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The synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene AKA Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and its analogues are strongly hydrophobic and having low surface energies of less than 18 dyn/cm are perhaps best-known for their non-stick properties. This low surface energy along with PTFE’s high electrical insulating properties can make sputter coating with noble metals prior to SEM a real challenge. Not anymore. Image courtesy of...

This question is of interest to many manufacturers today. Why? Because more of them are making high precision, small-scale components that are critical to the function of a host of end products. A company’s livelihood may mandate that the components they use in their products are uniform, definable, and "high-precision". This is where an understanding of smoothness is helpful. So...

The Resolv4K modular video microscope system has been designed for superior visible wavelength axial color correction; but did you know about our VIS-NIR (Visible through Near Infrared) and SWIR options? The coating choices and design efficiency make this system the ideal SWIR camera complement for use applications such as: SWIR MicroscopySemiconductor AnalysisThrough Silicon ImagingPCB InspectionSolar Cell InspectionSpectrometryForensicsChemical AnalysisResearch SWIR and Vis-NIR options...

The EMScanner provides board-level design teams with world-leading fast magnetic very-near-field data to help diagnose EMC design challenges. The instrument captures and displays visual images of spectral and real-time spatial scan results in seconds. PCB designers can now scan any board to identify both constant and time based emission sources in the range of 150kHz to 8GHz. This report provides...

Cell culturing is a common technique used in biology to carefully grow a specific type of cell. Great care is taken to maintain sterile conditions when preparing cell cultures. They are typically prepared in a sterile, vented hood with materials that have all been disinfected before use. Cell cultures are then carefully placed in an incubator to maintain a sterile...

If you require multiple signals for characterising components such as amplifiers, mixers and ADC’s or want to drive multiple LO’s with excellent phase coherence for multiple antenna systems then the Tabor Lucid multi-channel Series will be the ideal product. The Benchtop version of the Lucid series offers up to 12GHz of frequency range, 4 phase coherent channels, a 5” touch...

Mark Elo, US National Sales Manager, Tabor Electronics RF and Microwave theory sits on the shoulders of Maxwell, and Hertz with the theoretical development of the connection between electricity and magnetism that started in the early 1800s. Today the use of RF and Microwave radios are ubiquitous, used by everyone every day, but still, the subject remains complex and takes...

By Joan Mercade, Field Application Engineer, Tabor Electronics New trends in RF/µW signal generation and acquisition and real-time closed-loop control for classical to quantum computing interfacing. The Classical/Quantum Interface in the figure below is implemented by the Proteus AWT (Arbitrary Waveform Transceiver). The figure below depicts how the Proteus AWT can be used to control multiple Qubits in an operational...

Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a highly-sensitive detection technique which can contribute greatly to the development of chemical and biological sensing applications in many different fields. Those fields include among others, food analysis, medical diagnosis, forensics, environmental monitoring, and even fine art preservation. Due to Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR), SERS substrates provide orders of magnitude electromagnetic enhancement in Raman...

OptoTest unveils its new solution for Insertion Loss (IL) and Return Loss (RL) testing, the OP925. As the most cost-effective IL and RL solution in the product line, the OP925 is built to measure IL, RL, and optical power for single mode or multimode patch cords with the level of ease and accuracy that OptoTest is known for.In a deviation from...