Technology Briefs
We include the 22 Technology Briefs from the book here. Each
provide an overview of a topic that every electrical and computer
engineering professional should become familiar with. The
Briefs are presented at a technical level intended to challenge you,
the reader, to pursue the subject further on your own.
Technology Brief 2: Voltage: How Big Is Big?
Technology Brief 3: Superconductivity
Technology Brief 4: Resistive Sensors
Technology Brief 5: Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Technology Brief 6: Measurement of Electrical Properties of Sea Ice
Technology Brief 7: Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process
Technology Brief 8: Digital and Analog
Technology Brief 9: Display Technologies
Technology Brief 10: Computer Memory Circuits
Technology Brief 11: Circuit Simulation Software
Technology Brief 12: Supercapacitors
Technology Brief 13: Hard Disk Drives (HDD)
Technology Brief 14: Capacitive Sensors
Technology Brief 15: Micromechanical Sensors and Actuators
Technology Brief 16: RFID Tags and Antenna Design
Technology Brief 17: Neural Stimulation and Recording
Technology Brief 18: Touchscreens and Active Digitizers
Technology Brief 19: Crystal Oscillators
Technology Brief 20: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Technology Brief 21: Seeing without Light
Technology Brief 22: Noise-Cancellation Headphones
Technology Brief 23: Spectral and Spatial Filtering
Technology Brief 24: Electrical Engineering and the Audiophile
Technology Brief 25: Miniaturized Energy Harvesting
Technology Brief 26: Inside a Power Generation Station
Technology Brief 27: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Technology Brief 28: 3-D TV
Technology Brief 29: Mapping the Entire World in 3-D
Technology Brief 30: Bandwidth, Data Rate, and Communication
Technology Brief 31: Synthetic Biology
Technology Brief 32: Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI)