Arguably the greatest engineering challenge in quantum computing is addressing these systems’ predilection for errors. Now, a new study from scientists from Australia and Poland says that creating a ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, ...

Printed-circuit boards (PC boards or PCBs) are literally the foundation of many of our electronic products. These copper-clad boards – often but not always using glass-epoxy FR-4 substrate, but ...

Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board without desoldering it. [Zeyu Yan] et al seem to have had ...

Ugonna Victor Emeka-Inegbu spent part of his summer helping a Wisconsin manufacturer build a better welder thanks to a journey that started with a trip through a registered student organization.

Printed-circuit-boards present significant test-and-measurement challenges as complexity and performance increase and components shrink. Traditional in-circuit testers and flying probers have a role ...

Space savings, greater reliability, low mass, and high ductility are some of the advantages offered by flexible PCBs, but designers must also prepare for their complexity. Flexible printed circuit ...

Tossed circuit boards are about 20% copper, a much larger fraction than the roughly half a percent in copper ore mined from the ground. That percentage, plus the growing mounds of global electronic ...

Test engineers struggle to find the optimum balance between printed-circuit-board (PCB) cost and test coverage. Low coverage leads to excessive field returns, warranty replacements, and even lawsuits.