A research team at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), together ...

High-dielectric-constant elastomers possess outstanding softness and stretchability. They allow a fast response and have a high reliability, and thus have been widely applied to wearable electronics.

KENT, Ohio—With three facilities across the state of Ohio, Kent Elastomer Products has spent more than 60 years carving out a niche for itself in the latex production space. Now the only manufacturer ...

Clothes that can mimic the feeling of being touched, touch displays that provide haptic feedback to users, or even ultralight loudspeakers. These are just some of the devices made possible using thin ...

Elastic polymers, or elastomers, are desirable materials because they can repeatedly de-form and re-form. But this softness often comes at the expense of mechanical strength, which the materials need ...

Cabot (NYSE:CBT) specializes in performance materials and specialty chemicals, expanding operations in advanced industrial ...

Today’s electronic packages have high clock speeds (multi-gigahertz range), fine pin densities (below 0.4-mm pitch), and high pin counts (over 2000). When assembled onto a printed-circuit board (PCB), ...

Ironwood Electronics introduced a new high-performance elastomer socket for 0.5-mm-pitch ball-grid-array (BGA) packages. The CG15-BGA-1003 socket is designed for a 10- x 5.7-mm package size. It ...