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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: Photonics/Optics
This method could lead to the transmission of data at the rate of 100 gigabits per second.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Special Reports: Communications
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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: Semiconductors & ICs
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.
Application Briefs: Transportation
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Medical
These electrode implants will allow people with a dysfunctional inner ear to hear again.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Shield Using Proximity Coupled, Spatially Varying Superconducting Order Parameters
This magnetic shielding design can be easily incorporated into a wide range of electronic sensing applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
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Articles: Energy
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
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5 Ws: Electronics & Computers
Learn about the Pedestrian Audio Wearable System (PAWS), a low-cost, headset-based, wearable platform.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This new understanding can help chip manufacturers find ways to better diffuse the heat that leads to device damage and decreased device lifespans.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Nagoya University scientists have succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light. It emits the world's shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers, under pulsed electric current...
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INSIDER: Power
Scientists at Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden) have described a method to manufacture transistors using gallium nitride and aluminum nitride that have the ability to withstand voltages as high...
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Facility Focus: Materials
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
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Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
Low-viscosity plastic; coin cell holders; oxidation-resistant coatings; and more.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Encoder The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified. It features both BiSS and SSI...
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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Rugged Computing - February 2020
From the battlefield to the extreme environment of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. To help you keep pace with the latest developments, we present this...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The functional transistors are integrated with ferroelectric RAM.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
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Briefs: Materials
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials transfer ultra-small, high-aspect-ratio features into silicon for next-generation electronic devices.
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Briefs: Materials
These materials may replace metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, computers, cellphones, and refrigerators.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology could be used to create smartphones that don't scratch or shatter, metal-free pacemakers, and electronics for space and other harsh environments.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
In some cases, radio frequency signals may be more useful for caregivers than cameras or other methods to collect health and behavioral data.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
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