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A series of European Research Council (ERC) "top up" grants worth up to €150,000 each have been awarded to 30 leading researchers across Europe. Part of the ERC's new "Proof of Concept" funding initiative, these grants are being awarded to researchers who already hold ERC grants, in order to...

European aerospace and defence group EADS and Russian Nanotechnology Corp. RUSNANO have signed a cooperative research and development agreement in the field of nanotechnology. As a first step, the partners will identify relevant patents in EADS's portfolio, which could be suited to develop new business in the Russian industry....

Container security and tracking revenues will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27 percent from $212 M in 2011 to $690 M in 2016, according to ABI Research. "With a lot of regulations and legislation being introduced in the aftermath of 9/11, expectations that this industry...

In 2010, global spending on wireless sensor networking (WSN) chipsets in industrial automation reached $2 M, with the overall market expected to grow to $8 M by 2016, according to ABI Research. Industrial automation consists of two market segments, process automation and factory automation, in which WSN in field...

By the end of 2013, LTE connections will be close to 80 million, according to ABI Research. This figure will account for connections on both FD-LTE, including that paired with W-CDMA/HSPA and CDMA 1x/EV-DO, and TD-LTE technologies globally. "We are expecting to see more LTE networks lighting up in...

Out of a total of 552 million NFC handsets shipped in 2016, 227 million will feature multiple secure elements. The increased inclusion of multiple secure elements will drive the mobile NFC market valuation above the $1 B mark. Although MNOs favor SWP SIM implementation, the market will develop with...

Industry News Microsemi Corp ., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and Zarlink Semiconductor Inc . announced that 0916753 B.C. ULC, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Microsemi, has accepted the tender of and is acquiring 123,438,737 Zarlink shares, representing approximately 96...

The cellular infrastructure equipment is subject to intense pricing and size pressures. Recently, a Rubik's Cube size base station has been demonstrated. 1 Both cost and size can benefit from reducing the number of circuit elements in a function block. Low noise amplifiers (LNA), fabricated using contemporary semiconductor technologies,...

Due to the explosive growth of various wireless communication services, today's microwave communication systems often require multi-band operations. For example, global systems for mobile communications (GSM) operate at both 900 and 1800 MHz, IEEE 802.11a and IEEE 802.11b wireless local area networks (WLAN) products operate in the unlicensed industrial,...

Cavity perturbation techniques 1,2 have been widely used for the measurement of dielectric properties at microwave frequencies. The fundamental concept of this technique is that the presence of a small volume of dielectric sample in the resonant cavity will not significantly perturb the electromagnetic field around the loaded sample...