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Imec demoes full colour OLEDs

Imec demoes full-colour OLEDs

Imec and Fujifilm have demonstrated full-colour OLEDs by using their jointly-developed photoresist technology for organic semiconductors, a technology that enables submicron patterning. This paves the way to producing high-resolution and large organic electroluminescent (EL) displays and establishing cost-competitive manufacturing methods. Organic EL displays can be made thin and flexible with excellent response time and contrast ratio.Products require organic […]

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FTDI Chip adds EVE Screen Designer

FTDI Chip adds EVE Screen Designer

Bringing more comprehensive support to its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) product offering, FTDI Chip introduces EVE Screen Designer – which is available to download for free. Suitable for use with Windows 7 and above, the development suite enables the creation of advanced human machine interfaces (HMIs), via EVE’s  object-oriented approach, without any understanding of EVE

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Door Status Monitor using the ESP8266

Door Status Monitor using the ESP8266

In this project you’re going to monitor the status of a door using an ESP8266. The goal of this project is to show the endless possibilities that this $4 WiFi module offers when integrates with a free platform that I’m about to show you. Before continue reading this project, please complete the following tutorials or use them as a reference: How to

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Quantum Dots Boost Solar Cells

Quantum Dots Boost Solar Cells

Research team showing off their quantum-dot doped nanomaterial (back to front: Chang-Yong Nam and Mircea Cotlet of Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials with Stony Brook University graduate students Prahlad Routh and Jia-Shiang Chen). (Source: Brookhaven) “Our particular 2-D material system (SnS2) [tin disulfide] is similar to Si [silicon], in that it has an indirect

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How to Select a Resistor

How to Select a Resistor

When I was working on the next version of Common Parts Library, I realized that it would be helpful to explain why you might pick one type of passive component over another. We started off by writing “How to Select a Capacitor” last month, and are following it up with a close look at resistors

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Review Teardown of a cheap GPS Jammer

Review & Teardown of a cheap GPS Jammer

Generally, “jammers” — which are also commonly called signal blockers, GPS jammers, cell phone jammers, wifi jammers, etc. are radio frequency transmitters that are designed to block, jam, or otherwise interfere with radio communications. A jammer can block radio communications on devices that operates on a given radio frequencies within its range (i.e., within a

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AMD unveils Carrizo its 6th generation x86 CPU GPU

AMD unveils Carrizo its 6th generation x86 CPU + GPU

AMD has formerly announced the single-chip x86 CPU + GPU that was codenamed Carrizo. With up to four ‘Excavator’ CPUs and eight ‘GCN’ GPUs, it is aimed at notebook computers. AMD brands its chips that combine graphics and control processors ‘Accelerated Processing Units’ (APUs). Through close coupling through shared memory, the cores can share processing

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