Category: Technology

Turn Your iPad Into A Second Screen with Luna
It is possible now to turn your iPad into a second display using Luna Display! Luna Display is a hardware solution that extends your Mac desktop to your iPad, creating a wireless second monitor maintaining high resolution. In fact, Luna is one of Astro HQ products, a startup working on...
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Coulomb Transistor — A New Concept Where Metal Nanoparticles Are Used In Place Of Semiconductor
A research group at the University of Hamburg has created a unique coulomb transistor that operates on the principle of the voltage control of the electron band gap in metallic quantum-dot nanoparticles. This Single-electron transistor represents an approach to develop less...
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Diamond-Based MOSFETs Are Now Real
A research group at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed logic circuits equipped with diamond-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) at two different operation modes - a first step toward the development of diamond integrated...
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Water Splitting With Solar Energy
Using solar energy to split water provides an efficient way for large scale renewable energy conversion and storage. A group of researchers from TUDelft and AMOLF have successfully developed an efficient and stable photo-electrode that could improve water splitting with solar...
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TI packages DLP Pico projector display tech for “any low-cost processor”
With a $99 evaluation kit/module, Texas Instruments aims to widen design-ins of its projection-based, ultra-compact display technology. By Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com Developers can, TI says, implement DLP (‘digital light processing’) display technology with almost...
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GPS vs. Beacons vs. Wi-Fi: Three Location Identifier Technologies
In IoT and digital age, location-based services applications are widespread: starting from Google maps to anti-loss devices and not ending with location-based marketing. The most common technologies used for user location identification are: GPS, WiFi and Beacons (a custom BLE...
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Next Generation Solar Cell That Can Capture Nearly All Energy of Solar Spectrum
Researchers developed a multijunction solar cell on a GaSb substrate that can efficiently convert the long-wavelength photons typically lost in a multijunction solar cell into electricity. This prototype cell has an efficiency of 44.5% which is higher than conventional solar cells. A...
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290Hz Narrowband Laser On Chip For Numeros Photonic Applications
Researchers from the MESA+ research institute at University of Twente have collaborated together with the provider company of the customized microsystem solutions "LioniX International" to achieve the lowest bandwidth tunable diode laser on a chip. The newly-developed laser operates...
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