News tagged with printed circuit

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

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

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

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

Jell-O lab-on-a-chip devices to spark interest in science careers

With "hands-on" experiences in childhood and adolescence having sparked so many science careers, scientists in Canada are describing a quick, simple, safe, and inexpensive way for kids to participate in making ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Electronics from the printer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic systems designed to perform simple functions, such as monitor the temperature on a yogurt pot, mustn’t cost much: This is where printed electronics are at an advantage. Researchers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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

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

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

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