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| Understanding Shielded Cable
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| By Chet Socha, Senior Product Engineer, Alpha Wire, Elizabeth, NJ Industrial areas such as the factory floor are typically electrically noisy environments. Electrical noise, either radiated or conducted as electromagnetic interference (EMI), can seriously disrupt the proper operation of other equipment. Insulation protects a cable mechanically from ... 
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| Increased Accuracy and Speed with Piezo Dispensing
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| By Terry Dunbar, Application Development Manager, Nordson EFD, East Providence, RI As today's mobile devices continue to get smaller and thinner, the amount of space available for securing components and subassemblies is steadily decreasing. In response, many  
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| Combating the Counterfeit Component Epidemic
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| By Dawn Gluskin, CEO, SolTec Electronics, Rockledge, FL If you're involved with electrical manufacturing and the procurement, planning, or processing of board-level components, you already know what a complex, crazy, and intense world this can be.  
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| A User's Guide to BGA Reballing
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| By Tim Hoffman, President, HEPCO, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Reballing — it's a simple idea — just put those little spheres back on component pads. But the reality is that it can be very simple process or as annoying as keeping your Buffalo, NY driveway snow-free throughout December — an impossible task.  
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| New Materials Boost Supercapacitors
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| By Bill Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, Nanotecture Ltd, Southampton, UK One product sector which has advanced rapidly in recent years is that of Supercapacitors (also known as Ultracapacitors), driven by the development of new materials and lower-cost manufacturing. Supercapacitors exhibit a number of characteristics that place them well above conventional ... 
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