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A Mega-Project on Cybersecurity and Data Protection

02/28/2019

With a total grant amount of € 16 million, 'mega' is hardly an exaggerated designation for the project "CyberSec4Europe". The European Commission desires to set international standards in cybersecurity and boost the effectiveness of Europe's security capacities. The goal of the new

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Interactive Surfaces Enter a New Dimension of Flexibility

02/28/2019

An "interactive surface" refers to an interface whose input and output share a common surface that can be manipulated intuitively with the fingers. However, ordinary multi-touch displays, e.g., liquid crystal displays (LCD), can only provide two-dimensional information, limiting expressions

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Army Lab, Industry Partner to Develop New Materials

02/27/2019

The Army and a major defense contractor established a new research partnership to create novel materials to further enhance the devices and technology used by warfighters. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory -- the Army's corporate research

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Electrically-Heated Silicate Glass Defies Joule's First Law

02/27/2019

Characterizing and predicting how electrically-heated silicate glass behaves is important because it is used in a variety of devices that drive technical innovations. Silicate glass is used in display screens. Glass fibers power the internet. Nanoscale glass devices are being deployed to provide

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Energous Corporation Announces Collaboration with vivo Global

02/26/2019

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Energous Corporation announced a collaboration with vivo Global to explore integrating WattUp into smartphone designs that charge wirelessly over-the-air. “We

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EPC Publishes Reliability Report Highlighting GaN Testing

02/26/2019

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.— EPC announces its Phase Ten Reliability Report, documenting the test results leading to the successful completion of automotive AEC-Q101 qualification. AEC-Q101 demands the highest level of reliability standards for power FETs, requiring not only zero datasheet failures, but

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PSD Celebrating 15 Years of Publishing

02/25/2019

2019 has arrived and it marks a Big Anniversary for the PSD team!  PSD is celebrating our 15th year in publishing for the global power electronic engineering community.  Back in 2004, when the "big publishers" decided that they would close magazines like PCIM

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A New Spin in Nano-Electronics

02/25/2019

In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only: The industry has downsized its components to the nanometer range. But this process is now reaching its physical limits. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are therefore exploring spin

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Faster Method to Read Quantum Memory

02/25/2019

The potential computing revolution that quantum computers have long promised is based on their weird property called superposition. Namely, qubits can take both logical states 0 and 1 simultaneously, on top of any value in between. By mastering superpositions of the whole quantum memory, quantum

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'Goldilocks' Thinking to cut Fuel Cell Cost in EVs

02/22/2019

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The 2019 Toyota Mirai electric vehicle touts zero emissions, thanks to a fuel cell that runs on hydrogen instead of gasoline. But the Mirai has barely left California, partly because today's fuel cell electrodes are made of super expensive platinum. Cutting down

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