University Electronics

Research at a number of universities – Sheffield, Southampton and Crete – is aiming to develop a new hybrid energy transfer system that mimics the processes responsible for photosynthesis. This energy transfer, writes Richard Wilson, is known as Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), a radiationless transmission of energy that occurs on the nanometer scale from a donor molecule to an acceptor ...

A Professor of Cryptology in the Department of Computer Science at Bristol University has won an award from IBM Research. A paper on “Fully Homomorphic Encryption” by Bristol’s Professor Nigel Smart is the winner of the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, the university highlights. The citation for the paper says: This paper represents a large step forward in the ...

A new type of light sensor could support medical and security imaging, and also work with low cost cameras. This is the promise of new research at Surrey University.  The new ‘multispectral’ light sensor detects the full spectrum of light, says the university, from ultra-violet (UV) to visible and near infrared light. One application could be non-invasive medical procedures, such as ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have created a new material, related to graphene, which has the potential to improve transistors, writes David Manners.

Samsung’s head of graphene research will present the company’s pioneering research into synthesis of large area graphene at a major conference in Manchester in June. Seungmin Cho, principal research engineer and group leader at Samsung will present the progress his team is making in developing flexible touch screens at the upcoming Graphene Supply, Application & Commercialisation 2014, which takes place ...

A cross-disciplinary team at Glasgow University has discovered a novel, electronically-controlled method of generating dynamic cell patterns using a portable device based on acoustic force for spatial manipulation of cells and particles. The research – published by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Lab on Chip – shows that cell patterning using a Heptagon Acoustic Tweezer may soon be in ...

An interesting one, involving healthcare and technology. Sheffield University is highlighting a “virtual physiological human” project, which is the work of its Insigneo Institute. This is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals with the objective of creating an “in silico” (computer simulated) replica of the human body. The reason? It will enable the virtual testing ...

Oxford University is highlighting its work in the realm of optical wireless communications. See Ultra-high Bandwidth – Isis Project No 9453 Identifying a shortage of licensed frequencies in existing radio frequency (RF) wireless networks, it’s attempting to address what it describes as a ‘spectrum crunch’, from ever increasing demand for data delivered over the mobile Internet. The answer? ‘Li-Fi’ – ...

The University of Manchester has highlighted the acquisition, by Versarien, of the majority of its graphene subsidiary 2-DTech Ltd.

Here’s an interesting one. How Smart is a city, in terms of the mobile comms and technologies available? And how would you measure it, exactly. Well, university experts are helping to build a metric for ranking mobile-connected smart cities – Sheffield University has been working with GSMA, the association of mobile operators, to better document what kind of communication technologies are ...