Thousands of jobs have been secured for two decades following the award of a £3.7bn contract to BAE Systems for three Type 26 Global Combat Ships. The new warships will be the first of eight vessels to replace specialist submarine-hunting Type 23 frigates that are currently in service. Shipbuilding yards on the Clyde will be…

Smart windows can save up to 40 per cent in an average building’s energy costs but their power requirements make them relatively complicated to install in existing buildings. Now, researchers at Princeton University have developed a self-powered smart window that features solar cells that selectively absorb near-ultraviolet (near-UV) light, so the new windows are completely…

Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that could rival the effectiveness of existing wearable electronic devices that use body heat as an energy source.   In the proof-of-concept study from North Carolina State University (NC State), researchers acknowledge that the performance and efficiency of flexible devices is inferior to rigid devices, which are…

  A method for identifying molecules that are markers for diseases could lead to miniaturised wearable health monitoring devices   A novel approach to lab-on-a-chip diagnostics could lead to health monitoring devices small enough to be worn like a smartwatch, according to researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The technique, a form of bioassay…

Researchers have developed a battery-free pacemaker that can be implanted directly into a patient’s heart, an advance that could mitigate the need for follow-up surgery. The wireless, battery-free pacemaker is being introduced this week by researchers from Rice University, Texas and colleagues at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) at IEEE’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in…

The image shows just three, of the this ‘total build’ order that Roscan has recently completed. We supplied the bespoke boxes, the Perspex display panels and all printing, along with building the PCB’s and coils. Furthermore more, all internal cabling was also manufactured at our ISO 9001 approved Wokingham facility where the whole assembly took…

“There’s a great deal of interest in being able to control cell behaviour in relation to semiconductors – that’s the underlying idea behind bioelectronics,” said Albena Ivanisevic, a professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University (NC State) and corresponding author of the study. “Our work here effectively adds another tool to…

Analog Devices, Inc., which recently acquired Linear Technology Corporation, has announced the LTC5553, a double balanced mixer providing best-in-class matched bandwidth capability from 3GHz to 20GHz. The mixer can be used either as an up- or downconverter. In addition, the LTC5553 delivers outstanding linearity of 23.9dBm IIP3 at 14GHz, and 21.5dBm at 17GHz. The device…

Oxfordshire firm P2i has so far applied its hydrophobic nano-coating to over 175 million electronic devices worldwide. Jason Ford reports.  It won’t have escaped your notice that smartphones are being marketed with features that have more to do with lifestyle than telephony. Take the recent UK TV ad campaign for the Samsung Galaxy S7, which…

A robot used to position electrodes in human brains is working in Renishaw’s new Healthcare Centre of Excellence in Miskin, South Wales The factory floor and the operating theatre may seem worlds apart but, in reality, these two outwardly different environments face many common challenges. Both are time-pressured, often high-volume environments that rely on exacting precision, tight…