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Electronic Components

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: Energy
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
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Briefs: Wearables
The biofuel cells can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device is stretchy enough to wear like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory that touches the skin.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Flexible electrodes, NASA sensors, and anti-corrosion compounds.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
COMSOL announces version 6.0 of its Multiphysics® software.
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Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
To ensure the availability of a UPS system, proper consideration must be taken of each application and its requirements.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
What's so tough about developing a car? A Tech Briefs reader wants to know the most challenging subsystem of the vehicle to build.
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Briefs: Materials
These elastomers have a wide range of uses for the building, automotive, and electronics industries.
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5 Ws: Energy
About the size of a grain of sand, the flying microchip (or microflier) does not have a motor or engine.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An ultra-small actuator has nanometer-scale precision.
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Articles: AR/AI
Supply chains run best when all the stakeholders involved stay keenly focused on their core competencies, says Tom Vanderheyden from TTI Americas.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Engineers have developed a sensor system and manufacturing process for smart contact lenses. The sensor system contains a photodetector for receiving optical information, a temperature sensor for...
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This robot can run, jump, carry heavy payloads, and turn on a dime.
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Products: Test & Measurement
The PM-50 graphical panel meter is available as a 3.5" or 4.3" graphical touchscreen display.
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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have devised and tested a highly sensitive method of detecting and counting defects in transistors...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Boron is a versatile non-metal element, but until the last five years, chemists have only theorized about the useful properties and applications of two-dimensional (2D)...
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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will Our Bodies Power Our Everyday Electronics?
One of the top INSIDER stories of 2021 included a “wearable microgrid” that harvests energy from motion and sweat to power electronics. (Read the 2021 INSIDER story.)
Products: Propulsion
Motors, suspension arms, slit couplings, and more.
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Facility Focus: Automotive
Purdue University is helping to create better battery monitoring, stretchable biosensors, allergen detectors, and more.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rugged laptops, DC-DC converters, CMOS sensors, and more.
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Articles: Software
These 12 products are the nominees for the 2021 Tech Briefs Readers’ Choice Product of the Year.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A mobile robot will go to the South Pole of the Moon — with help from radiation-hardened avionics.
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Briefs: Internet of Things
The phased array antenna based on large-area electronics technology could enable many uses of emerging 5G and 6G wireless networks.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.
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Briefs: Communications
This technology improves the detection of low-power far-infrared (FIR) signals.
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Special Reports: Tubing & Extrusion
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - November 2021
In this new report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs and Tech Briefs magazines, discover how the latest advances in 3D printing, machining, molding and more are changing the way...

Products: Electronics & Computers
Power supply ICs, temperature sensors, DC-DC converters, and more.
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