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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
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: AR/AI
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Transportation
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing.
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Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Tim Brosnihan, Executive Director of SEMI’s MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG), talks about the current state of the MEMS industry and trends for the future,
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The K6PM provides continuous, remote thermal monitoring of critical components such as high-voltage control panels, transformers, and hydraulic equipment.
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Blog: Transportation
The Los Angeles, CA-based company Nanotech Energy is using graphene to prevent thermal runaway and create a non-flammable battery.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The capacitor could enable a new generation of electronics that will require less power and generate less heat.
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Briefs: Energy
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
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Briefs: Energy
Applications include emergency medicine, combat casualty care, and sports injuries.
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Briefs: Imaging
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
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Briefs: Materials
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
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Special Reports: Design
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Electronics Design & Assembly - May 2020
The latest advances in chip and board-level design and manufacturing are spotlighted in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology...

INSIDER: Design
Wearable tech and electronic cloth may be the way of the future, but to get there the wiring needs to be strong, flexible, and efficient.
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Microelectronics like semiconductor devices are at the heart of the technologies we use each day. As we move into an era where we are stretching the limits of Moore’s Law, it is...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
More portable, fully wireless smart home setups; lower power wearables; batteryless smart devices, could all be made possible with this new ultra-low power Wi-Fi radio. It is housed in a chip smaller than...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
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Briefs: Internet of Things
The technology could help in elder care with sensors throughout a home.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials can be used in soft robotics, self-healing electronics, and medical devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method could lead to the transmission of data at the rate of 100 gigabits per second.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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RF & Microwave Electronics - April 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology and Tech Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new applications in space and ground...

Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Use a CurveBoard?
MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products.

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