Design007 Magazine

6 The PCB Design Magazine • August 2016 ARTICLES Mike Creeden: Care and Training of Your Designers Interview with Mike Creeden The Gerber Guide, Chapters 17 & 18 by Karel Tavernier COLUMNS Voices of the Industry by Andy Shaughnessy How to Handle the Dreaded Dangles, Part 1 by Barry Olney Your Traces Have Hot Spots! by Douglas G. Brooks, PhD Conformal Coatings: Beware the Boards that 'Bare' All! by Phil Kinner Smaller Circuits: Material Properties and Thermal Issues by John Coonrod HIGHLIGHTS PCB007 MilAero007 Top Ten PCBDesign007 SHORTS Lithium-ion Batteries: Capacity Might be Increased by Six Times Implantable 'Neural Dust' Enables Precise Wireless Recording of Nerve Activity Chemical Sensing at Telecom Wavelengths NREL Technique Leads to Improved Perovskite Solar Cells DEPARTMENTS Events Calendar Advertisers Index & Masthead More Content 62 80 8 50 58 70 74 48 78 84 10 18 56 83 86 87 August 2016 Vol. 5, No. 8 thepcbdesignmagazine.com 62 58

• Cover
• Feature Content — Voices of the Industry
• More Content
• Column — Voices of the Industry
• Short — Lithium-ion Batteries: Capacity Might be Increased by Six Times
• Feature — Voices of the Industry
• Short — Implantable 'Neural Dust' Enables Precise Wireless Recording of Nerve Activity
• Special Report — Alex Stepinski, Our First Recipient of the Good for the Industry Award
• Feature — The Authors of the Printed Circuits Handbook Speak
• Feature — The Many Voices Over the Past Year: The PCBDesign007 Interview Index
• PCB007 Highlights
• Column — How to Handle the Dreaded Danglers, Part 1
• Short — Chemical Sensing at Telecom Wavelengths
• Column — Your Traces Have Hot Spots
• Article — Mike Creeden: Care and Training of Your Designers
• Column — Conformal Coatings: Beware the Boards that 'Bare' All!
• Column — Smaller Circuits: Material Properties and Thermal Issues
• MilAero007 Highlights
• Article — The Gerber Guide, Chapters 17 & 18
• Short — NREL Technique Leads to Improved Perovskite Solar Cells
• Top Ten Recent Highlights from PCBDesign007
• Events Calendar
• Advertiser Index and Masthead
• Back Cover