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By Michal Bacia Why is everybody so excited about solar? In short: it is a secure, highly profitable investment at zero cost. That means there is no need to spend money on this investment in order to enjoy the profits. Seriously! Oh, by the way, it helps the planet too! … and creates local jobs! Imagine somebody offering you this

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The Australian arm of the world’s largest PV maker, Yingli Solar, has announced a new digital quality control program aimed at raising the benchmark for the nation’s rooftop solar industry. Yingli4You, launched by Yingli Green Energy Australia on Tuesday, is described as an educational, incentive, technical and project management package to help the module maker’s partner installers to raise industry

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The LT8705 operates over a 2.8V to 80V input voltage range and produces a fixed 1.3V to 80V output, using a single inductor with 4-switch synchronous rectification. Output power up to 250W can be delivered with a single device. Higher power can be achieved when multiple circuits are paralleled. The LT8705 has four feedback loops to regulate the input current/voltage,

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The team is led by Alexander Balandin, University of California Presidential Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding chair of the materials science and engineering program at UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering. Other members of the team are Roger Lake, a UC Riverside professor, Alexander Khitun, a UC Riverside research professor, and Tina Salguero, an assistant professor at

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The results are published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The perovskites that were used to make the LEDs are known as organometal halide perovskites, and contain a mixture of lead, carbon-based ions and halogen ions known as halides. The materials dissolve well in common solvents, and assemble to form perovskite crystals when dried, making them cheap and simple to make.

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Mining the moon to meet our energy needs may sound like the plot from a sci-fi movie, but China is considering doing exactly that. Helium 3 is an extremely valuable isotope that could be used in clean fusion plants to generate energy – and it’s available in vast quantities on the moon. Some scientists say that the moon is so

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Low-voltage MOSFETs with a voltage rating of <40 volts are expected to witness high demand because of their increased adoption for various applications. Most electronic devices employ low-voltage MOSFETs to optimize the power consumption of the device, which is one of the key concerns of manufacturers. As a result, the demand for low-voltage MOSFETs with a rating of <40 volts

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Texas Instruments today introduced the industry’s smallest bidirectional 18-V, 5-A protection switches with high power efficiency. These tiny devices reduce solution size and extend battery life in portable and adapter-powered devices, and enterprise and client solid state drives. Industry’s smallest 18-V eFuse power protection system efficiently defends systems Enterprise SSDs are reading and writing more data than ever before, which

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The LTC3124 from Linear Technology Corporation is a dual-phase, 3MHz, current-mode, synchronous boost DC/DC converter with output disconnect and inrush current limiting. Dual-phase operation significantly reduces peak inductor and capacitor ripple currents, minimizing component size while delivering lower output ripple versus an equivalent single-phase device. Its internal 2.5 A per phase capable switches together deliver 5 A of switch current.

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Infineon Technologies AG expands the comprehensive SiC portfolio introducing the 5th generation1200V thinQ!™ SiC Schottky diodes. The new 1200V SiC diodes feature ultra-low forward voltage even at operating temperatures, more than 100 percent improved surge current capability and excellent thermal behavior. These features result in significant efficiency improvement and robust operation in solar inverters, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), 3-phase SMPS

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