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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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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
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Facility Focus: Aerospace
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Q&A: Energy
Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.
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Articles: Energy
Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
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Briefs: Energy
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: Semiconductors & ICs
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: Electronics & Computers
The GNV-720 and GNV-725 humidity temperature meters from Global Specialties feature three environmental sensors.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
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Articles: Aerospace
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
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Products: Imaging
LIDAR Systems, Smart Cameras, Optical Communications, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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: IoMT
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: Electronics & Computers
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
OnLogic has introduced the Karbon 700 high-performance rugged computer.
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Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Will ‘Print-in-Place’ Electronics Become a Mainstream Medical Tool?
The Duke University team says its “print-in-place” advancement could lead to embedded electronic tattoos and custom bandages with patient-specific biosensors.
News: Electronics & Computers
Ben Sharfi, CEO of General Micro Systems (GMS), says he has the Product of the Year. Do you agree?
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News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
SOSA, the Sensor Open Systems Architecture Consortium, held a press conference on Monday afternoon at AUSA 2019.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most of our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface — an underwater...
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INSIDER: Wearables
Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or even transform to...
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Special Reports: RF & Microwave Electronics
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RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2019
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology, Tech Briefs and Medical Design Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new...

Products: Test & Measurement
See the new tech products being offered in October 2019.
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