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6 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2019 SEPTEMBER 2019 • CONTENTS FLEX007 ARTICLE: Flex Standards Update With Nick Koop Interview by Andy Shaughnessy FLEX007 COLUMNS: Flex Standards in Flux by Andy Shaughnessy Standards: An Industry-strength Glue by Joe Fjelstad Monocoque Printed Circuits: An Update by Dominique K. Numakura HIGHLIGHTS: Flex007 News FLEX007 SHORTS: Earwear and Watches Expected too Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9% Wearable Sensors Detect What's in Your Sweat We're heading into fall, but the electronics industry is still smoking hot. Flexible circuits are continuing to find their way into almost every type of device. With the advent of 5G and IoT, flex standards are more critical than ever, especially for rigid board designers who have been forced into designing flexible circuits. This month we explore the world of standards for flexible circuits. Focusing on Flex 98 94 104 108 102 96 107 FLEX 98 108 104 107

• Design007 Magazine - Sept. 2019
• Feature Contents — Streamlining Standards
• Additional Contents
• Flex007 Contents
• Column — Time to Streamline Standards
• Short — World's Smallest Accelerometer Points To New Era in Wearables, Gaming
• Feature Interview — Design For Excellence: Karen McConnell on Standards
• Short — Nylon as a Building Block for Transparent Electronic Devices?
• Feature Interview — The Convergence: IPC Merging CFX With IPC-2581
• Feature — Why Does the PCB Industry Still Use Gerber?
• Feature Interview — Emma Hudson on the Harmonization of Standards
• Feature Interview — So Many Standards Committees, So Little Time
• Short — Control of Excitons in a 2D Semiconductor
• Feature — ODB++: Transforming Ideas Into Products
• Feature — IPC-2581 Continues to Flourish
• Short — Researchers Demonstrate 3D Quantum Hall Effect for the First Time
• Feature Column — Realizing a Higher Standard for PCB Design
• Short — Graphene Layer Enables Advance in Super-Resolution Microscopy
• PCB007 Highlights
• Column — My 100th Column
• Column — Recent IPC DC Chapter Activities
• Short — Spreading Light Over Quantum Computers
• Column — A Proactive Approach to Controlled Impedance
• Short — Researchers Develop Rapid, Low-cost Method to 3D Print Microfluidic Devices
• Column — Six Key Points for Designing a Defect-free Conformal Coating Process
• Short — At the Edge of Chaos, Powerful New Electronics Could be Created
• MilAero007 Highlights
• Article — Insertion Loss Performance Differences Due to Plated & Circuit Structure
• Flex007 Column — Flex Standards in Flux
• Short — Earwear and Watches Expected to Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9%
• Flex007 Feature Interview — Flex Standards Update With Nick Koop
• Flex007 News Highlights
• Flex007 Column — Standards: An Industrial-strength Glue
• Short — Wearable Sensors Detect What's in Your Sweat
• Flex007 Column — Monocoque Printed Circuits: An Update
• Top 10 Editor Picks from PCBDesign007 and Flex007
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