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Tiny electrical vortexes bridge gap between ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials

“Ferromagnetic materials have a self-generating magnetic field, ferroelectric materials generate their own electrical field. Although electric and magnetic fields are related, physics tells us that they are very different classes of material. Now the discovery by University of Warwick-led scientists …

Tiny, reusable sensing chip could lead to new point-of-care medical tests

“The key to its success? ‘Nanopatch antennas’ made with liquid metal that trap light to identify biological and chemical molecules The proliferation of point-of-care testing, from at-home blood glucose meters to COVID-19 rapid tests, is accelerating and improving medical …

Toshiba Launches Hall Sensorless Sine-wave Drive Three-phase Brushless DC Motor Control Pre-driver IC that Helps to Reduce Vibration and Noise

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched a three-phase brushless DC motor control pre-driver IC, “TC78B011FTG,” and started volume shipments today. The product is for high-speed motors, including those used in server fans and blowers, and in the suction …

Toshiba Releases New MOSFET Gate Driver IC that Will Help to Reduce Device Footprints

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has released “TCK421G” for 20V power lines as the first product in its new “TCK42xG Series” of MOSFET gate driver ICs. Devices in the series are dedicated to gate voltage control of an external …

Triangulum - 3D Printed 3-Hand Clock

“Hey! So this is a project I started April 8 2021, and since then, it has changed quite a bit. The basic idea was to make a clock shaped like a triangle. This morphed into a 3-hand clock with a …

Using the universe’s coldest material to measure the world’s tiniest magnetic fields

“Using atoms only a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a team of researchers from ICFO and Aalto University have detected magnetic signals undetectable by any other existing sensor technology. Magnetometers measure the direction, strength or relative changes …

With a Little Help, New Optical Material Assembles Itself

“Breakthrough could enable large-scale manufacturing of nanomaterials for industry A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has demonstrated tiny concentric nanocircles that self-assemble into an optical material with precision and efficiency. Their work overcomes a longstanding …

1,000-cycle lithium-sulfur battery could quintuple electric vehicle ranges

“A new biologically inspired battery membrane has enabled a battery with five times the capacity of the industry-standard lithium ion design to run for the thousand-plus cycles needed to power an electric car. A network of aramid nanofibers, recycled from …

2D material in three dimensions

“How do you integrate as much as possible of the 2D material graphene into a limited space? By producing it not on a flat surface, but on a 3D nanostructure. The carbon material graphene has no well-defined thickness, it merely …

A new method for quantum computing

“Physicists from the University of Amsterdam have proposed a new architecture for a scalable quantum computer. Making use of the collective motion of the constituent particles, they were able to construct new building blocks for quantum computing that pose fewer …