Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)

Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder. Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered to perform a certain function, but none intended to actually be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed cross-section photography, Open Circuits reveals the surprising—and often accidental—beauty hiding inside the electronic components that drive our everyday devices. From resistors to LEDs, USB cables to headphone jacks, stepper motors to nixie tubes, the book’s arresting imagery transforms more than 130 components into delightful works of art. As you visually dissect the components’ insides, you’ll learn about how they work and how they were made. Open Circuits has something for everyone to appreciate, whether you’re a seasoned electrical engineer, an amateur tinkerer, or simply a lover of art and photography. About the Authors Contents in Detail Introduction Chapter 1: Passive Components 32 kHz Quartz Crystal Carbon Film Resistor High-Stability Film Resistor Wirewound Power Resistor Thick-Film Resistor Array Surface-Mount Chip Resistor Thin-Film Resistor Array Wirewound Potentiometer Trimmer Potentiometer 15-Turn Trimmer Potentiometer 10-Turn Potentiometer Ceramic Disc Capacitor Glass Capacitor Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Film Capacitor Dipped Tantalum Capacitor Polymer Tantalum Chip Capacitor Polymer Aluminum Chip Capacitor Axial Inductor Surface-Mount Inductor Sintered Ferrite Inductor Ferrite Bead Three-Terminal Filter Capacitor Toroidal Transformer Power Supply Transformer Low-Power Cartridge Fuses Axial Lead Fuse Liquid Power Fuse Compact Power Fuse Thermal Fuse Chapter 2: Semiconductors 1N4002 Diode Glass-Encapsulated Diodes Rectifier Bridge 2N2222 Transistor 2N3904 Transistor LM309K Voltage Regulator Dual In-Line Package (DIP) ICs ATmega328 Microcontroller Small Outline Integrated Circuit Thin Quad Flat Pack Ball Grid Array Microprocessor SoC Through-Hole Red LED Surface-Mount LED Red Green Bicolor LED White LED Laser Diode Optocoupler Optical Tilt Sensor Optical Encoders Ambient Light Sensor CMOS Image Sensor Chapter 3: Electromechanics Toggle Switch Slide Switch Pushbutton Switch DIP Switch Tactile Switch Microswitch Electromagnetic Relay Thermal Switch Brushed DC Motor Stepper Motor Magnetic Buzzer Speaker Smartphone Camera Inside the Camera Module Rotary Voice Coil Motor Optical Drive Focusing Motors Electret Microphone Chapter 4: Cables and Connectors Solid and Stranded Wire AC Power Cable IDC Ribbon Cable Modular Telephone Cable DIP Sockets Barrel Plug and Jack Quarter-Inch Audio Plug and Jack 3.5 mm Audio Connector LMR-195 Coaxial Cable Laptop Power Cable RG-6 Coaxial Cable Cable TV RG-59 F Connector BNC Plug and Jack SMA Connector DE-9 Connector Category 6 Ethernet Cable SATA Cable HDMI Cable VGA Cable Basic USB Cable USB Jack SuperSpeed USB Cable Chapter 5: Retro Tech Neon Lamp Nixie Tube Inside the Nixie Tube 12AX7 Vacuum Tube Vacuum Fluorescent Display Tube Cathode Ray Tube Inside the CRT Mercury Tilt Switch Vintage Wirewound Resistors Carbon Composition Resistor Cornell-Dubilier 9LS Capacitor Dipped Silver Mica Capacitor Axial Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor IF Transformer Incandescent Light Bulb Camera Flashbulb Photoresistor Point Contact Diode Germanium Diode μA702 Integrated Circuit Windowed EPROM Core Memory IBM SLT Module Analog Panel Meter Magnetic Tape Head Thin-Film Hard Drive Head GMR Hard Drive Head Chapter 6: Composite Devices LED Filament Light Bulb Single-Side Printed Circuit Board Two-Layer Printed Circuit Board Multilayer Circuit Boards Flex and Rigid-Flex Circuit Boards Elastomeric Connector MicroSD Card Glob-Top Packaging EMV Credit Card Chip NFC Key Card Smartphone Logic Board Inside the Logic Board Ethernet Transformer DC-DC Converter Seven-Segment LED Display Thick-Film LED Numeric Display 5×7 LED Dot Matrix Display Vintage LED Bubble Display Alphanumeric LED Display Temperature-Compensated Clock Crystal Oscillator Avalanche Photodiode Module 3656HG Isolation Amplifier Inside the Isolation Amplifier Cutting and Polishing Cleaning Potting Mounting Photographic Equipment Retouching About Macro Photography Focus Stacking Afterword: Creating Cross Sections Cutting and Polishing Cleaning Potting Mounting Photographic Equipment Retouching About Macro Photography Focus Stacking Glossary Index "Through full-color photographs, this book examines the "accidental beauty" of electronic components, or the aesthetic design of things consumers were never expected to see. Includes brief discussions of how these components work, how they were manufactured, and how they are used"-- Provided by publisher