Engineering notes
Engineering answers to common materials questions.
Blog resources address the questions engineers ask during early material down-selection, including property targets, test methods, processing constraints, and application risk.
An Introduction to Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials are vanishingly small, closer in scale to DNA than to anything visible by eye. Learn why properties change at the nanoscale and how engineers turn those changes into useful materials.
ESD Materials for Space: Why Surface Resistance Alone Is Not Enough
Satellite hardware needs more than an ESD surface-resistance number. Space-grade charge-dissipative polymers must survive plasma charging, differential charging, atomic oxygen, vacuum outgassing, thermal cycling, mechanical loads, and mission-specific grounding requirements.
Advanced Electromagnetic Measurement Techniques: From DC to THz
Electromagnetic material characterization spans DC resistance to terahertz spectroscopy. Learn how complex permittivity, permeability, and conductivity determine which measurement method is right for your material—and why no single technique tells the whole story.
The Fixture Is Part of the Process: Why Static Control Belongs in Semiconductor Material Design
Why static control belongs in semiconductor fixture material design, not as an afterthought, and how resistance targets, ionic purity, and particle control shape material selection.