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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: Semiconductors & ICs
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
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Briefs: Materials
This electronic skin can track heart rate, respiration, muscle movement, and other health data.
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NASA Spinoff: Semiconductors & ICs
Isolators used to control semiconductor manufacturing keep the James Webb Space Telescope steady.
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Question of the Week: Transportation
Will ‘Unbreakable Batteries’ Find a Place in Electronics and Vehicles?
Increasingly, lithium-ion batteries are supporting portable electronics, electric vehicles, and grid storage.
INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...
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Articles: Data Acquisition
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
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Facility Focus: Imaging
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Q&A: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are driven...
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Briefs: Materials
Made with “Jenga chemistry,” the material could help in understanding how high-temperature superconductors work.
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Briefs: Packaging & Sterilization
This packaging provides protection for SiC sensors and electronics in harsh, hightemperature environments.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology could lead to the creation of fully functional quantum computers.
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Products: Data Acquisition
The GNV-720 and GNV-725 humidity temperature meters from Global Specialties feature three environmental sensors.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
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Articles: Transportation
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
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Products: Motion Control
LIDAR Systems, Smart Cameras, Optical Communications, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A process was developed for producing oxide perovskite crystals in flexible, free-standing layers. A two-dimensional rendition of this substance is intriguing because 2D materials have been shown to...
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
To investigate oceans, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that sends data to the surface. Supplying constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long...
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Contact lenses that can monitor the wearer’s health and correct eyesight use embedded electronics. These, and other curved devices such as solar cells and electronics, could be...
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Articles: Wearables
Battelle's simple, cost-effective sensor detects the onset of battery faults.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Smart Electronic Skin for Robots and Prosthetics
Humans use the sense of touch to accomplish almost every daily task such as picking up a cup of coffee or shaking someone’s hand. Without it, humans can even lose their sense of balance when walking. Similarly, robots need to have a sense of touch in order to interact better with humans but robots...
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A method was developed to make atom-flat sensors that seamlessly integrate with devices to report on what they perceive. Electronically active 2D materials, touted for their strength, are difficult to move to...
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A transistor has been made from linen thread, enabling the creation of electronic devices made entirely of thin threads that could be woven into fabric, worn on the skin, or implanted...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
OnLogic has introduced the Karbon 700 high-performance rugged computer.
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