Archive : 2015 год

In a move which it claims will redefine the market for PCB Design software, Mentor Graphics has introduced three new packages to its PADS product line.Jamie Metcalfe, market development manager, said the market had historically been seen as a pyramid. "We want to address the market from a company size point of view. While larger companies...

A team led by UCL has used 3D imaging techniques to determine what happens inside a lithium-ion battery when it overheats and then explodes. According to the researchers, it is important to understand how Li-ion batteries fail in order to improve their design to make them safer to use and transport. Recently, three airlines announced they will...

Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA says it has decided to enhance its operations by combining the sales forces of Avnet Memec and Silica into one with effect from 29 June 2015.The combined organisation will be led by Mario Orlandi, pictured, currently president of Silica. "This is an opportunity to extend our offerings and our customer base...

The Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN) has reported what it calls 'a welcome improvement' in total monthly billings in March 2015. Consolidated figures reported by the association's authorised distributor (AFDEC) membership show that billings increased by 10% compared to February and by 2% over March 2014.ECSN chairman Adam...

One thing Gordon Moore wasn't thinking about when he contributed an article to the 35th anniversary issue of Electronics magazine was creating a law of any kind.But his prediction – because that's what it was – has indeed turned into a law and a law which has driven the semiconductor industry to its current levels of excelle...

A research team, headed by James Hone from the University of Columbia in the US, has shown that the performance of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), a two-dimensional material, can be improved by encapsulating it in boron nitride.In 2013, Hone's team demonstrated it could improve the performance of graphene by encapsulating it in boron nitride,...

Launched at the beginning of the year, the European OptIntegral project uses a manufacturing process based on in-mould hybrid integration of thin, organic and large area electronics and photonics components.This enables manufacturing of LED displays at lower cost and higher display resolution than is currently possible. The optics are moulded d...

Terahertz waves are beginning to be used in everyday applications within the security sector, for security screening, and the medical field to replace the more harmful X-ray.Now, chemists at Caltech have created a frequency comb that precisely generates and detects terahertz waves. The device uses ultrafast pulsed lasers, or oscillators, to pro...

Freescale, soon to be part of NXP as a consequence of the deal announced in March 2015, continues its slow recovery from its previously troubled financial position.In its latest statement, the company says it grew Q1 sales to $1.17billion, a 6% increase over the same quarter in 2014."First quarter results marked another quarter of soli...

While silicon based transistors have been the foundation of modern electronics, carbon nanotube wires show promise in replacing silicon because the technology can operate ten times as fast and is more flexible. However, the approach has some problems caused by gaps at the junctions between the nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Illinoi...