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Feature articles Page 148
Bench-top cleaning: be careful what you ask for
Bench-top cleaning: be careful what you ask for
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Bench-top cleaning is superficially very simple, yet it is a challenging industrial process. This is because the requirements for successful…
Smart city boost for the UK
Smart city boost for the UK
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Smart cities are a key element of innovation strategy in Europe, and provide key opportunities both for the development of…
Teardown: Inside the BlackBerry Z10
Teardown: Inside the BlackBerry Z10
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Building off the momentum of an international product launch in New York that featured not only a corporate re-branding and…
Driving innovation into the global automotive supply chain
Driving innovation into the global automotive supply chain
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The UK is a hot-bed of innovative automotive technology companies, spurred by a thriving motor-racing community as well as larger…

The advantages of hyperboloid contact technology
The advantages of hyperboloid contact technology
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Hypertac has been well known in the aerospace, rail and industrial markets as the company that provides the blue printed circuit board connectors incorporating the hyperboloid socket contact technology.
Readying copper cable technicians to install optical fibres
Readying copper cable technicians to install optical fibres
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The rate at which fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-office are being installed is accelerating dramatically.
Data Modul stocks Ortustech’s sunlight readable TFT modules
Data Modul stocks Ortustech’s sunlight readable TFT modules
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Data Modul now stocks Ortustech Technology's small and medium sized TFT’s from 5.6 cm (2.2”) up to 17.78 cm (7,0”) screen sizes. One key product is the 10.9 cm (4.3”)…
Active RFID systems that combine robust RF performance and low power consumption
Active RFID systems that combine robust RF performance and low power consumption
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Radio frequency identification (RFID), as an automatic wireless data collection technology, is commonly used in applications such as asset tracking, access control and inventory management.
Validating test evidence to reduce supply chain risk
Validating test evidence to reduce supply chain risk
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to meet the demand for low-cost goods, companies are increasingly buying directly from manufacturers outside the EU. While such products must bear the CE marking, this is not a sign…
“Green” pathways for test, measurement and instrumentation
“Green” pathways for test, measurement and instrumentation
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Long ago, precision electrical measurements were performed in pristine laboratory environments where ample electricity was available and time was allotted to assure extreme accuracy.
International Rectifier’s founder Eric Lidow dies at 100
International Rectifier’s founder Eric Lidow dies at 100
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Having had the privilege of working with Mr. Lidow, I know firsthand the dedication and devotion he had not only to power electronics but to those with whom he worked.
Colin Holland, Noted Tech Journalist, Dies at 59
Colin Holland, Noted Tech Journalist, Dies at 59
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Colin Holland, a longtime electronics-industry journalist who also played a leading role in organizing the technical programs of several high-profile conferences, died on Thursday in a London hospice after a…
Near field analysis for EMI/EMC
Near field analysis for EMI/EMC
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EMI/EMC characterization is essential for many electronics products. The high-speed signals may induce not only signal integrity and power integrity issues, but also cause radiation and electromagnetic interference problem.
London Calling: Are ARM’s core days numbered?
London Calling: Are ARM’s core days numbered?
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Time was when a great many companies had their own processor architectures. It was a pinnacle of electronic and semiconductor achievement and many digital engineers wanted to have a crack…
Enhanced RFID realizes its full potential
Enhanced RFID realizes its full potential
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From adding visibility to the production process, through work-in-process manufacturing techniques, to adding accountability and speed to the movement of finished products through the supply chain, RFID has already changed…
Trouble – shooting and verifying 8b/10b encoded signals with a real-time oscilloscope
Trouble – shooting and verifying 8b/10b encoded signals with a real-time oscilloscope
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Few serial technologies have become more widely adopted than 8b/10b coding, which is now used in standards like PCI-Express, Serial ATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, FireWire, MIPI M-PHY, HDMI, DisplayPort,…
Identifying UHF RFID tag design weaknesses
Identifying UHF RFID tag design weaknesses
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UHF RFID tags put on the market should all be compliant with the standard EPC gen 2. Nevertheless the performances can be very different from one tag to another. As…
Has 2012 been the year of realisation for RFID?
Has 2012 been the year of realisation for RFID?
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2012 has been a game-changing year for RFID, a year where its uses and benefits have been fully recognised across a number of vertical sectors.
Determining battery range for electro-mobility
Determining battery range for electro-mobility
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A survey of more than 5,000 motorists, carried out at TÜV SÜD service centres (that are used for periodic vehicle inspection) in co-operation with the German Technomar market research institute,…
LTE: the route to M2M success
LTE: the route to M2M success
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In isolation , M2M could not exist; it requires, by definition, a link over which two or more devices can communicate.
Here comes the next generation MEMS Oscillators: pMEMS
Here comes the next generation MEMS Oscillators: pMEMS
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Over the past several decades, quartz crystal resonators (XTAL s) and oscillators (XOs) have been used for frequency reference applications in almost all electronic systems due to their stability and…
A micro-lens array for multiple electron beam lithography tools
A micro-lens array for multiple electron beam lithography tools
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Optical lithography has been the patterning technique of choice for many decades in CMOS high volume manufacturing because of the high throughput and relatively low cost of the process compared…
Top 10 tech blunders of 2012
Top 10 tech blunders of 2012
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In a year that saw consolidation around several electronics ecosystems (think Apple), 2012 also had its share of missteps (think Apple, again). In the pages that follow, we chronicle the…
Will e-payment become Smartphone-centric?
Will e-payment become Smartphone-centric?
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This year's cartes & Identification exhibition was packed as usual, with exhibitors regrouped by their sectors of activity in the smart card industry, which made the exhibition particularly easy to…
What drove automotive electronics in 2012: The most popular stories
What drove automotive electronics in 2012: The most popular stories
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In 2012, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Automated Driving and connected vehicles dominated the headlines in the automotive electronics industry. Nevertheless, the engineers - you, our readers - preferred more in-depth…
Most popular articles in LED lighting of 2012
Most popular articles in LED lighting of 2012
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When it came to LEDs during 2012, Electronics engineers were most interested in how to power them. Also topics related to OLEDs gained high popularity. And the fact that the…
Specifying touchscreen displays for industrial applications
Specifying touchscreen displays for industrial applications
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These days, user friendly touch applications have become indispensable in consumer markets. Touchscreens are also in high demand for applications ranging from automation processes to industrial instruments and controls or…
Applying 10-point multi-touch functionality to large curved surfaces
Applying 10-point multi-touch functionality to large curved surfaces
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With more sophisticated human machine interfaces (HMIs) now being implemented in public use, retail digital signage, leisure and industrial environments, multi-touch operation is proving highly desirable beyond the consumer electronics…


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