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Circuit boards that are almost entirely biodegradable have been developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow, electroplating circuitry onto compostable substrates – including chocolate. Instead of conventional circuit boards that are sent to landfill, adding to the problem of electronic waste, the team has developed a method to print zinc-based electronic circuits on environmentally-friendly surfaces such as paper and ...

The photonic chips contest offers startups the chance to win up to €2M investment and €100K in services. Photonic chip industry accelerator PhotonDelta has announced the second global engineering contest. This year, the competition will focus on communications and computing, imaging, sensing and wireless applications. Last year’s winner was MIT spin-off, Perceptra and the photonic chip-based Raman sensor for real-time ...

A competition launched by the IEEE offers six student teams the chance to attend next year’s Electronic Components and Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. There are three challenges, each dealing with a critical aspect of simulation and reliability in electronic packaging. The first is for BSc and MSc students: to define a low-cost robust thermal solution for a high power ...

Conrad is stocking the Calliope Joy-Car educational robot from Joy-iT. “It features a horn, indicator lights, headlights, reversing and brake lights as well as line tracking, ultrasound, infrared and wheel speed sensors,” said Conrad. “Depending on your programming skills, these modules can be operated by a variety of both entry and advanced programming languages, simulating the behaviour of an autonomously ...

We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. You are invited to select – from below – the research project from the last year that you feel will make the largest impact on the commercial market in the next five years. The five universities ...

XCAM’s CEO, Karen Holland, has been appointed Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick University. Warwick University It means she has now joined Warwick University’s newly established Industry Advisory Board within the Engineering Department. The Northampton-based company specialises in the design and manufacturing of customised digital cameras for a range of scientific. She co-founded it almost 30 years ago as a spin-out ...

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to eliminate magnetic interference from any external sources. For example, nearby electronics and even the Earth’s magnetic field. And the MuRoom within the lab will enable researchers to detect extremely weak ...

Swansea University has hosted a course on semiconductor cleanroom skills at its Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM). The aim of the course is to equip students with the expertise to become semiconductor scientists and engineers. Working in such ultra-clean environments for manufacturing and technology development requires very specific skills, highlights the university. Such skills are in high demand in ...

Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms are the subject of UL-Ireland research project announced today. Such surfaces can be used to intercept weak millimetre-wave and terahertz signals, boosting and guiding them to receivers, according to the University of Glasgow, which is working with the Tyndall National Institute’s Wireless Communications Laboratory on the project, called AR-COM. “Current materials used ...

CSEM, the Swiss technology innovation centre is part of a consortium which is developing an AI-equipped drone to identify invasive and potentially damaging plants. Buddleia, or butterfly bushes, and Japanese knotweed can replace native plant species and others like narrow-leaved ragwort are poisonous. They can cause damage to the infrastructure, damaging railway tracks and signal installations or reduce sight lines. ...