Amber Solutions, the young Silicon Valley company that is making the digital control of electricity in solid-state architecture a commercial reality, today announced that its 2020 series B funding round raised more than $8.5 million from new and existing investors, following a successful year of secured patents, partner discussions and multiple industry award wins.
STMicroelectronics Powers Creative NFC Applications with Dynamic Message Content and Anti-Tamper in New Type-5 Tags
Uniquely combining NFC Type-5 properties with augmented NDEF (NFC Data Exchange Format) and tamper detection, STMicroelectronics’ST25TV512C and ST25TV02KC tags let developers leverage NFC contactless communication in new and imaginative ways for applications in consumer engagement, brand recognition, supply-chain management, and access control.
Titanium Oxide Nanotubes Facilitate Low-Cost Laser-Assisted Photoporation
A research team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a nanosecond pulse laser-assisted photoporation method using titanium-oxide nanotubes (TNTs) for highly efficient and low-cost intracellular delivery.
indie Semiconductor Appoints David J. Aldrich to its Board of Directors
indie, an Autotech semiconductor and software innovator which is currently in the process of becoming a public company through a planned merger with Thunder Bridge Acquisition II.
Industry R&D Spending to Rise 4% After Hitting Record in 2020
Intel stays on top of research and development ranking, but its share of total industry R&D expenditures dipped after its spending decreased 4% in 2020. AMD moved into the R&D top 10, says new report.
Semtech and Meshed Leverage the LoRaWAN Protocol to Monitor City Public Health
Meshed’s nCounter solution provides insight into the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 on local communities.
SUTD Research Team Extends 4D Printing to Nanophotonics
The newly developed shape memory polymer resist which allows for high-resolution 4D printing, promises a platform for information hiding for optical anti-counterfeiting and tunable photonic devices.
Optical Sensor Market is Projected to Reach $30 Billion by 2026
According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, Optical sensor market are broadly utilized in consumer electronic devices for the detection of events, changes, or input signals and pass the information to other components.
Maskless Lithography Microfabrication for High Volume Production
New Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) allow a single light source to be parallelized into thousands or millions of smaller light beams that can be used to write simultaneously. With this new capability, machines with higher throughput can expose the entire wafer surface in a reasonable amount of time.
