Component Management
Nanomagnets prepare future data storage
An international team of researchers led by chemists from ETH Zurich have developed a method for depositing single magnetisable atoms onto a surface. This is especially interesting for the development of new miniature data storage devices.
Nano devices withstand extreme environments in space and on earth
Behind its thick swirling clouds, Venus is hiding a hot surface pelted with sulfuric acid rains. At 480ºC, the planet’s atmosphere would fry any of today’s electronics, posing a challenge to scientists hoping to study this extreme environment. Researchers at the Stanford Extreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory, or the XLab, are on a mission to conquer these conditions.
Henkel strengthens offer in hot dip galvanising market
Henkel’s portfolio of products for the hot dip galvanising (HDG) market now includes a number of new-to-the-UK surface solutions for many stages of the process, including acid/alkaline cleaning, pickling and pickling inhibitors, passivating or conversion coating prior to painting.
Plasma could cut wind resistance for trucks
Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are successfully testing a way to reduce drag on trucks by creating air vortices on a vehicle’s front corners. But unlike airplane vortex generators made of solid material, these are invisible ones made with the help of electric wind. KTH researcher Julie Vernet says the electric wind vortices she is testing can reduce fuel consumption by up to 5% on a flat-nosed, cab-over-engine de...
Researchers create artificial materials atom-by-atom
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties. By moving individual atoms under their microscope, the scientists were able to create atomic lattices with a predetermined electrical response. The possibility to precisely arrange the atoms on a sample bring 'designer quantum materials' one step closer to reality. By arranging atoms in a lattice, it becomes possible to engineer...
Form-in-Place filler plugs large gaps
SARCON SPG-30B from Fujipoly is a new form-in-place thermal gap filler that eliminates performance-hindering air gaps ranging from .08mm to 1.0mm. SPG-30B is said to deliver a superior thermal conductivity of 3.1 W/m°K with a thermal resistance of only 0.33°Cin2/W.
Report details the conductive inks and paste market
The paste market for the PV industry is currently booming as PV sales are up in anticipation of the end of current feed-in-tariffs in China. In fact, sales has surpassed even the expectations of material and paste suppliers. The paste market has witnessed a change of market share in the past few years which has had major ripple effects across the conductive paste industry: big paste suppliers actively started to develop nascent markets that ...
Precision tapered dispense tip
Fisnar Europe has announced two newly developed Precision Tapered Dispense Tips said to be ideal for use in medical devices and industrial electronics manufacture. The first of these new dispense tips is a standard 27 gauge, while the second is a 30 gauge tip with an internal diameter of just 0.15mm.
Corrosion Protection at iTanks 2017
Cortec's European distributor, Presserv and its Tank Brigade division were invited by iTanks in Rotterdam to present a paper on the subject of corrosion protection for soil-side corrosion to tank floors in Above Ground Storage Tanks, (AST’s).
Self-assembly technique could lead to smaller microchip patterns
For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their microchips ever smaller, in order to fit more of them onto a single chip and thus continue the relentless progress toward faster and more powerful computers. That progress has become more difficult recently, as manufacturing processes bump up against fundamental limits involving, for example, the wavelengths of...