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R&D: Medical
Engineers have created a deep-ultraviolet (UV) laser using semiconductor materials that show great promise for improving the use of UV light for sterilizing medical tools, among other applications....
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Features: Electronics & Computers
Briefs: Wearables
Technology Leaders: Medical
The Hall effect was named after its discoverer, American physicist and thermoelectric researcher Harvard Edwin Herbert Hall. The Hall sensor acts as a magnetic field perpendicular to a...
R&D: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have demonstrated that a long-elusive kind of laser diode based on organic semiconductors is indeed possible, paving the way for the further expansion of lasers in applications such as...
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The Polymerization Process Research Group of the Polymat Institute of the UPV/EHU–University of the Basque Country has efficiently encapsulated semiconductor nanocrystals...
Briefs: IoMT
The increasing demand for miniaturized electronics and Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created new challenges for the specialists who design microdevices such as...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Japanese researchers describe a new implantable device no bigger than the width of a coin that can be used to control brain patterns. The device, which can be read about...
Briefs: Medical
Glass fibers do everything from connecting us to the Internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through an endoscope. But as versatile as today’s fiber optics are,...
Briefs: Medical
A team of engineers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas is working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in breath analysis for a wide range of...
Briefs: Medical
In a study led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a...
R&D: Medical
Kirigami-Inspired Method Builds 'Pop-Up' 3D Structures
A new assembly method based on an ancient Japanese paper art instantly transforms 2D structures into complex 3D shapes. The results, reported by a Northwestern University and University of Illinois research team, could be useful in tissue engineering and microelectromechanical systems.
Features: Medical
A well-performing thermal interface material (TIM) fulfills a variety of application requirements within the broad range of electronic modules and systems incorporated in...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researcher Predicts Advances in Thermal Materials
To produce electricity, thermoelectric materials capture waste heat from sources such as automobile exhausts or industrial processes. Improving the materials' efficiency will require further reduction of thermal conductivity. A new article from a Georgia Institute of Technology professor...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Stacking Approach Creates New 2D Materials
Researchers from Penn State University have worked with University of Texas at Dallas engineers to induce different two-dimensional materials to form directly on top of one another. The stacking approach achieves clean interfaces between layers — an important factor for novel nanoelectronic...
Briefs: Medical
Chemists at the University of Chicago in collaboration with other researchers at Northwestern University have developed the first...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers Use Water to Improve Nanowires
Rice University graduate students and researchers have made nanowires between 6 and 16 nanometers wide. The wires are made from a variety of materials, including silicon, silicon dioxide, gold, chromium, tungsten, titanium, titanium dioxide, and aluminum. The development of sub-10-nanometer sizes...
R&D: Medical
Soldering Technique Makes Cheap Semiconductors
A University of Chicago research team has created a new solder for semiconductors. After being heated to several hundred degrees Celsius, the compounds of cadmium, lead, and bismuth can be applied as a liquid or paste to join two pieces of a semiconductor.
R&D: Medical
Germanium Ready for 2D Electronics
Researchers from The Ohio State University are working to turn germanium into a potential replacement for silicon.
R&D: Materials
A team of applied physicists at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, are developing a technology that coats a metallic object with an extremely thin layer of...
R&D: Medical
Recording Speedy Electrons in Silicon
An international team of physicists and chemists based at the University of California at Berkeley has, for the first time, recorded the action of silicon electrons becoming freed from their atomic shells using attosecond pulses of soft X-ray light lasting only a few billionths of a billionth of a...
Features: Test & Measurement
One of the more common purposes of an ultrasonic flow meter is to measure the velocity of a fluid in order to calculate the volumetric flow rate of a medium through a tube. This can be done through the...
R&D: Medical
A team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have developed an atomically thin, 2D, ultrasensitive semiconductor material for biosensing uses that, they say, could expand the...
Global Innovations: Medical
A team of researchers from the Holst Centre working with colleagues...
Briefs: Medical
Mechanical engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette IN, have proposed a new technology that, they say, could control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an...
R&D: Medical
A team of engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, and Hanyang University in Korea has developed a new approach to fabricating...
R&D: Imaging
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built an experimental device that, they say, could speed up medical imaging using amorphous silicon and a surprising simple inexpensive...
R&D: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex, UK, Electronics Interconnection group has developed a new method to produce conductive textiles, which could...
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Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Webinars: Wearables
5 Ways to Test Wearable Devices
Webinars: Test & Measurement
Powering Medical Devices: How to Filter Noise Out While Keeping Safety In
On-Demand Webinars: Medical
High-purity Silicone Adhesive Solutions for Medical Device Assembly
Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Here's an Idea: Real-Time Remote Heart Monitoring
Tech Talks: Materials
A Look Into New Silicone Elastomers for Low-Temperature Biopharma Applications
Webinars: Medical
Inside Story
Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development
Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.