Component Management

Switchtec’s range of sealing products enable manufacturers, installers and those in maintenance to upgrade bare cable connections into waterproof types. Manufactured by Arnocanali, the product range includes gels and sealing pastes that can render a simple, unsealed junction box to become rated to IP68.

Master Bond MasterSil 151TC was developed to improve thermal management for electronic assemblies in bonding and gap filling applications. This 100% solids silicone compound features excellent thermal conductivity and superior electrical insulation properties. Volume resistivity is >1014 ohm-cm.

The tenth edition of LOPEC will take place in Munich during March 2018. The two-day exhibition (March 14–15) and three-day conference (March 13–15) will provide attendees and delegates with the perfect opportunity to keep right up to date with all the latest developments in printed electronics. LOPEC is unique in providing visitors and delegates with the chance to see and discuss every aspect of printed electronics as it covers t...

Conductive polymers from the Heraeus Clevios line reduce the sheet resistance on flexible and foldable touchscreens by more than 50%. This considerably improves conductivity and transmission for ultra-thin conductive display layers. Clevios HY E has thus become a key material for stably and reliably producing the next generation of foldable displays and smartphones. Heraeus will present this innovation at C-Touch in Shenzhen.

Devices depend highly on novel materials with tailored function. A comprehensive spectroscopic analysis toolkit will shed light on the properties of a variety of materials across a broad energy range, streamlining the effort. Nanomaterials are increasingly important to new devices and, thanks to rapid advances in microscopy and spectroscopy, characterising electronic, magnetic and crystallographic structure on the nanoscale is now possible.

Packing densities increase on ever smaller electronic assemblies due to technical requirements and possibilities. Accordingly, the requirements imposed on soldering these components become all the more stringent because, for instance, sensitive components have to be protected from great heat effects. Pinpoint-accurate, fast, and definable soldering is necessary. Therefore, EUTECT has been using diode lasers for its customised soldering systems.

Water- and dirt-repellent sportswear and outdoor clothing, or anti-fog windshields - there are many everyday products that can profit from highly hydrophobic coatings. For such coatings, researchers led by Dr. Bastian E. Rapp at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have created Fluoropor, a material that is both transparent and abrasion-resistant and that consists of a fluorinated polymer foam with continuous nano/micro-structure. Fluoropor is...

Heraeus Electronics showed its range of no-clean soldering pastes with a low melting point at productronica this week. The new F498 product series is said to allow significant cost savings in the soldering process. The soldering pastes are characterized by a low void rate and outstanding wetting properties on a wide range of different surfaces. This reduces the formation of solder balls (mid-chip balling). 

For the first time, engineers at Caltech have created a stable ring of plasma in open air—essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle. Matter can exist in four distinct phases: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Plasmas are made of charged particles—ions and electrons—and occur naturally on Earth as lightning, in the weather phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire, and in man-made objects such as fluorescent ...

KYZEN has announced that it was awarded a 2017 Global Technology Award in the category of Cleaning Equipment for the KYZEN ANALYST. The award was presented to the company during a ceremony that took place during productronica in Munich, Germany. Launched in the fall of 2016, the KYZEN ANALYST received instant acceptance and broad adoption, closely followed by now three industry awards for innovation for its breakthrough features and technology.