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Hi Simon Sir,

Looks like you already have the bases pretty much covered. Since Wurth is doing buck/boost technologies, I was wondering if you could add stuff like materials and technologies in electronic components.

In the past few years, we have moved from air core inductors to solid state inductors- Now we are moving towards Low Temperature CoFired Ceramics which allow us to fabricate passives on die along with silicon junction devices and even High-K materials for electronic substrate. It would be interesting to see a take on how the demand for faster AND more efficient AND more COMPACT electronics has influenced this shift in component manufacturing.

I was intrigued with the subject when the challengers of the InTheAir Challenge were provided inductors of different types- Multilayer Ceramic capacitors of different sizes and upon some research discovered a lot of interesting things. Lots of questions came to my mind.

How does one choose the type of component?

What are the pros and cons of each type?

What other properties do these materials exibit?

What else is coming?

I work on microwave materials for electronic applications and the effect of this kind on research on devices today is quite interesting to me.

Additionally, RF/High Frequency PCB design is an interesting topic to me. Not just talking about PCBs for FPGA and other devices but techniques for layout of Antennas, Chip antenna and Baluns etc. As wearable tech a IoT come of age, it is a useful discussion for product designers.

Lastly, the hackathon approach to DIY. A lot of people spend loads of money on buying breakout boards, gettings PCBs and then making a project while at the end the project no longer is DIY but rather an Assemble it Yourself. The hackathon approach is "Use what is available" and guys like me have been doing it for decades due to a multitude of reasons. It would be nice to see household stuff recycled and the electronics present within them understood and reused.

Hope some of this makes sense and does not veer off into a tangent.

Thanks again to you guys for the support in the InTheAir.

Regards,

IP

Hi Simon Sir,

Looks like you already have the bases pretty much covered. Since Wurth is doing buck/boost technologies, I was wondering if you could add stuff like materials and technologies in electronic components.

In the past few years, we have moved from air core inductors to solid state inductors- Now we are moving towards Low Temperature CoFired Ceramics which allow us to fabricate passives on die along with silicon junction devices and even High-K materials for electronic substrate. It would be interesting to see a take on how the demand for faster AND more efficient AND more COMPACT electronics has influenced this shift in component manufacturing.

I was intrigued with the subject when the challengers of the InTheAir Challenge were provided inductors of different types- Multilayer Ceramic capacitors of different sizes and upon some research discovered a lot of interesting things. Lots of questions came to my mind.

How does one choose the type of component?

What are the pros and cons of each type?

What other properties do these materials exibit?

What else is coming?

I work on microwave materials for electronic applications and the effect of this kind on research on devices today is quite interesting to me.

Additionally, RF/High Frequency PCB design is an interesting topic to me. Not just talking about PCBs for FPGA and other devices but techniques for layout of Antennas, Chip antenna and Baluns etc. As wearable tech a IoT come of age, it is a useful discussion for product designers.

Lastly, the hackathon approach to DIY. A lot of people spend loads of money on buying breakout boards, gettings PCBs and then making a project while at the end the project no longer is DIY but rather an Assemble it Yourself. The hackathon approach is "Use what is available" and guys like me have been doing it for decades due to a multitude of reasons. It would be nice to see household stuff recycled and the electronics present within them understood and reused.

Hope some of this makes sense and does not veer off into a tangent.

Thanks again to you guys for the support in the InTheAir.

Regards,

IP