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Briefs: Medical
Researchers at Drexel University are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
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Features: Materials
Before you select RF components for an MRI machine, make sure you first understand the basic physics of the technology.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system harvests energy from human breathing and motion.
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Technology Leaders: Medical
Learn about requirements, regulations, and testing procedures for medical device capacitors.
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R&D: Wearables
A novel stretchable material, when used in light-emitting capacitor devices, enables highly visible illumination at low operating voltages.
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R&D: Medical
Thin nylon films are several 100 times thinner than human hair and could thus be attractive for applications in bendable electronic devices or for electronics in clothing. The researchers...
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Features: Photonics/Optics
For many high-power RF applications, the “Q factor” of embedded capacitors is one of the most important characteristics in the design of circuits. This includes products such as cellular/telecom...
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R&D: Energy
Researchers have created highly stretchable supercapacitors for powering wearable electronics. The newly developed supercapacitor has demonstrated solid performance and stability, even when it is stretched to 800...
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Briefs: Materials
If scientists are ever going to deliver on the promise of implantable artificial organs or clothing that dries itself, they’ll first need to solve the problem of...
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Features: Medical
High-voltage power supplies (HVPSs) are required in multiple configurations and capabilities. The dimensions, type of enclosure, weight, input and outputs, thermal and...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
Surface mount solid tantalum capacitors are a well-established technology and have been broadly employed in medical devices for decades. There are many reasons to choose tantalum, including their...
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Briefs: Medical
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower...
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut have designed a new biofriendly energy storage system called a biological supercapacitor, which operates using charged...
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Features: Design
Optimizing Electronics for Medical Applications
Two years ago, in Medical Design Briefs, Derek Hunt offered some insight into the benefits of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology in the miniaturization of medical devices. CMOS has been around for decades and aside from the size benefits which will be discussed shortly, the...
Briefs: Medical
A team of Cornell University graduate engineering students say that they envision a future where a healthcare robot could display a patient’s temperature and pulse, and then read and react to a...
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Briefs: Medical
Cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic circuits, can cause damage to such disparate objects as medical implants and spacecraft. The cracks, which are often hidden...
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R&D: Medical
A two-stage power management and storage system from Georgia Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of triboelectric generators to harvest energy from irregular human motion,...
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R&D: Medical
Novel Fibers Maintain Electrical Resistance When Stretched
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have made electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to over 14 times their initial length. Electrical conductivity of the fibers increases 200-fold when stretched.
R&D: Medical
Nanowire Yarn Boosts Supercapacitor Efficiency
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered that yarn made of niobium nanowires enables more efficient supercapacitors. The new approach uses the yarns as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors. Adding a coating of a conductive polymer to the yarn further increases the...
Briefs: Medical
A team of mechanical and materials engineers in Iowa State University say that they have a new way of looking at electronics—as impermanent materials that can completely dissolve once they are no...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Electrical equipment used in medical technology must not place patients or medical staff in danger. This, in turn, requires that designing safe equipment starts at the...
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Briefs: Medical
It has been demonstrated that after a stroke-like lesion in the cerebral cortex of non-human primates, the remaining intact tissue undergoes extensive neuro-physiological and...
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