Lab on Printed Circuit Boards (Lab-on-PCB) technology has emerged as a promising platform, offering miniaturization, integration, and cost-effective fabrication for a wide range of sensing applications. This review explores the most common optical de...
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) defect detection is critical for quality control in electronics manufacturing. Traditional manual inspection and classical Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) methods face challenges in speed, consistency, and flexibility....
Printed circuit board (PCB) technology is well known, reliable, and low-cost, and its application to biomedicine, which implies the integration of microfluidics and electronics, has led to Lab-on-PCB. However, the biocompatibility of the involved mat...
The increasing accumulation of E-waste presents significant environmental challenges, particularly its disposal and resource management. The present study investigates the potential of printed circuit boards (PCBs) as a partial replacement for fine a...
In the present paper, the leaching of copper from printed circuit boards (PCBs) using sulfuric acid with Cu2+ and O2 is proposed. The effects of various process parameters such as agitation speed, temperature, the type and the flow rate of gas, initi...
The development of various biosensors has revolutionized the healthcare industry by providing rapid and reliable detection capability. Printed circuit board (PCB) technology has a well-established industry widely available around the world. In additi...
Improper handling of waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) can cause serious pollution to the water and soil environments. In order to explore a new method of recycling waste PCBs, this study investigated the effect of PCBs and butadiene styrene rubber...
A printed circuit board (PCB) is an essential element for practical circuit applications and its failure can inflict large financial costs and even safety concerns, especially if the PCB failure occurs prematurely and unexpectedly. Understanding the...
In the domain of printed circuit board (PCB) defect detection, challenges such as missed detections and false positives remain prevalent. To address these challenges, we propose a small-sample, high-precision PCB defect detection algorithm, called SS...
This paper presents a modified power factor correction (PFC) ON/OFF control and three-dimensional (3D) printed circuit board (PCB) design for a high-efficiency and high-power density onboard charger (OBC). By alternately operating one of two boost mo...
The treatment of end-of-life printed circuit boards (EoL PCBs) presents a contemporary recycling challenge with significant environmental, economic and social dimensions. This reality has attracted interest in the development of sustainable treatment...
The use of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) has seen a remarkable growth over the last decade, with applications in engineering, medicine, biology, chemistry, etc [...]
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are primitives that are designed to leverage naturally occurring variations to produce a random bitstring. Current PUF designs are typically implemented in silicon or utilize variations found in commercial off-the...
When performing In-Circuit Tests (ICTs) of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), there are certain phenomena related with strain analysis that must be known in order to obtain stronger and more accurate testing results. During testing, PCBs are often subjec...
A stretchable printed circuit board (PCB), which is an essential component of next-generation electronic devices, should be highly stretchable even at high levels of integration, as well as durable under repetitive stretching and patternable. Herein,...
Structural adhesives or fixing glues are typically applied to larger components on printed circuit boards (PCBs) to increase mechanical stability and minimize damage from vibration. Existing work tends to focus on component placement verification and...
In recent years, printed circuit board (PCB)-based microfluidics have been explored as a means to achieve standardization, seamless integration, and large-scale manufacturing of microfluidics, thus paving the way for widespread commercialization of d...
This paper reports for the first time printed-circuit-board (PCB)-based label-free electrochemical detection of bacteria. The demonstrated immunosensor was implemented on a PCB sensing platform which was designed and fabricated in a standard PCB manu...
A technology platform based on commercial printed circuit boards (PCB) technology is developed and presented. It integrates rigid flame retardant (FR)-4 boards, flexible polyimide (PI) structures, and embedded cavities for micro- and meso-scale appli...
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing demands accurate defect detection to ensure quality. Traditional methods, such as manual inspection or basic automated object inspection systems, are often time-consuming and inefficient. This work presents a...
The effect of the Au coated printed circuit board (PCB) as a current collector on the performance of fuel cells is demonstrated. In this study, optimized pulse electroplating was introduced, which was found to be much more effective compared to the d...
A low-profile dielectric resonator (DR) filter is proposed to achieve the feature of high integration and wide stopband. The high integration is due to the structure of printed circuit board (PCB) substrate instead of metal cavity, which can be easil...
The balance scheduling of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) assembly lines plays a crucial role in enhancing production efficiency. Traditional scheduling methods rely on fixed heuristic rules, which lack flexibility and adaptability to changing production...
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are extensively used to assemble electronic equipment. Currently, PCBs are an integral part of almost all electronic products. However, various surface defects can still occur during mass production. An enhanced YOLOv5s...
As technology evolves, more components are integrated into printed circuit boards (PCBs) and the PCB layout increases. Because small defects on signal trace can cause significant damage to the system, PCB surface inspection is one of the most importa...
