News tagged with printed circuit board

Recyclable printed circuit boards

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), along with partners In2Tec Ltd (UK) and Gwent Electronic Materials Ltd, have developed a printed circuit board (PCB) whose components can be easily separated by immersion in hot water. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Using imprint processing to mass-produce tiny antennas could improve wireless electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to mass-produce antennas so small that they approach the fundamental minimum size limit for their bandwidth, or data ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

Magnetic ceramics films for smaller transformers

Siemens is developing magnetic ceramic films so that the high-performance electronic circuits used in lighting systems and other such devices can be made smaller and much easier to manufacture. This type of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Battery embedded in circuit board demonstrated at Tokyo exhibition

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking to the future of powering mobile devices, Japanese company Oki Printed Circuits recently demonstrated a prototype of a 0.8-mm-thick printed circuit board embedded with a 170-μm-thick ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Strength through diversity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0