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Tag: electronics
What is the future of PCB development?
When it comes to printed circuit boards (PCB), the future seems extremely bright.
Atom-thick heat shield could make smartphones even thinner
A new insulating material that's 50,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper could make electronics even more compact.
Scientists create gold one million times thinner than a fingernail
The authors call this a "landmark achievement."
Stretchable electronics could be as ‘multipurpose as your phone’
A new approach in how we can work with electronics.
Stretchy, bendy electronic circuits paves way to new wearable tech, bioimplants
They're bending the rules!
Scientists build electrical circuit out of four-stranded DNA
The research could inspire a novel class of microelectronics based on DNA.
Scientists embed flexible, washable integrated circuits into fabric
Smart clothing just got sleeker.
Cheap but smart glove translates American Sign Language into text
The device could enable people with speech impairment to communicate easier.
Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient
Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.
Researchers double WiFi broadband while halving chip size
A new circuit was demonstrated at the 2016 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference this past February that can, among ...
Device harvests energy from walking to charge your mobile and wearable electronics
A promising power generation system uses the energy you expend walking or running to power mobile devices.
The Electronic Rose
When is a rose not a rose? When it's a transistorized electronic circuit, of course. Scientists at Sweden's Linköping University ...
Check out the world’s first 3D electronics printer
I love disruptive technologies, and 3D printing is undoubtedly one of the leading such movements in the 21st century. This ...
A first step towards making ‘plastic’ semiconductors for stretchy-electronics
Stanford chemical engineers have developed a theoretical model that sheds light on the electrical conductivity properties of polymers. Their work ...
How electronics waste is causing a global ecological time bomb
An e-waste dump in Nigeria. Some 50 million tones of hazardous e-waste, various electronics that have ...
Graphene transistors made using DNA assembly
To the right is a honeycomb of graphene atoms. To the left is a double strand ...
The Impact of Electronics
This generation is really very blessed because of the evolution of electronics. Most often, all types of person from all ...
Stretchy electronic circuits mimic nature and allow for flexible computers
(c) Rafael Libanori, Randall M. Erb and André R. Studart Flexible electronics are still in their ...