A report in this week’s Nature says that the disruptive content of research papers and patents has been dropping for decades. That counterintuitive finding is not from a grumpy pundit fed up with CES press conferences that seem little different from last year. Instead, it comes from management researchers studying the process of innovation who […]
Conventional fiber optics guide light through solid glass cores that are extremely transparent. The clearest fibers have loss as low as 0.142 decibel per kilometer. Which means that more than one percent of input light remains after a hundred kilometers. Yet solid glass fibers cannot carry very high powers, particularly in short pulses, limiting their use […]
Replicating the human sense of touch is complicated—electronic skins need to be flexible, stretchable, and sensitive to temperature, pressure and texture; they need to be able to read biological data and provide electronic readouts. Therefore, how to power electronic skin for continuous, real-time use is a big challenge. To address this, researchers from Glasgow University […]
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The synergy of electronic processing and optical communications has powered the decades-long boom in information technology. But the need to convert signals back and forth between electrical and optical forms is becoming a bottleneck for the emerging field of integrated photonics. A new type of switch that combines electrical and mechanical effects to redirect light could open […]
The need to decrease the bill of material (BOM) costs in embedded products is being driven by the need for high volume, low-cost sensor systems. As IoT devices become more sophisticated, they require developers to utilize digital signal processing (DSP) to handle more features within the product, such as device provisioning. In this paper, we […]
As wireless protocols grow more complex, spectrum environments become more contested and electronic warfare increases in sophistication. Read how you can combine artificial intelligence and deep learning with commercial off-the-shelf software-defined radio hardware to train algorithms. You can teach them to detect new threats faster, reduce development risk and support burden, and deploy in signals intelligence […]