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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: Electronics & Computers
The transistors enable power converters to perform at substantially improved efficiencies, especially in high-power applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The new material could help put more power in smaller microchips.
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Briefs: Energy
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: Energy
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The inexpensive cameras are easy to produce.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Battery analyzers, uninterruptible power supplies, adhesives, and more.
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Products: Test & Measurement
A smart temperature transmitter delivers measurements via Bluetooth.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers from RMIT have introduced an ultra-thin material for semiconductors that could lead to transparent electronics.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Researchers from Cornell University have redesigned the battery so that aluminum more easily integrates into a battery's electrodes.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Servo drives, magnetic angle sensors, draw wires, and more.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Displacement sensors, metal 3D printers, shielding materials, and more.
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Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See the advanced materials, complex systems, and bioengineering technologies being created at Cornell.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - April 2021
How 3D printing is transforming the medical industry...adapting to the manufacturing challenges of COVID-19...improving quality and reliability in PCB production. These are just a few of the...

Briefs: Energy
This composite can be used in lithium metal batteries.
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Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Professor Qiaoqiang Gan of the University at Buffalo (NY) and his team developed a unique two-in-one system that uses solar energy for simultaneously cooling and heating — without electricity.
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Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
Medical instruments equipped with a soft electronics system improve diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
These robust supercapacitors still work when stretched to eight times their original size.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Assembling tiny chips into unique programmable surfaces dramatically increases the amount of data wireless systems can transmit.
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Blog: Energy
You have the power. That's the idea behind a "wearable microgrid" from the University of California San Diego that harvest and stores energy from your body to power electronics.
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Blog: Transportation
Software and electrical engineering is converging in today’s vehicles. A reader asks our expert: “How do you decide which items to test first?”
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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Do You See Applications for Electronics-Free Robots?
In our lead INSIDER story today, UCSD researcher Dylan Drotman talked to Tech Briefs about his team’s air-powered robot.
Special Reports: Aerospace
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Unmanned Systems - March 2021
Drones that swarm and change shape mid-flight... autonomous combat vehicles on the battlefield...the latest in counter-UAS technology. Read about new advances in air and ground unmanned systems in this report from...

Products: Imaging
Near-eye displays, optical inspection systems, UV glass, and more.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The marking provides easy-to-see legends on plastic buttons under widely varying illumination conditions.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
With new vehicles, automotive manufacturers will need to closely monitor the current flowing to the motor.
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Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Professor Shirley Meng explains why there's a demand for stretchable batteries.
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Special Reports: Energy
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Rugged Computing - March 2021
From the battlefield to the oceans to the extremes of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. To help you keep pace with the latest developments, we present this...

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