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Bluetooth allows electronic devices to communicate over short distances and is used by billions of devices worldwide. Jaap Haartsen recalls the developments that led to the establishment of the Bluetooth wireless technology standard.
Kirsten Moselund and Rihito Kuroda, publicity chairs of the 2018 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, tell Nature Electronics about the past, present and future of the meeting, which takes place in San Francisco in December.
Spintronic devices, which exploit the spin of electrons for information processing and storage, are a key emerging technology in electronics. Supriyo Datta explains how emulating optical phenomena inspired his prediction of the spin transistor.
The spanning tree protocol is a key component of today’s Ethernet. Radia Perlman, inventor of the underlying algorithm, recounts how it was first developed.