Design and performance of the ideal omnidirectional cloak in free space. (a) Cloak design based on the linear transformation optics. (b) Schematic diagram of the actual cloak. (c) Simulated (I, II, III) and measured (IV, V, VI) cloaking performance. Credit: Science China Press A team led by Prof. Dexin Ye and Prof. Hongsheng Chen from […]
Celebrating its inaugural year, the Awards recognise not only outstanding women who have made significant achievements, but also male allies, companies and teams who have made a positive impact throughout the electronics industry. Thank you, too, to the excellent host for the awards, the comedian and writer Eleanor Tiernan. And we hope the evening was […]
Elon Musk says X will appeal against an Australian injunction forcing it to take down videos of a church stabbing in Sydney. Tech bad boy Elon Musk on Tuesday vowed to challenge demands that his social media platform X take down videos of a recent Sydney church stabbing. Australia’s Federal Court on Monday gave the […]
Credit: AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitter’s advertising business when she started in 2013. Now, she’s vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a content moderation service provider […]
Credit: M. Soheil Shamaee, S. Fathi Hafshejani, Z. Saeidian The step size, often referred to as the learning rate, plays a pivotal role in optimizing the efficiency of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. In recent times, multiple step size strategies have emerged for enhancing SGD performance. However, a significant challenge associated with these step […]
Scientists from Institute of Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Academy of Sciences developed new Solid-state Ionic Thermoelectric Generators. Credit: Schematic diagram of ionic thermoelectric conversion device prepared by Institute of Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China The electrode sheet of a thermoelectric device consists of ionic hydrogel, which is sandwiched between the electrodes to form, and […]
April 23, 2024 — Malaysia recently announced that it will build the largest integrated circuit design park in Southeast Asia and will provide a number of incentives such as tax cuts, subsidies and free work visas to attract global technology companies and investors. The Malaysian government plans to build the country into a digital industry […]
April 23, 2024 — Silicon Labs recently announced their new xG22E family of Wireless SoCs, Silicon Labs’ first-ever family designed to operate within the ultra-low power envelope required for battery-free, energy harvesting applications. The new family consists of the BG22E, MG22E, and FG22E. As Silicon Labs’ most energy-efficient SoCs to date, all three SoCs will enable IoT device makers to build […]
April 23, 2024 — ROHM and STMicroelectronics recently announced the expansion of the existing multi-year, long-term 150mm silicon carbide (SiC) substrate wafers supply agreement with SiCrystal, a ROHM group company. The new multi-year agreement governs the supply of larger volumes of SiC substrate wafers manufactured in Nuremberg, Germany, for a minimum expected value of $230 […]