Miniaturised devices like smart-phones have now reached the mass consumer market, but when first introduced, manufacturing costs for low volumes can keep innovative products from taking off.

Releasing a product with bugs is potentially very expensive, especially considering the cost of field upgrades, recalls and repairs. Less quantifiable, but at least equally important, is the damage done to reputation and consequent loss of customer goodwill.

Solar or photovoltaic cells represent one of the best possible technologies for providing an absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible source of energy to power our civilization.

Microchips are found in every modern electronic device from mobile phones to kitchen appliances. But as users demand more processing power on an ever smaller scale, bulky chips mounted on printed circuit boards are running out of room.

Testing the effect of electromagnetic fields on humans to find out if CFLs are safe to use. [ + ]

Probably no other issue generates more discussion or confusion in the electrical market than how to correctly implement a redundant power supply system.

Rugged connectors are meeting the rapidly changing requirements of the modern motor vehicle platform. Today’s vehicles are heading into new territory, due to smart and adaptable interconnect products.

Researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical patterns as small as 20 nm.

Rapidly falling prices in the first half of this year have been unable to stimulate the faltering European photovoltaic market, according to the latest Solarbuzz European PV Markets report.

This article takes an in-depth look at the role connectors play in the modern rail system.

By nestling quantum dots in an insulating egg-crate structure, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have demonstrated a new architecture for quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs).

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it comes to lowering the cost and extending the range of electric cars. To do that, batteries need to store a lot more energy.

PCB board design is often governed by established cost aspects. If a designer comes up with an EMC-proof design (in theory difficult, if not impossible to achieve without actually testing it as a product), they are likely to hear that it’s going to be expensive to lay it out according to their wishes.

Power module packaging is driven by the ever-increasing demand for higher power densities, reliability improvements and further cost reductions.

If you work with high-speed serial links such as PCIe, USB, SATA, Infiniband or gigabit ethernet, you have encountered S-parameters. This method of describing the electrical properties of interconnects, standard in the microwave world for more than 60 years, is becoming the de facto standard in the high-speed digital world as well.