Research News
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18 Jun, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has achieved a breakthrough in photovoltaic power generation by developing a low-cost tandem solar cell fabricated with transparent cuprous oxide (Cu2O) that surpasses the power conversion efficiency of today's widely used monocrystalline silicon (Si) solar cells. The cells are expected to find use in diverse new green energy applications, including on-site renewable power generation and storage systems, distributed regional power supplies, and energy aggregation to balance power supply and demand.
27 May, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), in a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University of the United States, has developed the world's first hardware implementation technique that mimics spatial perception, a fundamental function of the hippocampus, on a neuromorphic chip. This advance opens the way to miniaturizing autonomous mobile robots used in infrastructure inspection, where high spatial perception ability is required. Further advances in the research are expected to realize the mimicking and reproduction of more complex brain functions on small hardware, and the implement of highly intelligent AI technology in diverse fields.
21 May, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced an advance it its gate-insulating film process technology for SiC-MOSFETs, widely seen as the core technology for next generation semiconductor power device, that cuts resistance in the channel region. Applied to actual vertical devices, the technology reduces resistance by approximately 40% against current technology, and once in practical use, it is expected to lower power loss in power inverters for cars, trains, solar cells, elevators, and devices in many other fields. Such reductions will help reduce both power consumption and CO2 emissions.
20 Apr, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has realized a major breakthrough in combinatorial optimization─the selection of the best solutions from among an enormous number of combinatorial patterns─with the development of an algorithm that delivers the world's fastest and largest-scale performance, and an approximately 10-fold improvement over current methods. Toshiba's new method can be applied to such daunting but essential tasks as identifying efficient delivery routes, determining the most effective molecular structures to investigate in new drug development, and building portfolios of profitable financial products.
15 Mar, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has developed CO2 conversion technology(Note 1) with the world's highest level of conversion efficiency, approximately 450 times higher than that of the company's current technology. At a time when many countries face the urgent challenge of reducing CO2 emissions to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement, Toshiba's new solution is a highly promising advance in respect of operating efficiency, space requirements and low cost. Going forward Toshiba aims to develop commercial systems based on the technology by the latter half of the 2020s.
21 Jan, 2019
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), a recognized innovator in products and technologies that contribute to a better future, has achieved a major breakthrough in photovoltaic power with the fabrication of the world's first transparent cuprous oxide (Cu2O) solar cells for use in tandem solar cells. By stacking solar cells with different properties, tandem cells widen the wavelengths at which sunlight can be absorbed, and are expected to increase power generating efficiency while lowering costs.
17 Dec, 2018
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) have developed technology for compacting deep neural networks (DNN) obtained by deep learning. The technology reduces the parameter yielded resulting from the learning process by 80% while maintaining DNN performance, and opens the way to implementing highly accurate recognition processes for speech and images and the like on edge devices.
13 Dec, 2018
TOKYO─Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has applied machine learning (AI) to the problem of detecting anomalies that cause downtime in manufacturing facilities and social infrastructure, and developed a system, "One-Class Learning Time-series Shapelets (OCLTS)," that is 9% more accurate than current approaches and that provides a firm basis for identifying potential problems. OCLTS will improve the accuracy of anomaly detection in industrial equipment, and provide an explanatory basis for determining causes. Once deployed, it will contribute to higher equipment utilization rates and lower maintenance costs.
12 Dec, 2018
The great promise of IoT in the industrial sector is improved productivity and efficiency from increased capacity utilization, fewer equipment malfunctions, and lower maintenance costs. Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) is realizing this with OPOSSAM, its newly developed "Online Prediction Method of Stream Data with Self-Adaptive Memory." A major advance in AI for edge devices, OPOSSAM continuously harvests real time data streams from numerous sensors installed in production systems and social infrastructure, and delivers highly accurate predictions of future system status and of the need for and timing of maintenance.
18 Jun, 2018
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) have developed the world's largest film-based perovskite photovoltaic module. The module is 703cm2 and realizes a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.7%, overcoming the difficulties of increasing size and efficiency at the same time. The module was realized with meniscus printing technology owned by Toshiba and a newly developed printing process.
14 Jun, 2018
Toshiba has developed technology that makes it easy to implement physically unclonable functions (PUFs) by using the variations in output from field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as the chip fingerprint (ID). The technology realizes mutual authentication between robots and IoT devices.
07 Jun, 2018
Toshiba has developed a simple, low-cost testing method for the phthalate esters that are being added to the European Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS). The new technique uses simple equipment and procedures to keep testing costs low, but nonetheless achieves high separation and accuracy that allows restricted substances to be distinguished from other substances. Details of the method will be presented on 22 May at the Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, in Okinawa, Japan.
23 May, 2018
Twin-Field QKD allows secure quantum key distribution over 500 km of optical fibre
Cambridge, UK, 2 May 2018: The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd today announced that it has devised a new protocol for quantum key distribution (QKD) that will extend its range to over 500 km of standard telecom fibre. This advance, called Twin-Field QKD, enables the protection of sensitive data transmitted in optical networks between cities. It would allow a secure link between cities like London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam or Dublin. The details of the breakthrough are published today in the scientific journal, Nature.
Toshiba's New AI-based Virtual Assistant Technology Provides
Cambridge, UK, 2 May 2018: The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd today announced that it has devised a new protocol for quantum key distribution (QKD) that will extend its range to over 500 km of standard telecom fibre. This advance, called Twin-Field QKD, enables the protection of sensitive data transmitted in optical networks between cities. It would allow a secure link between cities like London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam or Dublin. The details of the breakthrough are published today in the scientific journal, Nature.
Toshiba's New AI-based Virtual Assistant Technology Provides
20 Apr, 2018
Toshiba has developed an AI-based virtual assistant technology for shopping centers and similar venues that adapts the guidance it offers to reflect the latest available information on stores and products. The virtual assistant dynamically changes the content of the dialogues it generates to provide guidance that matches criteria and rating defined by the system operator. It gives users recommendations about shops, merchandise and the like, displaying dialogues quickly, in natural language, and allows the operator to efficiently provide daily updates about things like new products, sales, and special offers. Users get the benefit of up-to-date results that match their expressed interests and intentions. The new technology was demonstrated at "Interaction 2018" conference (5-7 March 2018), a venue for researchers into human-computer interactions.
05 Mar, 2018
TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has developed a new circuit technology for an automotive LiDAR which enables long-range distance measurement while capturing high quality 3D images, securing a major advance in a technology essential for self-driving vehicles. The developed LiDAR using the proposed circuit achieves a measurement range of 200m*1, which is world's highest and twice than that of conventional automobile LiDARs.