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Students fly a prototype of Prandtl-M, an aircraft that could fly in the Martian atmosphere

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Some interns get coffee. Others might make copies. Not at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, where a group of students successfully flew a prototype of an aircraft that could one day fly in the Martian atmosphere and send…

Production

Liquid cooling and temperature control for semiconductor process equipment

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Laird has developed custom cooling and temperature control systems for semiconductor fabrication equipment. The critical production tools used in semiconductor fabrication facilities must be reliable and easy to service to minimize…

Data Centers

How much does 1kW of compute power cost in a data center?

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Emerson Network Power, in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, released the results of the first Cost to Support Compute Capacity Benchmark Study, the latest report in the Data Center Performance Benchmark Series. The study analyzed…

Trends

Seismic shield: large-scale metamaterials combat earthquakes in 3D model

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Metamaterials - artificial structures that exhibit extraordinary vibrational properties - could come to the rescue of regions threatened by earthquakes, according to new results published in the New Journal of Physics. The study, performed…

Optoelectronics

Solid state relays now feature next-gen energy harvesting

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Semtech has announced the production release of the TS13102 and TS13103 solid state relays. These enhanced solid state relays expand the company’s Neo-Iso product platform and enable self-powered control systems in IoT applications, such as…

Medical

Bluetooth enables direct streaming between hearing aid & smartphones

Editorial Team Aug 24, 2016

Oticon has licensed and deployed the CEVA RivieraWaves Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology for use as part of the Bluetooth implementation in its recently announced Oticon Opn hearing aid. Oticon Opn combines breakthrough technologies…

Communications

Programmable routers enable more flexible traffic management

Editorial Team Aug 23, 2016

Like all data networks, the networks that connect servers in giant server farms, or servers and workstations in large organizations, are prone to congestion. When network traffic is heavy, packets of data can get backed up at network…

Medical

IR device could help to improve diagnosis of ear infections

Editorial Team Aug 23, 2016

A new device developed by researchers at MIT and a physician at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center could greatly improve doctors’ ability to accurately diagnose ear infections. That could drastically reduce the estimated 2 million cases…

Medical

Bio-active smart implants actively fight post-operative infection

Editorial Team Aug 23, 2016

Funding has been provided by Innovate UK supporting the next stage in development of a bio-active implant, Smart Spacer, which will counter post-operative infection following knee surgery. The programme has the potential to substantially…

Automotive

Adjustable linear current regulators suited for automotive LED lighting

Editorial Team Aug 23, 2016

Allegro MicroSystems Europe has announced two new adjustable linear current regulators for driving automotive LED arrays. Allegro’s AEC-Q100 qualified A6274 and A6284 devices include many new features designed to further enhance the…