Arrow Asia Pac Ltd has signed a distribution agreement with Diodes Incorporated, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. The agreement is an extension to Diodes’ long-term partnership with Arrow Electronics.

Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) has been awarded a contract by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) to provide customised forward command vehicles (FCV) with state-of-the-art communication and electronics systems.

The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) NSW Chapter has announced it will establish a permanent home in the ACT for its NSW-based Group Training Company.

Powerbox Australia has launched a new website to showcase its wide range of products and services.

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Laird Technologies, a global manufacturer of electromagnetic interference (EMI) solutions that serve the telecommunications, data communications, computer, general electronics, network equipment, aerospace, defence, automotive, and medical equipment markets.

MooreHawke and Emerson Process Management have signed an Alliance Agreement to co-market MooreHawke fieldbus interface solutions through Emerson's worldwide sales network.

The market for printed and organic sensors will reach $2.3 billion by 2015, according to a study by NanoMarkets LC. The report is the next in the firm's ongoing coverage of thin film, organic and printed electronics.

Mouser Electronics has expanded its distribution agreement with Meder Electronic to include the global marketplace.

To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon - a process called doping. It is these impurities that enable electricity to flow through the semiconductor and allow designers to control the electronic properties of the material.

Although the lithium-ion cells you see in laptops and mobile phones pack twice as much energy per pound as the next-best kind, they haven't found their way into hybrid cars because they're worryingly prone to fires.

Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm in the event of high pressure in the eye, bladder or brain.

Like crowds of people, microscopic particles can act in concert under the right conditions. By exposing crowd behaviour at the atomic scale, scientists discover new states and properties of matter.

Silicon is an important material for electronic chips and processors, but it has a big drawback: as an indirect semiconductor, it hardly emits any light.

Trio Smartcal has a new role as the distributor for Agilent Technologies for Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic and Tas. Also covered will be defence accounts in SA. Trio Smartcal will sell Agilent’s ‘basic instrument’ range of general-purpose test and measurement products.

For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes - single-atom defects in the crystal - they're killers, according to researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.