Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Laird Technologies, a global manufacturer of electromagnetic interference (EMI) solutions that serve the telecommunications, data communications, computer, general electronics, network equipment, aerospace, defence, automotive, and medical equipment markets.

MooreHawke and Emerson Process Management have signed an Alliance Agreement to co-market MooreHawke fieldbus interface solutions through Emerson's worldwide sales network.

The market for printed and organic sensors will reach $2.3 billion by 2015, according to a study by NanoMarkets LC. The report is the next in the firm's ongoing coverage of thin film, organic and printed electronics.

Mouser Electronics has expanded its distribution agreement with Meder Electronic to include the global marketplace.

To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon - a process called doping. It is these impurities that enable electricity to flow through the semiconductor and allow designers to control the electronic properties of the material.

Although the lithium-ion cells you see in laptops and mobile phones pack twice as much energy per pound as the next-best kind, they haven't found their way into hybrid cars because they're worryingly prone to fires.

Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm in the event of high pressure in the eye, bladder or brain.

Like crowds of people, microscopic particles can act in concert under the right conditions. By exposing crowd behaviour at the atomic scale, scientists discover new states and properties of matter.

Silicon is an important material for electronic chips and processors, but it has a big drawback: as an indirect semiconductor, it hardly emits any light.

Trio Smartcal has a new role as the distributor for Agilent Technologies for Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic and Tas. Also covered will be defence accounts in SA. Trio Smartcal will sell Agilent’s ‘basic instrument’ range of general-purpose test and measurement products.

For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes - single-atom defects in the crystal - they're killers, according to researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Startronics has merged with Sanmina’s Australian operations. Startronics is owned by Pacific Equity Partners and Allen Capital Private Equity and is a leader in electronics manufacturing in Australia. Sanmina is a global electronics manufacturer listed on NASDAQ.

Elgato Systems has announced a distribution agreement with Conexus, a specialist distributor of multimedia technologies for the Macintosh.

Fluke Australia has announced three new distribution agreements. The newly formed Testing Equipment Solutions (TES) has been appointed the distributor of Fluke precision measurement instruments in Queensland, while NSW distribution will be handled by IPI. Triple Point Calibration (TPC) will service Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Nextreme has developed a miniature, thin film thermoelectric generator (TEG) that converts heat directly into electricity.