electronics

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Head-Up Display (HUD) projects key driving information onto a small area of the windscreen.

Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted by Jaguar Land Rover

26 Nov 2015

A ‘head-up’ display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar...

A high performance semiconducting polymer with an amorphous structure

Clearing a path for electrons in polymers: closing in on the speed limits

05 Nov 2014

A new class of low-cost polymer materials, which can carry electric charge with almost no losses despite their seemingly random structure, could lead...

The atomic building site

19 Jun 2014

The ability to design, control and build new materials at the level of individual atoms could open up a whole new world of electronic devices.

Data storage at CERN, Geneva. Superconducting spintronics could enable such facilities to process unprecedented amounts of data with a high level of energy-efficiency.

Superconducting spintronics pave way for next-generation computing

15 Jan 2014

A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in...

Left: The prototype laser detection device, which can be used to protect goods against counterfeiting. Right: Printed electronics enable flexible, digital displays which can be bent without breaking., Credit: Nick Saffell

Anti-fraud lasers and inks for transparent electronics

05 Nov 2013

Two prototypes – a detection device which users lasers to fight fraud, and a piano which demonstrates the potential of printed electronics – have...

Graphene is a one-atom thick layer of carbon atoms. Producing high-quality single layers in a manner compatible with industrial processes is just one of the challenges that researchers will be trying to surmount. The image shows a printed graphene device.

Graphene: Taking the wonder-stuff from dream to reality

24 Jan 2013

A centre for research on graphene, a material which has the potential to revolutionise numerous industries, ranging from healthcare to electronics...

The next generation of plastic electronics

15 Jan 2013

A new generation of cheap lightweight plastic electronic technology that does not require silicon, but which is optically transparent and can be...

Detail from a hybrid three-dimensional heterostructure consisting of graphene, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide in two dimensional layers.

Changing our material future, layer by layer

20 Dec 2012

Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two...

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

14 Mar 2012

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite...