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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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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - September 2021
An automated CT system “sees” deep inside electronics to spot hidden defects...a NASA moon mission spinoff now monitors forest fire emissions...a novel way to test bonded structures in critical aerospace...

5 Ws: Materials
The durable soft electronics could be used in wearable electronics and soft robotics and could someday be part of a stretchable smartphone.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designed for soldier uniforms, the fiber can sense, store, analyze, and infer activity when sewn into a piece of clothing.
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Briefs: Wearables
The approach could lead to more flexible health monitors, wearable devices, sensors, optical communication systems, and soft robotics.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
An atom-based sensor can determine the direction of an incoming radio signal.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Water-sensing smartphone screens, a NASA-developed RF switch, and an ultrasound patch.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
These antennas dramatically increase the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a coherent light source.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Applications include wearables, airplane cabin monitoring, medical diagnostics, and indoor air quality measurement.
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Briefs: Communications
The flexible antenna was designed for active aeronautical satellite communications.
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Briefs: Energy
The new battery is degradable, recyclable, non-toxic, and safer than lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
The wearable antenna bends, stretches, and compresses without compromising function.
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Briefs: Wearables
The technology would enable transmission of information just by touching a surface.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The SHT40 Smart Gadget comes with a humidity and temperature sensor.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
To modernize optical storage, Purdue researchers are replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters.”
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Demand for wireless IoT cloud-connected devices is growing rapidly, yet deploying Wi-Fi battery-based products is difficult.
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Briefs: Energy
The battery can withstand thousands of charge and discharge cycles and years of storage before being composted.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers at North Carolina State University demonstrated a low-cost technique for retrieving — and then reusing — nanowires from electronic devices.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Learn the differences between bipolar and unipolar motors, their driving methods, and advantages and limitations.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An OEM must think about how to build a machine that will work on any kind of power system.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Epoxies, reverse-engineering software, temperature loggers, and more.
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Articles: Connectivity
Learn about widely used communications technologies for motion control.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Kristin Sampayan from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found a fast way to switch high voltages.
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Special Reports: Wearables
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Power Electronics - August 2021
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 a range of applications including...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft, rubber-like materials could improve robot range.
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Briefs: Energy
The Battery Identity Global Passport could be accessible as a scannable QR code or a computer chip.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The tough circuits could withstand the grueling demands of energy production, space exploration, and more.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This invention enables improved carrier mobility for solar cells and other electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The switch has uses in circuit protection systems in the electric power grid, high-power military applications, and power for materials processing.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The soft, stretchy skin patch can monitor cardiovascular signals and multiple biochemical levels at the same time.
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