News tagged with flexible printed circuit

Conserving resources: Producing circuit boards with plasma

There is a large growth market for flexible circuits, RFID antennas and biosensors on films. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST are presenting a new technology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 31 feature




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Wearable electronics - the next fashion fad?

(Phys.org) -- When most of us think of electronics, we think of the sturdy stability of silicon and plastic. Flexibility is a trait that belongs to the organic world, where materials come in all shapes and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New ultra-thin electronic films have greater capacity

(Phys.org) -- The development of a new combination of polymers associating sugars with oil-based macromolecules makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization with a 5-nanometer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Textile-based cardiac sensors integrated into conventional sports bra and vest

An interdisciplinary team of engineers at the University of Arkansas has developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers critical patient information, regardless of the patient’s location, ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plastic electronics: a neat solution

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How to corner the MEMS market

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Space foil helping to build safer cars

A special foil sensor developed to measure the pressure on a spaceplane’s wings during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere is now helping to build safer cars.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NEC goes ultra-thin with 0.3mm-thick batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC, which has been working on what is called "organic radical battery" (ORB) technology for some years, has announced its latest ORB breakthrough, the 0.3mm thick ORB. According to Geek.co ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Glowing White: Solvent-free luminescent organic liquids for organic electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The future will be dominated by organic electronics, as opposed to current silicon-based technology. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an international team of researchers has now introduced a new ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New generation of flexible graphene transistors

Making electronic components using graphene, a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of today's major technological challenges. Researchers hope to harness the outstanding electron mobility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Building Vega meant testing materials to their limits

When the first of Europe’s Vega rockets thundered skywards on 13 February, it was a new design based on some novel materials. Such novelty called for rigorous technical risk management by ESA’s materials ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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