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Conformal Coating THE GLOBAL HI-TECH ELECTRONICS PUBLICATION March, 2019
Hanwha Launches Modular Component Mounters at APEX
Cypress, CA — Hanwha, formerly Samsung C&T Automation, commem- orated the induction of its HM520
modular component mounter at a rib- bon cutting ceremony that took place Tuesday, January 29, at IPC APEX
Expo in San Diego, California. The MH520 modular mounter was also given a prestigious NPI award at the show in the category of “Component Placement — High-Speed.” “Hanwha’s HM520 advanced
modular component mounter deliv- ers industry-leading price-perform- ance with unprecedented low costs of operation and ownership,” comment- ed Jonny Nichols, director of sales
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Jonny Nichols, director of sales and marketing —North America, Hanwha (center), gives a speech to celebrate Hanwha’s brand-new HM520 modular component mounter.
Sustainable 3D-Printed Electronic IoT Sensors
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada — Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Swiss researchers are developing an eco-friendly, 3D-printable solution for producing wireless Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that can be used and disposed of, without con- taminating the environment. Their research was published in the jour- nal Advanced Electronic Materials. SFU professor Woo Soo Kim is
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leading the research team’s discov- ery involving the use of a wood-de- rived cellulose material to replace the plastics and polymeric materials currently used in electronics. Addi- tionally, 3D printing can offer the flexibility to add or embed functions onto 3D shapes or textiles, creating greater functionality. “Our eco-friendly 3D printed
cellulose sensors can wirelessly transmit data during their life, and
then can be disposed without con- cern of environmental contamina- tion,” says Kim, a professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engi-
Keener Eyesight for Autonomous Vehicles
Cambridge, MA — Autonomous vehi- cles relying on light-based image sen- sors often struggle to see through blinding conditions, such as fog. But MIT researchers have developed a sub-terahertz-radiation receiving sys- tem that could help steer driverless cars when traditional methods fail. Sub-terahertz wavelengths,
Professor Woo Soo Kim holds an eco-friendly, 3D-printed circuit that uses a wood-derived cellu-
lose material to replace plastics and polymeric materials.
neering at SFU’s Surrey campus. The research is being carried out at PowerTech Labs in Surrey, which houses several state-of-the-art 3D printers used by researchers. “This development will help to
advance green electronics. The waste from printed circuit boards is a haz- ardous source of contamination to the environment. If we are able to change the plastics in PCB to cellu- lose composite materials, recycling of metal components on the board could
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which are between microwave and in- frared radiation on the electromagnet- ic spectrum, can be detected through fog and dust clouds with ease, where the infrared-based LiDAR imaging systems used in autonomous vehicles struggle. To detect objects, a sub-tera- hertz imaging system sends an initial signal through a transmitter; a receiv- er then measures the absorption and reflection of the rebounding sub-tera- hertz wavelengths. That sends a sig- nal to a processor, which recreates an image of the object. But, implementing sub-terahertz
sensors into driverless cars is chal- lenging. Sensitive, accurate object- recognition requires a strong output baseband signal from receiver to processor. Traditional systems, made of discrete components that produce such signals, are large and expensive. Smaller, on-chip sensor arrays exist, but they produce weak signals. In a paper published in the
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Cir- cuits, the researchers describe a 2D, sub-terahertz receiving array that is orders of magnitude more sensitive, meaning it can better capture and in- terpret sub-terahertz wavelengths in the presence of a lot of signal noise.
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