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  • CASE STUDY: Development of a RoHS-Compliant Ultra-High-Strength Copper-Based Alloy

    Engineers have been trying for years to massively reduce the lead content in copper-based alloys to comply with RoHS. Learn how a new lead-reduced Emery Low Lead alloy tested in various industrial fields of application and manufacturing processes. Article contributed by Dr. Andreas Frehn, Materion Brush GmbH, Germany, and Mike Gedeon and John Nickell, bothRead More

  • Meet the Cable — NDT Cables

    NDT cable is a shielded coaxial or multiconductor cable assembly that connects ultrasonic, eddy current, and phased array probes to non-destructive testing (NDT) instruments, carrying high-voltage excitation pulses to the probe and returning low-level echo or impedance signals to the receiver. It is built to stay flexible and electrically quiet through constant handling, scanner motion,Read More

Technology

Power Connectors: Taking the Heat

September 4, 2012 – The power connector segment has experienced an extreme makeover in both product and philosophy, and is now much better aligned with the needs of current and next-generation equipment designers. What does the future hold?

Wireless Technologies Drive Use of Mobile Devices in Healthcare

 

August 2012 – The medical ecosystem used to be a device, a patient, and a physician. But thanks to electronic health records, consumer platforms, and cloud computing, all that is changing. Connected devices, many of them wireless, are changing this rapidly evolving field. Here’s a look at the present and future of mobile devices in the healthcare field.

A Peek Under The High-Speed Hood

August 2012 -What new developments are coming up in high-speed train design, and what role will cable and interconnect devices play? Here’s a look inside this fast-moving market.

 

Renaissance of the Edge Connector

The venerable card edge connector has been a mainstay interface that has served the electronics industry for many years by solving critical packaging challenges of complex electronic equipment. Early devices often utilized masses of discrete hand-soldered wires between subassemblies, a process that added cost and complexity, introduced error, and made repair difficult. The industry neededRead More

Nickel Underplates: Then and Now

August 7, 2012 – Nickel is the underplate material of choice and has been such since the late ’70s. Here’s a look at its history — and at its pros and cons.

 

Ethernet Evolution: To 100 Gb/s and Beyond

Since its development in the early 1970s, Ethernet has constantly evolved to support emerging demands of local area computer networks. Ethernet originally used a shared coaxial cable as its communication media, but migrated to unshielded twisted-pair, point-to-point links that increased bandwidth as well as reach from local area networks (LANs) to wide area networks (WANs).Read More

Analysis of the World’s Top 100 Electronic Connector Manufacturers
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