Electronics & Semiconductors

Miniature bellows contact springs ensure reliable electrical connection when tolerance buildup, vibration, and thermal expansion becomes a problem with lifetime spring and force repeatability.

The 2002 Series Topjobs fuse-terminal blocks consist of a four-conductor, mini-automotive fuse-holder block and a four-conductor fuse-disconnect block with a spare 5 × 20-mm fuse holder.

Automation providers ABB and Bosch Rexroth have both devised robotic and motion-control equipment aimed at PV production tasks.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have recently launched a project to create a dynamic electronic surface that will let blind and visually impaired people “feel” mathematical graphics, diagrams, and other visuals displayed on computer screens, including pictures and maps.

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a method for growing individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer.

Also from Cornell researchers comes a broadband light amplifier on a silicon chip, considered a significant step towards photonic microchips, devices in which photons replace electrons as the means of communication.

Georgia Tech researchers have built a highly sensitive atomicforce-microscopy (AFM) device capable of imaging 100 times faster than conventional AFM equipment.

Call your oven from your cell phone. New WiFi technology makes it possible.

A prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography system recently made its debut at the Dept. of Energy's Sandia National Labs in Livermore, Calif.

X-rays can go deeper into PC-board inspection than traditional vision systems to uncover component placement and soldering errors.