Mobius Microsystems of Sunnyvale, California, a spin-out from the University of Michigan in 2004, announces a CMOS IC which generates its own frequencies on-chip at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco.
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US university builds caterpillar-based soft-bodied robot
Tufts University in Massachusetts is working on a soft-bodied robot based on a caterpillar: the tobacco hornworm, manduca sexta.
Contact lens LED array aims for in-eye display
Engineers at the University of Washington add an LED array into a flexible contact lens, ultimately aiming at in-eye head-up displays
Wireless network spin-out develops high-performance sensor processing
University College London spin-out Senceive is developing number crunching nodes for its wireless sensor networks. “There are applications which need very high performance processing,” CEO Matthew Britton told EW. “For example, with railway points you need to record samples very fast.” The firm designs and makes networks of self-powered wireless sensors. For example, it is supplying arrays of inclinometers to allow ...
University spin-out takes technology to Germany
University of Southampton spin-out Stratophase has delivered laboratory equipment to a German University.
Government funds photonics research at Surrey University
The University of Surrey is to lead a five year £5m Government funded study into silicon photonics
Electroluminescent thread makes clothes glow in the dark
The University of Manchester develops an electroluminescent thread that can be woven and knitted into cloth to form emissive garments, using coating of dielectric and phosphor layers
Plastic solar cells project gets £5m government funding
The University of Cambridge and The Technology Partnership are to develop plastic solar cells in a project sponsored with £5m by the Government-funded Carbon Trust
Transistor testing costs are a ‘serious’ problem
The cost of testing a transistor will approach and may exceed the cost of manufacturing it, Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at the University of Southampton, has warned
Cambridge scientists find reason for dim green LEDs
Researchers at the University of Cambridge may have found the mechanism that makes green LEDs less efficient that other colours, but can’t reveal details