Australian rat-robot hybrid paints pictures
News It has collaborated with the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech in the US, which recently hooked a few thousand rat neurons to a multi-electrode array to create a 'Hybrot' -- so named because it is a hybrid of living and electronic...
[July 10, 2003, 9:50]
Air-based battery promises 10 times the power
News The new idea the researchers are examining is to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in today's rechargeable lithium batteries with a porous carbon electrode. A new type of air-fuelled battery being studied could provide up to 10 times the...
[May 21, 2009, 11:45]
Researchers claim lithium-ion battery breakthrough
News For example, researchers from the University of St Andrews are developing an air-based battery that replaces a lithium cobalt oxide electrode with a porous carbon electrode, allowing lithium ions in the battery to react with oxygen molecules in...
[November 2, 2009, 15:49]
Inside Intel's Penryn review
Reviews This has two major differences to existing transistors; the gate — the electrode that contains the switching voltage — is made from as-yet-undisclosed metal alloys, while the gate insulator, which isolates the switching voltage from the switched...
[November 12, 2007, 7:24]
Low-Power Humidity Sensor for RFID Applications
White Papers The sensor consists of a glass chip substrate with a sub-micron interdigitated gold electrode structure covered with a humidity sensitive polyimide layer. Wireless sensors incorporated in RFID systems are important in several industrial, consumer...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
BodyTechnic: New funding for brain implants
News The implants, hoped to one day allow paralysis victims to operate artificial limbs, are made of cone shaped glass and contain an electrode that picks up impulses from the nerve endings. Before they are implanted, the cones are coated with chemicals...
[December 3, 1998, 11:57]
NEC develops ultra-thin battery for mobile
News NEC says that the organic radical polymer electrode reaction is extremely fast and the supporting salts migrate through gel state polymer very smoothly. NEC has developed an ultra-thin, flexible, rechargeable battery capable of re-charging in just...
[December 9, 2005, 15:50]
Wireless power puts new gloss on mat
News When a compatible device is placed on the mat, chips in the mat and the device negotiate power requirements and electrode configuration and the mat switches the right voltage to the right connection. A wireless power technology that recharges...
[October 3, 2002, 16:13]
Sweet-toothed bugs generate electricity
News In their natural habitat of Virginia bay sediment, the bacteria pass on the electrons to iron compounds, but in the lab the bacteria have been persuaded to donate them to an electrode as an electric current.
[September 8, 2003, 16:35]
Handel by nanotube
Blog One end is anchored in an electrode that connects to the outside world; the other sits in free air and holds an electrical charge. If you want to know where the big news in fundamental electronics will be, I can tell you.
[November 1, 2007, 17:22]
Smart chips get under our skin Pt II
News Each implant, made of cone-shaped glass, contained an electrode to pick up impulses from nerve endings. Within 50 years, downloading thoughts and emotions will be commonplace, Cochrane has famously predicted.
[January 23, 2001, 14:09]
Nano-refrigeration firm takes a Cool look at wafers
News Conformality is achieved by calving the two electrodes from a single mother electrode. Cool Chips, a company that wants to bring refrigeration into the nanotechnology era, has opened a prototype manufacturing facility, a crucial step in the long...
[April 19, 2004, 14:00]
Intel's high-powered engineers create low-power chips
News The gate - the electrode on a transistor that accepts the signal that turns it on or off - is 35nm wide, and is separated from the rest of the component by an insulating layer only five atoms wide. One of Intel's boldest commitments at this year's...
[August 26, 2005, 12:55]
Organic robot mixes rat brain with silicon
News By using multi-electrode arrays as a two-way interface to cultured mammalian cortical networks, we have given these networks an artificial body with which to behave. A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created a new kind of...
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
Start-up looks to extend battery life
News ZPower said it has addressed shape-change problems with its zinc anode, a composite polymer electrode that inhibits both shape change and the growth of dendrites, a problem for silver-zinc batteries as well as other battery technologies.
[October 9, 2008, 13:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Within about five minutes of this, you know not nor care whether it's you, Ivan Tuhackualotski, the Nigerian National Lotto Board or the King of Siam behind the boxes — you're clicking on OK like a laboratory pigeon pecking the button for the...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
