SMB Bearings helps Soundlock Engineering repair vintage tape recorders

Established in London, Soundlock Engineering repairs, services and refurbishes old sound equipment. The company was recently challenged with refurbishing two Studer A800’s, tape machines introduced in 1978. Upon investigation of these broken machines, it was clear the ball bearings used needed replacing. To repair tape machines of this type, engineers need to heat parts up ...

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MACOM’s 10W GaN-on-Si power amp module now at Mouser

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the MAMG-100227-010C0L broadband power amplifier module from MACOM. The module is designed for radio and communications applications, including military tactical communications and electronic countermeasures, wireless public safety communications, and land mobile radio systems. The MACOM MAMG-100227-010C0L is a 10W power amplifier module based on gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology. Operating in ...

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Cardiff University claims photodiode noise and sensitivity record

Aluminium arsenide tin avalanche photodiodes (APDs) could beat InP/InAlAs types for noise and sensitivity at speed, according to researchers at Cardiff University. “Our work to develop low excess noise and high sensitivity avalanche photodiodes has the potential to yield a new class of high-performance receivers for applications in networking and sensing,” said Cardiff chair in ...

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Cardiff researchers create low noise compound avalanche diode

Cardiff University researchers from the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) worked with collaborators to innovate an ultrafast and highly sensitive ‘avalanche photodiode’ (APD) that creates less electronic ‘noise’ than its silicon rivals. APDs are highly sensitive semiconductor devices that exploit the ‘photoelectric effect’ – when light hits a material – to convert light to electricity. Faster, ...

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Q1 EDA revenues up 16.3% y-o-y

Q1 EDA  revenue was up  16.3% y-o-y at $2.6 billion, says to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance. “The EDA industry overall reported double digit increased revenue in Q1 compared to Q1 2018, with all categories, except services, reporting double digit increases,” says Wally Rhines (pictured) CEO Emeritus of Mentor and a member of the ...

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Moscow researchers reveal monolayer phase in organic semiconductor

A team of researchers from Russia, Germany, and France featuring materials scientists from the Moscow Institute of Science and Technology (pictured) has investigated how the electrical properties of dihexyl-quaterthiophene thin films depend on their structure. This material is an organic semiconductor with prospects for flexible electronics. It turned out that once the thin films undergo ...

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