Electronics Letters: volume 46 issue 2

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Touching a nerve

A new method to guide and control microsurgical tools using optical coherence tomography (OCT) is being developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the US Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Also in this issue

• Interview with Sriram Srinivasan, Philips Research Laboratories

  Dr Sriram Srinivasan, Senior Scientist in the Digital Signal Processing Group at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, tells us more about his research into speech enhancement to improve the quality of our communications.

  
  

• Switching off

  RF MEMS switches reach unprecedented operating frequencies.

  
  

• It's all in the eyes

  Researchers in Hanyang University, Korea, have developed a new technique which represents a step forward in facial recognition.

  
  

• Minimising resistance

  Researchers from the University of California have tackled the difficulty of creating low resistance ohmic contacts in the use of n-type GaN materials in high-efficiency optoelectronic devices.

  
  

• Longer lifetime LEDs

  Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US and Samsung LED in Korea have analysed the reverse leakage characteristics of GaInN/GaN multiple quantum well LEDs using a tunnelling current model.

  
  

• Solar boost

  The output of commercial single-crystalline silicon solar cells can be boosted by the use of a thin plastic concentrator developed by researchers at Chang Gung University in Taiwan.

  
  

• Supratransmission

  Designing electronic circuits that mimic the behaviour of natural systems is of great interest for the development of new processing applications. A Klein-Gordon electronic network has produced some interesting results.