High-speed mechanical drilling based on the micro-bit is the mainstream process technology for machining micro-holes in the printed circuit board (PCB). However, the above process to obtain PCB micro-holes is prone to defects, such as hole burrs and...
The acceleration of the global production and consumption of electronic devices and the concerns related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) motivated this research. Printed circuit boards (PCB) can be found in almost all types of ele...
Because modern electronic systems are likely to be exposed to high intensity radiated fields (HIRF) environments, there is growing interest in understanding how electronic systems are affected by such environments. Backdoor coupling in particular is...
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) offer a promising platform for the development of electronics-assisted biomedical diagnostic sensors and microsystems. The long-standing industrial basis offers distinctive advantages for cost-effective, reproducible, an...
In the packages and printed circuit boards (PCBs) of high-speed and mixed-signal electronics, parallel plate waveguides (PPWs) are frequently used as the power/ground plane pair, resulting in a significant problem of electrical switching noise such a...
Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing processes are becoming increasingly complex, where even minor defects can impair product performance and yield rates. Precisely identifying PCB defects is critical but remains challenging. Traditional PCB def...
This paper describes the fabrication opportunities that Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) offer for electronic and biomedical engineering. Historically, PCB substrates have been used to support the components of the electronic devices, linking them using...
In this study, we propose and analyze a dual-perforation (DP) technique to improve an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure in thin and low-cost printed circuit boards (PCBs). The proposed DP–EBG structure includes a power plane with a square...
Accurate prediction of material feeding before production for a printed circuit board (PCB) template can reduce the comprehensive cost caused by surplus and supplemental feeding. In this study, a novel hybrid approach combining fuzzy c-means (FCM), f...
The prominent rostrum of the North American Paddlefish, supported by a lattice-like endoskeleton, is highly durable, making it an important candidate for bio-inspiration studies. Energy dissipation and load-bearing capacity of the structure from extr...
Small surface defects in printed circuit boards (PCBs) severely affect the reliability of electronic devices, making PCB surface defect detection crucial for ensuring the quality of electronic products. However, the existing detection methods often s...
New product development (NPD) is a process of interactions among multiple parties. With stronger competition in the electronic product market, reducing NPD cycle time has become a common important subject in the information technology (IT) industry....
The recent advancements in high-frequency, high-power switching devices require the development of non-invasive, cost-effective sensors for signal diagnostics. In this context, planar sensors have emerged as promising candidates for voltage and curre...
The effect of varying process parameters during bio-catalyzed leaching of metals from end-of-life printed circuit boards (PCBs) was investigated. Fragmented PCBs (under 2 mm) were subjected to an indirect bioleaching in a stirred tank reactor while p...
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) make up 3 to 5% of all electronic waste. The metal content of spent PCBs can reach 40%. They usually contain valuable metals, such as Ag, Au, and Pd, as well as other metals such as Cu, Sn, Pb, Cd, Cr, Zn, Ni, and Mn. Ho...
Accurately recognizing tiny defects on printed circuit boards (PCBs) remains a significant challenge due to the abundance of small targets and complex background textures. To tackle this issue, this article proposes a novel YOLO-SPD-SimAM-WIoU (YOLO-...
This article describes the design, control, and implementation of a photovoltaic (PV) emulator using two-switch forward-converter topology. The system is designed to emulate the nonlinear electrical behavior of an actual PV panel under different envi...
Cardiac mapping is a crucial procedure for diagnosing and treating cardiac arrhythmias. Still, current clinical techniques face limitations including insufficient electrode coverage, poor conformability to complex heart chamber geometries, and high c...
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most common method used for nucleic acid (DNA) amplification. The development of PCR-performing microfluidic reactors (μPCRs) has been of major importance, due to their crucial role in pathogen detection appl...
Electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is widely recognized as a powerful tool in biomedical research. For example, it allows detection and monitoring of diseases, measuring of cell density in bioreactors, and characterizing the permeability of tigh...
To achieve lower switching losses and higher frequency capabilities in converter design, researchers worldwide have been investigating Silicon carbide (SiC) modules and MOSFETs. In power electronics, wide bandgap devices such as Silicon carbide are e...
In this paper, we present a unit-cell-based domain decomposition method (UC-DDM) for rapid and accurate simulation of predicting the parallel plate noise (PPN) suppression of a truncated electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure in high-speed printed c...
Capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) is an improved approach to avoid the problems of labor-intensive, time-consuming and insufficient accuracy of plate count as well as the high-cost apparatus of flow cytometry (FCM) in bact...
This paper presents a novel design of a wideband circular polarization 2 × 2 microstrip antenna array working at Ka-band frequencies, from 27.5 to 31 GHz. This module is highly integrable with new silicon beamformer chips, creating a unit cell that c...
Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) suffers from scarce labeled data and frequent domain shifts caused by variations in camera optics, illumination, and product design. These limitations hinder the development of accur...
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