Articles Technology of Electronic Components

Thomas Weiss, Nexperia In 1969 the first device housed in the breakthrough SOT23 plastic surface mount package rolled off the assembly line. Last year Nexperia alone shipped over 30 billion SOT23 packaged devices. These two facts highlight a key ...

Bill Schweber A wearable millimeter-sized accelerometer functions as a microphone to capture the vibrations created by heart and lung functions, thus providing additional physiological data. Electronics for “personal” medical devices is ...

National University of Singapore Game-changing technology maximises lifetime and enables smaller, cheaper IoT devices The Internet of Things (IoT), while still in its infancy, is shaping the future of many industries and will also impact our daily ...

Dexter Johnson IEEE Spectrum Whether they’re for sensors in artificial skin that demands flexibility or for wearable electronics where the circuits must withstand our sweat, silicon-based chips aren’t always up to the task. Now, an ...

Suzanne Deffree EDN ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally announced on February 15, 1946. ENIAC had been heavily veiled before its first announcement, although its ...

Brian Benchoff Hackaday For almost forty years, integrated circuits have become smaller and smaller. These chips started out with massive transistors in the early 1970s. They shrank to less than 1 um by 1990, and shrank yet again to less than 100 ...

Richard F. Zarr, Texas Instruments Electronic Design Quantum cellular automate (QCA) shows great promise in succeeding CMOS for logic used to fabricate digital integrated circuits. By 2025, it may be the primary means used to fabricate the engines ...

With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout We've all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access to an electrical ...