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Researchers at the University of Southampton have used a novel holey fibre and a laser to drill square holes for display manufacturer Exitech
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A rat’s tale: scientists study whiskers
R4513 is a rat pioneer. Thanks in part to R4513, researchers from two UK universities should this summer complete a robot rodent that uses whiskers to collect information about its environment. Over the last 30 months the Whiskerbot project has been developing models of how the rat uses its whiskers, how the information is interpreted at the follicle, and how ...
Fast optical modulator adapted to silicon process
US researchers have developed a high-speed optical modulator that can be integrated with existing silicon process technology
Analogue IC design – heading for a crisis?
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
Power source scavenges energy
University of Southampton spins out firm to make power sources which scavenge vibrational energy from the environment
Blue LED creator gets £103m
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 ...
Programmable boost at Altera
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. ...
Cyrix PC bid as Intel compatible chip fails
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 ...
