Electronic Components Features

Powering portable medical diagnostic equipment

Powering portable medical diagnostic equipment

Digital radiography greatly benefits the healthcare industry, but it also places high demands on medical equipment manufacturers. Neil Oliver explores how smart batteries can help meet these challenges.

Second-hand EV batteries could help stabilise the power grid

Second-hand EV batteries could help stabilise the power grid

A project is bringing Bosch, the BMW Group, and Vattenfall together to take used batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) and form a large-scale energy storage system in Hamburg.

'Fingerprinting' chips are set to fight counterfeiting

'Fingerprinting' chips are set to fight counterfeiting

MIT spin-out, Verayo is taking advantage of the random variations in silicon chips and using them as authentication identifiers for consumer products.

Lifespan and the Apple expectation

Lifespan and the Apple expectation

Apple has applied for a patent to build a docking station to charge devices like the iPhone and iPad, which will retract the connector when the "iDevice" is being removed, to prevent damage to both the dock and the item. Neil Oliver reports.

Studies look at the long-term ageing of electronics in nuclear weapons

Studies look at the long-term ageing of electronics in nuclear weapons

Sandia National Laboratories is studying how environments, including radiation that originates from a nuclear weapon itself, could affect the performance of electronics in the W76-1 warhead as they age.

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