Steve Hayes, TRaC Global, Worcestershire, United Kingdom; Jack McFadden, Wyle Laboratories, Huntsville, Alabama, USA; Steve O’Steen, Advanced Compliance Solutions, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Kenneth Wyatt, Wyatt Technical Services, Woodland Park, Colorado, USA; David Zimmerman, Spectrum EMC Consulting, Eagan, Minnesota. October 2011 sees the end of the transitional period from … [Read more...]
A Comparison between Gelatinous and Tacky Coated Type Packaging Carriers
Robert J. Vermillion, RMV Technology Group, LLC, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California USA; Doug Smith, DC Smith Consultants, Los Gatos, California, USA For years, semiconductor and aerospace engineers have fielded questions regarding the suitability of using gelatinous and tacky coated packaging materials for the distribution, storage, and sale of ESD sensitive … [Read more...]
Study Shows Cell Phones Exceed Exposure Limits by Double for Children
A scholarly article on cell phone safety reports the finding that cell phones used in the shirt or pants pocket exceed FCC exposure guidelines and that children absorb twice as much microwave radiation from phones as do adults.The paper notes that the industry-designed process for evaluating microwave radiation from phones results in children absorbing twice the cell phone … [Read more...]
Precision Piezoelectric Ceramic Components
Morgan Technical Ceramics’ ElectroCeramics manufacturing site in Bedford, Ohio designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of precision piezoelectric ceramic components made of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) for use in aerospace, medical, industrial, commercial and consumer sensor and actuator applications. The company can produce intricate piezoelectric designs that meet … [Read more...]
MYTH: Will your RFID Implant Explode During an MRI?
As seen in "MythBusters: Viewer Special II. Pet Radio Frequency Identification Devices, aka RFIDs, are tiny metallic microchips encoded with the owner's contact information and possibly the pet's medical history. If your dog gets lost, a veterinarian can wave a radio wave scanner across the implantation site and access the microchip's information. Humans can also get RFID … [Read more...]
FDA Grants Approval for Lung Cancer Study
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc.’s clinical study evaluating real-time tracking of lung cancer tumors during radiation delivery. Investigators in the United States will implant three anchored Beacon® transponders in patients’ lungs and use the Calypso® System to precisely … [Read more...]
Companies Sign Extended Distribution Agreement
Murata Electronics North America has signed an agreement with TTI, Inc. to become an authorized distributor of Murata Power Solutions products. This extension brings Murata Power Solutions' product lines to a distributor that services highly targeted markets such as industrial equipment and controls, telecommunications, computing and medical equipment.Learn more from Murata. … [Read more...]
Electromagnetic Interference in the Data Center: To Shield Or Not To Shield
Jordi Ferri, Shielding, Power & Cooling Division Manager, Advanced Shielding Technologies Europe S.L. (AST), Barcelona, Spain INTRODUCTION When designing a data center, many things need to be taken in account. One of them is availability and downtime depending on desired Tier configuration (see Table 1). For Tier III and Tier IV data centers, apart from redundancy of the … [Read more...]
Multi-tone Testing Can Save Both Time and Money
Jason Smith, Manager Applications Engineering; Pat Malloy, Sr., Application Engineer; AR/RF Microwave Instrumentation, Souderton, Pennsylvania, USA Given the huge amount of time required to conduct a radiated immunity test, it is no wonder operators “dream” of ways to improve efficiency to speed up the test. The musings generally go as follows: Can one antenna cover the … [Read more...]
EMC Testing above 1 GHz: The Deadline Looms
When first mandated in the 1990s, the stated objective of the EU’s Directive governing EMC was, in broad terms, that commercial and domestic equipment, and certain industrial systems, should neither cause interference or be susceptible to interference. They should not emit radiated or conducted energy at RF frequencies and they should be immune to such emissions, within … [Read more...]
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