What caught your eye this week? (Philips recall, Perovskite solar cells, Quantum satellite)
David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was a potentially catastrophic threat to Philips.
Steve Bush, technology editor
Perovskite solar cells might well have grown in efficiency faster than any other form of solar cell, but they are still far from the market as they are destroyed from without by the atmosphere and from within by their own layers corroding one another. Now Princeton and Linköping universities have got a grip on the latter, with inter-layer barriers that dramatically slow that self-destructive tendency.
Alun Williams, Web editor
Eutelsat’s Ku band satellite, dubbed Quantum, which has begun commercial service. It’s the first European software-defined satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space, with its electronically splittable, steerable and shapeable beams.
Offsite links
- Google may be starting the rollout of Android 13, to its own Pixel devices at first, but how many phones will it reach before Android 14 sees the light of day?
- Nordic Semiconductor announces its first Wi-Fi chip, the dual-band Wi-Fi 6 nRF7002. Apparently, it follows Nordic’s 2020 acquisition of the development team, core Wi-Fi expertise, and Wi-Fi IP tech assets of Imagination Technologies Group.
- Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arriving at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a nearly 10-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building.
