Sustainable Electronics

This article shows how to evaluate energy-harvesting technologies for IoT applications to minimize or eliminate the use of batteries.

A leading issue across the industry these days concerns recyclability and sustainability. This article focuses on the use of carbon, especially in the forms of graphene and carbon...

Electronically commutated (EC) fans enhance electronics cooling while using significantly less power and, in turn, promoting energy efficiency.

A new scheme to fabricate waveguides from polymers and make them conductive promises high performance, light weight, and unique shapes.

Jabil is getting into the business of recovering chips and other components from circuit boards. In the latest installment of The Briefing, we discuss the new effort with the ...

A new benchmarking tool called the “GreenTool” could help us create more sustainable electronic products in the future.

A new sustainable ECG patch brings us one step closer to creating less single-use plastic waste.

Advanced, computationally intensive system topologies for sustainable applications will increase energy consumption through operation at higher power levels and bandwidth. Semiconductor...

The joint effort will take a hard look at the negative impact of chipmaking on the environment, with the hope of finding ways to reduce the chip industry’s collective footprint...

New initiatives focused on electronics circularity are putting the pressure on manufacturers to create more sustainable flexible products. This article outlines five plans of ...

Avnet’s latest customer survey found that customer demand is driving engineers to embrace more of a “design for sustainability” ethos.

Explore the feasibility of a circular economy for electronics in the latest edition of The Briefing. Can Infineon help make it happen using a new biodegradable PCB?

Schneider Electric wants to help chipmakers curb their ever-expanding carbon footprint.

Small-scale connected devices have long relied on disposable coin-cell batteries as their power source. Now that we’ve got billions of these products, the problems wrought by ...

From a designer’s perspective, what’s worse than having to deal with quality assurance? Answer: planning for sustainability.