Building Smartphone Antennas That Play Nice Together

3D manufacturing can defeat the interference problem inside smart devices.article-detail aside.inlay .sb-hed, article-detail aside.inlay h3, article-detail aside.inlay .sb-list-subhead { color: #ee008c; } .article-detail aside.inlay { border-color: #ee008c; } Illustration: Mark Montgomery The problem has bedeviled designers for decades: How do you squeeze more and more antennas into smaller and smaller…

Robotic Raven Gains Altitude

Maryland student’s research advances pioneering micro air vehicle Inspired by the beauty and flying ability of birds, Leonardo da Vinci strived centuries ago to create a human-powered flapping-wing flying machine. But his designs, which da Vinci explored in his Codex on the Flight of Birds, were never developed in any…

Graphene Printing Technique "Silk Screens" Flexible Electronics

Graphene-based remote epitaxy enables inexpensive copying of gallium arsenide and gallium nitride chipsFuture high-efficiency solar cells molded to the surface of a car; ultra-small photonics chips; and low-power, long-lasting wearable devices will all require something no one’s yet been able to achieve, namely chips made from high-efficiency materials that are flexible, thin and…