Xantrex distributor appointed
02 October, 2005
NewTek Instruments has been appointed distributors for Xantrex Technology, a power electronics company.
Components firms merge
29 September, 2005
Arrow Asia Pacific has acquired the component distribution business of Connektron.
Fans keep their cool with ceramics
05 August, 2005 | Supplied by: WES Australasia
DC type cooling fans are essential for many different types of cooling applications, but they do have a relatively short life expectancy when used on products that are designed to operate continuously in hot or hostile environments
Strip materials
03 August, 2005 | Supplied by: http://www.sandvik.com/
Sandvik has introduced its latest product form and launched a range of surface engineered stainless steel strip materials.
Controller IC
06 July, 2005 | Supplied by: International Rectifier
International Rectifier has introduced the IR5001S universal, high-speed controller/n-channel power MOSFET driver for high-performance, active ORing circuits.
Plant-life inspires cooling system
27 April, 2005
Cambridge Consultants in Britain has produced its 'evaporative cooler' concept design for cooling the fuel cell-powered notebook computers of the future.
Semiconductor spin-off
16 December, 2004
The CSIRO ICT Centre has completed the spin-off of its compound semiconductor technologies to EpiTactix. EpiTactix has secured $5.2 million in start-up funding and support from a syndicate of investors, including the CSIRO and an AusIndustry R&D Start Grant.
Wurth components catalogue
15 November, 2004 | Supplied by: http://www.westek.com.au/
Würth Elektronik EMC/RF components and connectors are now available in Australia and New Zealand through Westek Electronics.
Vacancies may lead to atomic circuits
05 November, 2004
David Muller, assoc prof of applied and engineering physics, inserts a sample into the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) in his Duffield Hall laboratory
Scaling friction down to the nano/micro realm
01 June, 2004
An improved method for correcting nano- and micro-scale friction measurements has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new technique should help designers produce more durable micro- and nano-devices with moving parts, such as tiny motors, positioning devices or encoders.
Electronic advances - the transparent transistor
01 June, 2004
Engineers at Oregon State University have created what is claimed to be the first transparent transistor, a see-through electronics component that could open the door to many new products.
X-rays keep an eye on components
12 May, 2004
A MyData surface mount assembly line and a three-dimensional x-ray inspection system are giving Christchurch electronics manufacturer GPC Electronics (NZ) an edge over rival companies.
Burning issue facing chip and computer designers
26 April, 2004
Chip designers, computer makers, researchers and specialists are uniting to tackle one of the most urgent, but overlooked, for the global semiconductor industry: the soaring densities of heat on integrated circuits, particularly high-performance microprocessors.
Another twist in the field of superconductivity
24 March, 2004
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behaviour in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides (or cuprates), which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.
Superconductors at a stretch
19 March, 2004
Research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology suggests that next-generation, high-temperature superconductor wire can withstand more mechanical strain than originally thought.
