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Richard LeCain has been appointed chief technology officer at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC). “Richard has more than 20 years of experience working in the battery industry, having previously held technical and leadership positions at A123 Systems and Britishvolt,” according to UKBIC. He “has worked in battery plants across the world, transferring processes and designs from the lab into ...

Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we profile Raymond Liu, an Applications Engineer at EDA Solutions. Achievements His supervisor summarised Raymond as “one of the best interns ...

Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight Jasmine Brittan, a student at the University of Warwick and a Sustainability Electronics Intern at ZF Automotive. Achievement As ...

5G services enhance safety and convenience in connected vehicles – but rely on a reliable connection. A project at the University of Warwick is dedicated to making sure cars and equipment are 5G-ready. The way cars are designed, made and used should significantly change with 5G connectivity. Critical properties include low latency, real-time determinism, the ability to handle large quantities ...

Gigafactories and microfactories are two different approaches to the demand for automotive batteries, discovers Caroline Hayes. Tesla’s Gigafactory 1, or Giga Nevada, may sound like a nightclub venue for millennials, but it is the company’s battery production facility in the Nevada desert. The plans allow for 5.3 million ft2 of floorspace. “To put things in perspective, its total floorspace, distributed ...

Warwick University has received £5.2 million in funding under one of the government’s Prosperity Partnerships to work with Element Six, a De Beers Group company, to develop and establish a supply chain for the next generation of diamond-enabled technologies. They include: the thermal management of semiconductors in high powered communications (enabling all of our high demand 5G and video streaming) quantum ...

Andover distributor Inseto has supplied the University of Warwick with a SemiProbe PS4L probe system for developing next-generation silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. “The PS4L provides an accurate and repeatable means of mechanically interfacing fabricated prototype devices – as die or on the wafer – with an analyser that can inject thousands of volts and measure hundreds of amps,” according to Inseto. ...

Adding a Schottky junction to certain crystals can turn them into piezoelectric or pyroelectric crystals, even if they were unaffected by deformation or heat before, according to the the University of Warwick, where the research was done. The subjects were ‘centrosymmetric’ semiconductors. niobium-doped strontium titanium oxide crystals niobium-doped titanium dioxide crystals niobium-doped barium strontium titanium oxide (BSTO) ceramics silicon “Generally, ...

Terahertz video at 6frame/s and with 32 x 32 pixels has been achieved by a team led by Professor Emma Pickwell-MacPherson from the University of Warwick, working with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Their terahertz camera reached 100 times faster acquisition than the previous state-of-the-art without adding any significant costs to the system or sacrificing the sub-picosecond temporal resolution needed ...

Now in its fourth year, the EW BrightSparks programme sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2020, we highlight Jordan Albutt, a Manufacturing Leadership Engineering Degree Apprentice at Rolls-Royce and University of Warwick. Achievement His nominator told ...