Electronics Today

EXECUTIVE FORUM
I V Sarma is new Director (R&D) at BEL
Sunil Mittal gets Global Vision award
Neelam Dhawan is MD of HP India
Madhav Joshi, President, AUSPI
Madhusudan Atre is President, Applied Materials India
Robert T. DeVincenzi, new CEO of LaserCard Corp.

TRENDS
Sub-femtosecond ‘radar gun’ tracks photonic speeders
Student makes polarised LED a reality
Magnetic memory wires
CNTs made into conductive, flexible ‘Stained Glass’
Active matrix display, powered by nm nanowires
Nanobattery aims to defeat self-discharge
Scientists gauge quantum states for chip cooling, settling
Digital pet as watchdog
A fine line between superconductor and superinsulator
Harnessing the power of terahertz radiation
Clumps make better solar cellsr

TECHMARCH
Advances in atomic level chip manufacturing and current status

SPECIAL REPORT
Wireless charging - trends and advancements

SPECIAL ARTICLE
Terahertz radiation applications: a beginning

TECHNEWS
Practical, scalable quantum logic gate demonstrated
Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode
New transistor architectures boost polysilicon substrates,
thick-oxide gates
CMOS CHO technology eliminates quartz crystals
Groups to discuss GHz spectrum conflict 58
6Gbps SAS interoperability demonstrated 58
Photonic-crystal mystery solved
World-record of solar cell efficiency achieved
Industry group to define new DRAM interface spec
Thin film encapsulation technology for flexible OLED displays
ST develops certified reference design flow
Digital media server platform developed by three companies
TSMC and OmniVision develop sensor technology
Data transfer with light instead of radio waves

Events
COMPONEX NEPCON Chennai-India 2008         
thumps the city
       

CORPORATE WINDOW
Hughes to set up VSAT hub for Indian Railways
Juniper plans to invest & zoom more
Tata Comm to buy 50% in Beijing firm
NXP’s fastest digital cellular modem
TI acquires Innovative Design Solutions

PRODUCT REVIEW
Tektronix waveform monitors, now support 3Gbit/s SDI
Scientific's new LCR meter
New programmable power supply
RF network analyser creates new standard

Corporate briefings
MindTree to invest Rs. 1 billion in Chennai centre
Gemini Comm buys Veeras Infotek
Wipro buys out Motorola stake
Moser Baer-TN pact for PV unit
MRO-Tek enables seamless link
Nokia shifts to India’s Sasken for R&D operations
R-Com launches coin box PCO
ST leaves out Infineon in wireless venture
Tata Comm in pact with Etisalat
Global award for NREGS software
Freescale buys SigmaTel
Hughes launches broadband product
Patni, Schindler tie up
Virgin Atlantic, TCS renew contract
Sony India investing Rs 2 billion in marketing
VLSI test lab ARM opens in Bangalore
Moschip ties up with Alliances
Thomson Asia to set up R&D centre in Bangalore
Mumbai realty co signs pact with Malaysian
firm for cybercity

SMARTCARDS TODAY

RBI announces guidelines for secure mobile
transactions in India 29
Mobile financial service trasactions to touch 41.5 billion 30
ABN AMRO partners with PayMate
e-Stamping: SHCIL in talks with States
Health smart cards for mothers
India to issue biometric passports starting from next year 34
Wireless subscriber base in India is now 269.30 million 34
Multi-purpose identity cards for Pune
Linkwell PoS terminals for banks
Smart cards for BPL families to avail
National Health Insurance Scheme
Thales’ advanced passenger info system for Delhi Metro
F&S predicts strong biometrics growth in FIs
Prepaid cards for unbanked consumers in the transit industry
— SCA white paper
Sagem Morpho wins Biometric ID Technology Award
Bartronics to make fish medicine distribution easier
Global biometrics market to reach $7.1b
                               

RFID Briefings

New research predicts innovative RFID readers
RFID solution for IT asset tracking
RFID market to hit $1.4b in China: ABI
Huge RF-based document management facility
RFID chips to check LPG diversion
RFID for serialised shipment container tracking
RFID reduces jewellery inventory time from 3 hours to 10 minutes
Miniature RFID laundry transponder from Sokymat
SCM Microsystems to focus on tactless market
Canada Launches Forum On Impact Of Global Move To RFID-Based Business Practices
Revolutionary Textile Identification Package

RFID Products

Cost-efficient paper thin RFID tags for high volume apps
AdvanIDe RFID range of products
RF-LoopTag® — transponder processing machine
RFID apps from LTS solutions
Digant Technologies OEM RFID Read/Write modules
Fully Integrated NFC System-on-Chip from ST
RFID expertise from SCORE
Smartrac RFID apps for transport and logistics
BookMark solution from BASE Systems
Secure RFID: CryptoRF from Atmel Corp.
Infineon my-d proximity -- SLE 55Rxx
Rapidradio library management solutions
Datacon's 8800 Fc smart line
ARYGON desktop reader ADRA 13,56MHz

Smart Products
Cross Match livescan finger and palm print system
Biometric access control systems from Pratibha
PYRAL range of products for smart cards industry
NorDig-compliant system-level STB solution from NXP
The most ingenious card printer of its generation
Full service offering from Kare Corporation
Sagem MorphoAccessTM 500 series
Lumidigm venus series biometric fingerprint sensors
Secure documents and systems from American Banknote Corp.
Maze cards range of solutions
Automatic passport eCover production system
BIOsmart access and time attendance system from Smart-I
Cardel lamination and consumables
SAVIOR 9000 series SCOSTA standards based Reader
Javelin® J430i dual-sided colour card printer from Shreenath
Gobbler laminators from Tikmany Telesystems
Biometrics solutions from Wyse
Feitian family of smart security solutions
Aura papers meteor DP40 Pro
Biometric Solutions from Neurotechnologija
ePOS91 transaction terminal from VISIONTEK
Printing solutions from Creed Engineers

Smart Briefings
Malaysian debit card follows Islamic law
Bell ID's card uses GlobalPlatform specs
Beijing subway opts AFC system
Bihar starts issuing smart card driving licences
Biometric control on Pakistan-Afghanistan border
Kolkata metro to go paperless from July
LaserCard Corp. get, order for $1.6 million VRS in India
Ration cards in Pune, Mumbai to go biometric
Visa Europe contract to Aconite for prepaid card solution
Siemens combines ID management and biometrics units
India’s Yes Bank teams with Obopay for m-payments
Eurpean Union funds fingerprint ID security project
Lithuanian supplier wins order from India’s ICICI
US employment verification system to incorporate biometrics
Route1 Inc. concludes agreement with Giesecke & Devrient