Category: Technology
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Smart Cities
Smart Cities A Smart City is a blending of current and emerging technologies being employed to allow a city to better manage its assets and deliver value to its residents. It is an emerging concept and still very much in exploration. The 2 core technology areas being investigated as the primary value creators are ICT (Information and Communications Technology)…
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Quantum Mechanics Visualised
Quantum Mechanics By definition, Quantum Mechanics acts at such tiny dimensions below what we can visualise. And the Uncertainty Principle by Werner Heisenberg makes it clear that we can’t know where things are and how much energy they have at the same time. So how can we visualise any of this except as a simulation? Check this…
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Nanosheets Supercede Nanowires for Next Generation Transistors
Nanosheets Enable 5nm Transistor Technology It was less than a year ago that we covered Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor which looked at the use of Nanowires to create transistors and improve on FinFET technology which had become the primary transistor construction technology for complex semiconductors. This was using 8nm Nanowires and was expected to be the…
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Worlds Thinnest Hologram
Holograms Holograms are the product of Holography. This sounds rather self referencing. You can think of this as recording light the way you record sound. So you can have monophonic sound or full surround sound. A 3D Hologram allows you to see the original object from different directions as you move around it even though…
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Light at Work
Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. So this post is a brief survey of some recent advances in our understanding of…
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Printed Electronics Overview
Printed Electronics Way back in 2011 we looked at the state of Printed Electronics and concluded this was a rapidly emerging area of Technology and had been since the previous look at The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture in 2009. It has been a while so what has happened since then? This is…
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Antennas – The History
Introducing Andrew Walla This is a guest blog article from Andrew Walla who is an expert in Radio Frequency Engineering (RF), particularly focusing on small form factor Antennas. So the emphasis is on compact antennas which fits in with our recent emphasis on the Internet of Things (IoT). A couple of other caveats. Notable omissions…
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Cellular IoT Communications
LPWAN = Low Power Wide Area Network LPWAN is typically thought about as cellular data networks but that involves a contradiction since cellular and low power are inherently in conflict with each other. For instance, a standard 3G or 4G cellular modem will have a peak current draw of up to 2A during transmission and…