Shifting Demand for Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors Creates a Critical Supply Shortfall for Medical Electronics Needs

MLCC manufacturers are ramping up manufacturing capacity.

Maintaining Quality in Medical Imaging Applications: Considerations for Capacitor Selection

Before you select RF components for an MRI machine, make sure you first understand the basic physics of the technology.

Stretchable Micro-Supercapacitors to Self-Power Wearable Devices

The system harvests energy from human breathing and motion.

High-Reliability Capacitors: Critical Components for Medical Device Implantables

Learn about requirements, regulations, and testing procedures for medical device capacitors.

Stretchable Material for Wearables Operates at Low Power

A novel stretchable material, when used in light-emitting capacitor devices, enables highly visible illumination at low operating voltages.

Nylon Provides Building Block for Electronic Devices

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...

The ‘Relativity’ of High Q Capacitors

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...

Self-Powered Wearable Tech

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...

‘Candy Cane’ Polymer Weave Could Power Future Functional Fabrics and Devices

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...

Custom Engineered HV Power Supplies for High- Performance Applications

High-voltage power supplies (HVPSs) are required in multiple configurations and capabilities. The dimensions, type of enclosure, weight, input and outputs, thermal and...

Tantalum Capacitors for Medical Applications

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,...

‘Near-Zero-Power’ Temperature Sensor Could Make Wearables Less Power-Hungry

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...

Supercapacitor Could Make Implantables Battery-Free, Longer Lasting

Researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut have designed a new biofriendly energy storage system called a biological supercapacitor, which operates using...

Electroluminescent Skin for Healthcare Robots

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...

Finding Flaws in Medical Implants

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...

Two-Stage Power System Boosts Energy-Harvesting Efficiency

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...

Signaling Implantable Electronics to Dissolve

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...

Safety in Medical Electrical Equipment Starts with the Power Connection

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...

Implantable Microsystems for Anatomical Rewiring of Brain Circuitry

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...