CONTENTS APRIL 2020
Dear readers,
Confinement has become the norm for most of Europeans and restrictions are taking
place all over the world, giving a devastating blow to many industries and livelihoods
yet promising casualty mitigation.
The extreme economical context is calling for societal changes. The urgency to
find medical and welfare solutions is accelerating research, unleashing new funds,
open-source projects are flourishing and companies of all sizes are rushing to put
remote work strategies into place and re-organize their workforce with new priorities.
These changes will be long lasting, and hopefully for the better.
Our April edition looks at some of the latest edge hardware and AI firmware solutions,
some of which may find direct use in deciphering the vast amounts of data
put to contribution by epidemiologists to predict the progression of the virus and
possibly decide on the best confinement strategies.
Other features covered in eeNews Europe’s April edition include Optoelectronics,
Power Supplies and Batteries.
Until confinement restrictions become a thing of the past, stay safe, read and
educate yourself. Feel free to share your academic and business news with us.
Julien Happich
Editor in Chief
www.eenewseurope.com
NewsApril 2020
electronics europe News
OptiMOS™ Source-Down
a new era in MOSFET performance
european
business press
4 - 49: OPINION
Uncommon Market:
Food system at risk of
crash?
Last Word:
Haptics is ready for
standardization
6 - 25: NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Photonic platform delivers
compact beam steering
Researchers led by Columbia
Engineering Professor
Michal Lipson have developed
a low-power beam
steering platform that is
a non-mechanical, robust, and scalable approach to
beam steering.
26 - 33: POWER SUPPLIES & BATTERIES
Thin transparent nanogenerator
is stretchable
Researchers have
devised a stretchable triboelectric
nanogenerator
that leverages the unique
properties of a layer of
carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
within a transparent elastomer matrix, capable of
delivering up to 8W/m2.
34 - 43: EDGE COMPUTING & AI
Industry 4.0: edge
computing power is key
Edge computing used in
conjunction with cloud
computing – that is,
processing data locally
then sending it to the
cloud – is becoming an
increasingly indispensable
element of the burgeoning Industry 4.0 concept.
44 - 47: OPTOELECTRONICS
Event-camera equipped drones get milliseconds
reaction times
Leveraging so-called
event cameras
with a proprietary
moving-obstacle
detection algorithm,
researchers have
reduced a drone‘s
reaction time from
tens of milliseconds
to only 3.5 milliseconds in order to detect and avoid
fast-moving objects.
48: DISTRIBUTION CORNER
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