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The VJ Electronix Micra re- work system stars at the company’s NEPCON China booth. See multi-show prod- uct preview section starting on . . . .
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Siemens Mfg. Uses KIC
Siemens Manufacturing Co. near St. Louis, MO, in provid- ing everything to everyone, relies on KIC profiling to re- set ovens quickly and accu- rately for job changeovers with minimum downtime, while satisfying the most de- manding customers.
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New disposable materials path technology will reduce the risk of damage, decrease maintenance costs and en- able more widespread use of diaphragm valves; robotic soldering of precision compo- nents; new frontiers in bat- tery technology; and safe- guarding commercial aircraft from damaging lightning strikes.
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Konrad Lehnert of NIST with the cryogenic enclosure and lab setup for the quantum information converter.
New Ways to Make Glass-to-Metal Seals
Albuquerque, NM — Components housed in stainless steel for protec- tion against extreme environments encountered in the aerospace and de- fense industries require paths for electricity to power and communi- cate with them. Those paths in turn need a reliable insulation seal to pre- vent contact with the metal case that could short out the power and com-
munication lines. Typically, material used to iso-
late electrical paths is either glass or a glass-ceramic composite. Work by Steve Dai, principal investigator for a project on bonding glass-ceramic to stainless steel, aims to develop fun- damental science in materials and processing for high performance and high reliability glass-ceramic-to-met- al seals. That scientific foundation then could be used in designing, de- veloping and manufacturing next- generation seals. Dai’s team filed a provisional
patent application in November for interfacial bonding oxides for glass- ceramic-to-metal seals. A durable seal needs a strong chemical bond between the glass-ce-
Continued on page 6 THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION May, 2016
Quantum Information Transfer: From Microwaves to Motion to Light
Gaithersburg, MD — When a long-awaited quantum in- formation network finally arrives, in whatever form, it will incorporate two essential technologies: a method of generating and manipulating quantum bits (qubits); and
a method of moving those qubits from one network node to another one far away without destroying their fragile quantum states. Each method, however, will likely require a very dif- ferent physical process — the quan- tum equivalent of composing a mes- sage in English on a typewriter but then sending it by radio in another language, without human interven- tion.
For example, qubits can be cre-
ated and controlled dependably by using extremely cold superconduct- ing circuits with electrical outputs at microwave frequencies. But the best way to send those qubits with high fi- delity over significant distances is to encode them in light at hundreds of terahertz and move them over fiber- optic lines at ambient temperatures. “We are faced with a major chal-
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PCB Book to Bill Ratio Climbs to 1.04
Bannockburn, IL — IPC – Associa- tion Connecting Electronics Indus- tries® has released the January 2016 findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Sales and orders slumped in January, but or- ders continued to outpace sales, bringing the book-to-bill ratio up to 1.04.
Total North American PCB
shipments declined 1.6 percent in January 2016 compared to January 2015. Compared to December 2015, January 2015 shipments were down 19.2 percent. PCB bookings fell 3.4 percent
below the level of January 2015. Or- ders in January 2016 were down 14.3 percent from the previous month. “Historically, January is a slow
month for the PCB industry,” said Sharon Starr, IPC’s director of mar- ket research. “Although sales and or- ders in January were slightly below last year’s levels, orders continued to outpace sales, which brought the book-to-bill ratio back into positive territory. The ratio’s brief decline in- to negative territory near the end of last year is consistent with the cur- rent weak start to the new year,” she added, “but the return to positive ra- tios indicates the likelihood that slow growth will resume in 2016.” r
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