Assurance of the long-term availability of COTS components through specific storage methods and related risk factors

Posted by doEEEt Media Group
On August 1, 2023
0

To ensure the availability of series production or spare parts, long-term storage of critical components is nowadays inevitable. Aging processes and their risk factors for storing illustrate that simply storing the required electronic components in nitrogen dry packs is insufficient to permanently ensure their future reliability.

Alter Technology Services, ENGINEERING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

General trend of price and leadtime increases in the Semiconductor Industry

Posted by María Eugenia Turrión
On January 12, 2021
0

World Semiconductor Trade Statistics predicts that chip sales will accelerate to 8.4% growth next year, reaching $469 billion in revenue. For 2020, it estimated that chip sales would rise 5.1% to $433 billion. That’s after semiconductor industry sales fell 12% to $412 billion in 2019. Semiconductor industry sales returned to growth this year despite disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic.

EEE Components, ENDURANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL & RADIATION, PASSIVES, TESTING

ESR Degradation in Polymer Tantalum Capacitors during Hi Temp Storage

Posted by doEEEt Media Group
On December 27, 2020
0

Different types of polymer capacitors from three manufacturers have been stored at temperatures from 100 ºC for periods up to 18,500 hours to 175 ºC for up to 2000 hours.

ALTER Laboratory Services, EEE Components, Optoelectronics, PASSIVES, RF & MW

What engineering and parts logistics services for EEE parts can be performed?

Posted by Emilio Cano García
On December 11, 2020
0

As part of a comprehensive service to our customers, Alter Technology controls every phase of the product’s logistics from the manufacturer to the final delivery to the customer. The status of each component can easily be checked through our web-based reporting tools.

EEE Components, PASSIVES

How to read a capacitor data sheet

Posted by doEEEt Media Group
On November 7, 2020
0

The performance characteristics of any electronic component are included in product data sheets, which help designers and engineers to identify the properest component meeting the requirements of an application

EEE Components, PASSIVES

Kemet Continue to Toughen Up Polymer Tantalum Capacitors

Posted by Kemet Electronic Corporation
On October 17, 2020
0

Leading passive components manufacturers will discuss hot products, application notes and latest technology during the 2nd Passive Components Networking Symposium on 11th September 2019 in Bucharest, Romania

EEE Components, PASSIVES

How to Select the Right Transformer for High Voltage Energy Storage Applications

Posted by doEEEt Media Group
On October 16, 2020
0

Push-pull transformers are known to operate well with low voltages and low variations in input and output. This characteristic is ideal for a microcontroller bias or gate driver IC that has constant power levels and input voltages. Unlike typical flyback and forward topologies, the push-pull topology offers high efficiency at a stable input and output current. Any variations in input and output current tend to waste energy as the power dissipated in the switches remains constant.

EEE Components, INSPECTION, ELECTRICAL & VERIFICATION

Idiosyncrasy of International Space Markets

Posted by Jose Luis Alvarez de Cienfuegos Gálvez
On August 30, 2020
0

IDIOSYNCRASY OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE MARKETS Six decades have passed since the launch of the first artificial satellite by the USSR (Sputnik) and five decades since the landing of human beings on the Moon (Apollo project -USA-), two of the greatest landmarks of the space race that began in the shadow of the “Cold War” between the US and the USSR. After the conquest of the new world in the 16th century, this is considered a new turning point in the history of humanity that leads some authors to claim it as the beginning of a new period of history: The Space Age.

INSPECTION, ELECTRICAL & VERIFICATION, PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL & ASSEMBLY, TESTING

MIL-STD-883 METHOD 2003 – Solderability Testing

Posted by Manuel Padial Pérez
On July 23, 2020
0

The Mil-Std-883 Method 2003 Is One Of The Oldest And Most Widely Used Standards For Solderability Testing.

Alter Technology Services

Long Term Storage EEE components

Posted by David Nuñez Teruel
On June 25, 2020
0

Long Term Storage was one of our early studies. In 1993, in the frame of COLUMBUS project, we got an ESA contract to assess the “ Long Term Storage for High Reliability Components ”. Procedures and storage area was put in place.

Page 1 of 212