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An old steelworks in Rottherham is being turned into a centre for science and technology to provide an insight into the age of steelmaking and a look at the natural world.

Bath-based optical fibre developer Blazephotonics has begun supplying samples of its innovative hollow core photonic crystal fibre (PCF) to customers. The company is also looking to fill vacancies for two […]

Automated combinatorial chemistry techniques traditionally used for drug discovery are being applied by Siemens to develop phosphors for white LEDs. The approach involves distributing finely-controlled mixtures of candidate materials in […]

Harry Yeates A low-cost technique for generating a secure digital ID code from an analogue source has been developed by the Generics Group, the Cambridge technology firm. The system uses […]

The body which administers national facilities for use by UK universities has today (Wednesday) published a consultation paper on its future and is inviting comments from interested parties. On April […]

Car manufacturers are eager to get the advantages of replacing 12V electrical systems with 42V, but the route is littered with obstacles, and it could be up to eight years […]

Roke Manor Research is developing a system for high-speed breast cancer screening using ultra wideband (UWB) microwave radio techniques. Combining 3D images generated using UWB with existing X-ray mammograms and […]

Harry Yeates Efforts to save optoelectronic component start-up Essient Photonics are being complicated by issues surrounding the ownership of its intellectual property (IP). Essient went bust at the beginning of […]

Revenues at Zarlink Semiconductor grew by 13 per cent from Q3 to Q4 of 2002, to $53m, around $1m higher than in the same period last year. The company reported […]

Westminster city council says it will this month launch a pilot scheme to provide its workers with wireless access to the council network throughout Soho. A series of 'smart boxes' […]

Harry Yeates Disk drive manufacturer Seagate is taking advantage of the 'unique' capabilities of UK universities to gain access to blue skies research into novel magnetic materials. The company, which […]

Harry Yeates Us firm e ink has released data on the flexibility of its latest display. The active matrix design, built on a steel foil substrate, is less than 0.3mm […]

Lanergy, the powerline communications company, has gone into voluntary liquidation. It is the second UK powerline start-up to fail in recent months, following the demise of Reading firm nSine in […]

Roke Manor Research has developed a tri-band GSM/ GPRS card in a Compact Flash package and is looking for customers to take the design to a product. The firm claims […]

Harry Yeates Hampshire sensor and communications firm Roke Manor Research is delivering prototype 77GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar modules to major automotive manufacturers as the European RadarNet programme […]

Free-space optics developer QuantumBeam, one of the technology start-ups from the Generics Group in Cambridge, has gone into administration with the loss of around 20 jobs. The company was working […]

A design tool from Scottish firm Nallatech enables system engineers and programmers with little knowledge of hardware description languages (HDLs) to incorporate networks in designs for its FPGA systems, claims […]

Bus standards have cut system complexity and improved reliability in automotive electronics, says HARRY YEATES gh If you believe the hype, automotive electronics is the place to be at the […]

Electric field-induced mechanical strains of around 0.15 per cent have been demonstrated from a nano-structured sample of platinum metal by researchers in Germany and Austria. Piezoelectric behaviour of this kind […]

The Government's call for higher levels of innovation from UK universities is being answered in bucketfuls as the EPSRC pushes a series of initiatives for novel research and eight groups […]

3g mobile test firm Ubinetics is supplying Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo with mobile simulators for evaluating an experimental W-CDMA system with high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) capability. 'It's a substantial […]

Camcon Technology, the Cambridge firm developing and licensing a high-speed, low-power 'binary actuator' valve design, has received a pound sterling45,000 DTI Smart award to use its technology to reduce greenhouse […]

Harry Yeates High-performance materials that could replace existing silica glasses in optical waveguides and fibre amplifiers for telecoms networks are being developed at the University of Nottingham. The erbium-doped ultra-transparent […]

Harry Yeates Reading-based wireless LAN chip firm Synad, which is sampling a dual band chipset for client cards supporting all three IEEE 802.11 standards, is on the verge of announcing […]

Harry Yeates The challenge of managing and exploiting complex computational systems is being addressed with two funding themes by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). One initiative, backed […]

Harry Yeates Researchers in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University have demonstrated continuous wave operation of laser devices emitting at 3.5THz ( = 85µm), the longest wavelength yet shown from […]

The miniature 'fuel processor' pictured is part of a micro fuel cell system developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The device contains two […]

Harry Yeates Scottish optical storage specialist Infinite Data Storage has finalised manufacturing deals for its latest Komodo and Nexus products, and is now chasing licensees. The company hopes to officially […]

US researchers have used prions, the mis-folded protein fibres that damage brain tissue in diseases such as BSE and CJD, to grow conductive nanowires. Led by Professor Susan Lindquist at […]

US researchers have demonstrated thin-film superlattice thermoelectric devices with cooling power densities of 700W/cm2. The scientists at Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina claim their device uses 40,000 times less […]

Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University are developing electrodeposition techniques for low-cost solar cells to help take advantage of a new model explaining photovoltaic (PV) behaviour. Worldwide research into thin-film PV […]

The latest software for adding word recognition for command and control functions to high performance mobile platforms is a welcome way to put data into today's shrinking mobile devices, but […]

Half of the UK university research groups singled out last week to receive five years of guaranteed funding under a novel scheme to promote adventurous research are based in electronics […]

Southampton University researchers have applied a low-complexity method of producing the multiple colours of light used in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems applied to a highly non-linear type of fibre. […]

A novel refrigeration device that cools by rotating gadolinium (Gd) powder through a magnetic field has been built by researchers in the US. Gadolinium is a magnetocaloric material - it […]

Harry Yeates IQE, the south Wales epitaxial wafer supplier, has received orders from optical communications customers that have been silent for the past 18 months. This part of the business […]

The details of how job cuts announced earlier this month at Applied Materials will affect its UK staff will only become clear over the next six months, according to the […]

Harry Yeates A report on the success of Oxfordshire's high-tech industry has singled out the key role played by the Oxford Trust charity in catalysing the start-up culture. The Trust […]

Harry Yeates ment manager at Polatis. 'Our switch sits on top of an OEO switch, and if the traffic simply needs to go through a node without any regeneration, that […]

Analog Devices (ADI) has announced three additions to its Blackfin family of low-power programmable DSPs, and is targeting the automotive telematics market to take advantage of the longer product lifecycles. […]

Harry Yeates Researchers in Germany are developing programmable microfluidic arrays that integrate many of the features required for effective molecular computing. Molecular computers solve problems by assigning the pieces of […]

Alex Mayhew-Smith Marconi's credit rating has been cut to its lowest ever level after the firm failed to pay interest on its debt. Credit ratings firm Standard & Poor cut […]

Researchers in the US have developed a method for creating microchannels in materials in three dimensions for applications such as labs-on-chip. Current techniques etch channels into a wafer in 2D. […]

Design automation firm TransEDA has posted a net loss of pound sterling5.1m for the six months ending December 31 2002. The company's CEO Udo Muerle has also left the company […]

Harry Yeates Researchers in California are planning to replace damaged regions of the brain with a microchip. By feeding electrical inputs through a chip designed to replicate the damaged part […]