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The Dymax Multi-Cure 9451 is a true black and opaque conformal coating from Intertronics that enhances security of electronic products by covering the printed circuit board and components, hiding them from visual inspection. This is an effective barrier to loss of confidentiality and possible copying or reverse engineering of proprietary designs, in addition to its ability to improve circuit reliability in harsh conditions.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have created an imaging technique that allows scientists to probe the internal makeup of a battery during charging and discharging using different x-ray energies while rotating the battery cell. The technique produces a 3D chemical map and lets the scientists track chemical reactions in the battery over time in working conditions. Their work is published in Nature Commu...

The Civil Status and Passports Department (CSPD) in Jordan has chosen NXP’s secure SmartMX2 MCU for its new contactless citizen ID card. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT) anticipates deploying the SmartMX2-based Jordanian ID cards to increase national security, improve counterfeit protection and extend public services.

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a way of using mid-infrared lasers to turn regions of molecules in the open air into glowing filaments of electrically charged gas, or plasma. The method could make it possible to carry out remote environmental monitoring to detect a wide range of chemicals with high sensitivity. The system makes use of a mid-infrared ultra-fast pulsed laser system to generate the filaments, whose colors can reveal the ...

Recent years have been a golden age for MEMS markets, with large, increasing volumes driven by consistent smart phone shipment growth. “We have now entered more uncertain times,” announces Yole Développement. The market for smart phones/portable applications is levelling out, meaning MEMS markets are growing more slowly than in previous years.Today, CAGR from 2015-2021 for the value of MEMS markets will be 8.9%, moving from $11...

The rise of fingerprint sensors in mobile phones has brought biometric security to the masses, with a brand new technology set to make it even more secure, writes Sally Ward-Foxton.

A revolutionary new type of laser developed by the University of Adelaide is promising major advances in remote sensing of greenhouse gases. Published in the journal Optics Letters, a research team from the University of Adelaide and Macquarie University has shown that the new laser can operate over a large range within the infrared light spectrum.

With an eye toward improving cybersecurity, a Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences student developed a mobile app-based authentication system that enables users to log in to websites using a characteristic that is impossible to forget: their fingerprint. Nicholas Boucher, a computer science concentrator, and three teammates recently won the Cambridge University Hack-a-thon Cybersecurity Challenge for their app, Clear...

Researchers are using the same principle to identify devices on electrical grid control networks, using their unique electronic "voices" - fingerprints produced by the devices' individual physical characteristics - to determine which signals are legitimate and which signals might be from attackers.A similar approach could also be used to protect networked industrial control systems in oil and gas refineries, manufacturing facilities, wastewater t...

Traditional fingerprint identification by pressing or rolling of finger against the hard surface often results in partial or degraded images due to improper finger placement, skin deformation, slippages, or smearing. Therefore touchless 3D finger imaging can provide more accurate personal identification as rich information is available from 3D fingerprint images.