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The University of Manchester develops an electroluminescent thread that can be woven and knitted into cloth to form emissive garments, using coating of dielectric and phosphor layers
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Plastic solar cells project gets £5m government funding
The University of Cambridge and The Technology Partnership are to develop plastic solar cells in a project sponsored with £5m by the Government-funded Carbon Trust
Transistor testing costs are a ‘serious’ problem
The cost of testing a transistor will approach and may exceed the cost of manufacturing it, Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at the University of Southampton, has warned
Cambridge scientists find reason for dim green LEDs
Researchers at the University of Cambridge may have found the mechanism that makes green LEDs less efficient that other colours, but can’t reveal details
Holey fibre squares up to cut energy loss in displays
Researchers at the University of Southampton have used a novel holey fibre and a laser to drill square holes for display manufacturer Exitech
A rat’s tale: scientists study whiskers
R4513 is a rat pioneer. Thanks in part to R4513, researchers from two UK universities should this summer complete a robot rodent that uses whiskers to collect information about its environment. Over the last 30 months the Whiskerbot project has been developing models of how the rat uses its whiskers, how the information is interpreted at the follicle, and how ...
Fast optical modulator adapted to silicon process
US researchers have developed a high-speed optical modulator that can be integrated with existing silicon process technology
Analogue IC design – heading for a crisis?
Dr Peter Wilson from the University of Southampton forecasts a bleak future for analogue design in the UK and Europe, unless funding can be found for our universities
Power source scavenges energy
University of Southampton spins out firm to make power sources which scavenge vibrational energy from the environment
Blue LED creator gets £103m
EW News 11/02/2004 – Blue LED creator gets £103mBlue LED creator gets £103m Richard Ball Blue LED and laser diode inventor Shuji Nakamura has been awarded £103m by a Japanese court, recognising his work at Nichia. Nakamura sued Nichia in 2001, claiming he should benefit from his work and patents on blue LEDs. Last year he lost part of the ...
