Office opens in Sydney
15 October, 2007
CrispTech has announced the opening of a Sydney office, which will give the company a much greater ability to support the NSW marketplace with industrial communications products.
Data converters added to portfolio
09 October, 2007
Mouser Electronics has expanded its portfolio of new data converters from Texas Instruments.
Rising demand for compound semiconductors
09 October, 2007
RF Micro Devices has announced plans to expand its compound semiconductor manufacturing capacity to support growth expectations in the company's cellular and multi-market product groups.
Distribution agreement expanded for global reach
05 October, 2007
Mouser Electronics has announced its distribution agreement with Meder electronic has expanded to include the global marketplace.
Arrow Asia Pac Ltd distribution agreement
04 October, 2007
Arrow Asia Pac Ltd has signed a distribution agreement with Diodes Incorporated, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. The agreement is an extension to Diodes’ long-term partnership with Arrow Electronics.
Technique may speed development of molecular electronics
18 September, 2007
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.
Tiny antenna delivers high performance in ISM bands
10 September, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.clarke.com.au
Antenna Factor's WRT Series antenna is suited to applications that require an unobtrusive, tamper-resistant antenna solution, such as wireless vending, security, traffic or power equipment.
Switchable two-colour light source on a silicon chip
06 September, 2007
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.
Speed bumps less important than potholes for graphene
03 September, 2007
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.
Merger announced
30 August, 2007
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.
Thin film TEG harvests and converts waste heat into electricity
22 August, 2007
Nextreme has developed a miniature, thin film thermoelectric generator (TEG) that converts heat directly into electricity.
USA-based distributor opens in Sydney
06 August, 2007
Newark, distributor of electronic components in America, has announced the launch of its operation based in Sydney, Australia.
New particle charges cuprate superconductor theory
02 August, 2007
New fundamental particles aren't found only in particle accelerators, but can also be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, according to scientists at the University of Illinois in the US.
Chemists close in on molecular switch
31 July, 2007
The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules.
Division rebranded
27 July, 2007
Mitsubishi Electric Australia signalled a new direction for its digital electronics business with the announcement that the division will be rebranded as Visual Information Systems (VIS).