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Ten Times Better: A Liberation Blow in Switching Performance

ELE Times Bureau - March 12, 2021

The technological progress of industrial equipment has become almost dizzyingly fast - and so have the performance demands on the necessary components. Under these signs,...

Semiconductors and Chips

New Renesas Electronics Ultra-Low-Power RA4M2 Microcontrollers for IoT

ELE Times News - March 12, 2021

Mouser Electronics is now stocking RA4M2 microcontrollers from Renesas Electronics. The RA4M2 Group expands the RA4 Series microcontrollers, delivering an exceptional combination of very...

Photonics

Seeing Both Sides of Light Collection

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

Two types of materials are better than one when it comes to solar cells, as revealed by an international team that has tested a...

Battery and Energy Storage

How Can Consumers Conserve Energy During Peak Periods

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

New research by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation has identified how effective certain incentives can be in motivating people to use less energy...

Automation

Smart Windows Could Reduce the Need For Energy-Hungry Air Conditioners

ELE Times Bureau - March 12, 2021

Smart Windows that control the amount of heat that enters or leaves a building can reduce the need for energy-intensive air conditioning units and...

Photonics

Robots Learn Faster With Quantum Technology

ELE Times News - March 12, 2021

Artificial intelligence is part of our modern life by enabling machines to learn useful processes such as speech recognition and digital personal assistants. A...

Photonics

Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy Innovation for Simultaneous Multicontrast Imaging

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a new hybrid imaging technique, allows us to listen to the sound of light and see the color of biological...

Sensors

How To Make All Headphones Intelligent

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

How do you turn "dumb" Headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that...

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence for Energy Efficiency

ELE Times News - March 12, 2021

Most new achievements in artificial intelligence (AI) require very large neural networks. They consist of hundreds of millions of neurons arranged in several hundred...

Renewable Energy

Softened Wood For Electricity in Homes

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

A multi-institutional team of researchers has found that it is possible to use a type of fungus to soften wood to the point that...

Innovations

Computer Scientists Have Developed Algorithm in Navigation

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is...

Renewable Energy

Researchers Assess Industrial Air Capture Plant’s Life Cycle

ELE Times News - March 12, 2021

The ultimate target of many environmental interventions is to drastically reduce CO2 emissions and minimize its presence in the air. One tool that could help...

Artificial Intelligence

STMicroelectronics Powers Affordable Edge AI Development with Computer-Vision Launchpad for STM32 Microcontrollers

ELE Times Research Desk - March 12, 2021

A new AI firmware function pack and camera-module hardware bundle from STMicroelectronics enable embedded developers to build affordable and powerful computer-vision applications running locally,...

Artificial Intelligence

3D-Printed Rocks, Machine Learning Can Detect Unexpected Earthquakes

ELE Times Bureau - March 11, 2021

Geoscientists at Sandia National Laboratories used 3D-printed rocks and an advanced, large-scale computer model of past earthquakes to understand and prevent earthquakes triggered by...

Innovations