can detect water pollutants in the range 1ng/l to 1µg/l. It is based around a sodium-doped glass slide with 3×3µm potassium-doped waveguides in its surface. “The potassium gives it a higher refractive index, so these waveguides work like optical fibres,” Professor James Wilkinson of the Optoelectronics Research Centre told Electronics Weekly. ...

Technology for inkjet printing lines of conductive inks and polymer semiconductors just 10µm wide is the target of a project being led by Cambridge firm Plastic Logic. The company, with the University of Cambridge and materials suppliers Avecia and Gwent Electronic Materials, was last week awarded £1.2m as part of the Government’s £90m Micro and Nanotechnology Manufacturing initiative, announced last ...