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Browse the innovative developments in electronic components that are enabling advancements in passives, semiconductors, electromechanical, power and circuit protection. Access technical briefs and articles that provide essential applications for cellphones, laptops, tablets, and other electronics.

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Magnets generate invisible fields that attract certain materials. Far more important to our everyday lives, magnets also can store data in computers. Exploiting the direction of the magnetic field, microscopic bar magnets each can store one bit of memory as a zero or a one — the language of computers.
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Special Reports: Communications
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Rugged Computing & Electronics - June 2023
From the battlefield to the extremes of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. Keep pace with the latest developments in this compendium of recent...

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending tool to make the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable, and...
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Cornell researchers have developed an optical neural network (ONN) that can filter relevant information from a scene before the visual image is detected by a camera, a method that...
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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
An apparatus such as a wireless sensor used in a hazardous location must meet the required safety standards. Those standards are amplified when the hazardous duty is done in areas in or near explosive atmospheres.
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Briefs: Wearables
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Multi-Energy Electron Device to Enable Lab Testing of Spacecraft Materials
Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory are developing a multi-energy electron source, capable of emitting a beam of electrons, at dozens of energies simultaneously.
Products: Electronics & Computers
See the New Products, including Variable Beam Expander, a modulator, Smart Fixture Mount Sensors, a pluggable module, and more.
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Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
By avoiding hazardous chemicals, the work points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental footprint.
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Quiz: Electronics & Computers
Do you know what microgrids are and how they work? Find out with this quiz.
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Quiz: Electronics & Computers
Test your knowledge about the facts, history, and individual elements of computer processors.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware, says USC...
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Power Electronics - April 2023
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from drones...

Products: Information Technology
See the product of the month.
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Briefs: Materials
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
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Articles: Energy
SAE's WCX World Congress Experience, will be held from April 18-20, in Detroit, MI.
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INSIDER: Design
True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone...
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INSIDER: Design
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms.
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Blog: Materials
Instead of disposing of batteries after three years, we could have recyclable batteries that last three times longer.
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INSIDER: Energy
Researchers at Arizona State University and Northrop Grumman are working on a new project to create power transistors from diamond. The results could yield efficiencies that significantly shrink the size of electrical...
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Blog: Materials
A counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics: adding vibrations to reduce vibration issues.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
To ensure networks are prepared for the next wave of transmission, operators need to build wave multiplexing systems that will allow connections to migrate to 100 Gb/s.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This measurement technique is particularly useful for, but not limited to, samples containing organic compounds.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The researchers plan to apply the design to edge computing devices.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The new Indicators feature true absolute sensor technology that minimizes the chance of data loss.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage.
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Quiz: Electronics & Computers
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The design goal is to provide exceptional RF signal range and stability, while also reducing power consumption, in a miniaturized package.
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