
rare earths


March 2011
Closing of Underwater Oil Spills with Magnetic Material MEDER electronic, Inc. MMS – 2.8mm Implantable MEMS Reed Sensors austriamicrosystems’ Launches New 10-Bit Magnetic Rotary Encoder with Integrated Wake-Up and Power-Down Feature Tektronix Introduces New Probes VPT […]

February 2011
A Hidden Magnetic Configuration in Manganite Thin Films MEDER electronic –MK23 Compact SMD Reed Sensor Series Broaden with New Form C Versions New England Wire Technologies Magnet-Physics Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. Releases New Family of User-Programmable, […]

Is Your Design Optimized?
A Column by Dr. Stan Trout In recent weeks I had two very similar conversations that reminded me that we do not share the same collective wisdom or experience, and sometimes it is a very […]

No Substitutions
A Column by Dr. Stan Trout In a famous scene from the movie “Five Easy Pieces,” Jack Nicholson demonstrates how frustrated someone can become with seemingly unreasonable requests. In this case, it was the phrase […]

Rare Earth Myths Debunked
By John Ebert, Business Manager • Yunsheng USA, Inc. The growing interest in rare earth (RE) materials has created new opportunities in motion control design and an entirely new generation of applications from BLDC motors […]

Replacing the Rare Earth Intellectual Capital
By Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., Senior Metallurgist • Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy The rare earth crisis slowly evolved during a 10 to 15 year period beginning in the mid-1980s, when the Chinese began […]