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Market research firm Yole Développement’s new “Power GaN Market” report forecasts a $600 million market for gallium-nitride (GaN) devices by 2020, which translates to approximately 580,000 six-inch wafers. Dr. Philippe Roussel, Yole’s business unit senior manager, says that starting in 2016, compound annual growth rate (CAGR) will be an estimated 80% through 2020, based on the assumption that electric vehicle/hybrid

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As today’s home electronics and appliances offer ever-lower standby power, new smart-meter chips from STMicroelectronics enable utility companies to improve billing by measuring accurately down to extremely low power levels. Meters featuring ST’s new STPM32, STPM33 and STPM34 ICs will help utilities minimize revenue losses and ensure consistent billing for even the most frugal customers. Although existing meters are highly

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TDK Corp. has added 12 V and 15 V models to its TDK-Lambda ZWS300BAF series of high reliability power supplies. Operating from a universal input of 85 to 265 Vac, the ZWS300BAF features a 10-year electrolytic capacitor lifetime demanded by manufacturers of industrial, test & measurement, broadcast and communications equipment. The ZWS300BAF series now comprises of 12 V, 15 V,

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While electric vehicles offer many advantages–including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the country’s dependence on imported petroleum–at least one barrier stands in the way of their large-scale adoption: “range anxiety.” The current 2014 electric Nissan Leaf, for example, has a range of just 84 miles on a fully charged battery. With support from the National Science Foundation, researchers at George

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TDK Corporation has expanded its technical support tools for MLCCs: The new DC Bias Model enables designers to simulate DC bias characteristics of MLCCs, even when the DC bias applied to the MLCCs varies. As a result of TDK’s advanced electronic component model, the capacitance in the simulation changes dynamically with a changing DC bias voltage, an industry first. Until

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JuiceBox Energy, Inc. has introduced its plug and play battery storage and energy management system for solar energy storage. The system features an advanced 8.6kWh lithium-ion energy storage system for residential and commercial renewable energy installations and a system controller that enables peak shifting, electricity demand charge reduction and back-up power for grid independence. The JuiceBox system is a maintenance

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Ranging from 30 V to 200 V, the products reduce RDS(on) increasing their output current capability in applications such as high power density DC-DC converters, Point-of-Load (POL) converters, synchronous rectification in DC/DC and AC/DC converters, motor drives, LED lighting, and industrial automation. The family of eGaN FETs cuts on-resistance (RDS(on)) in half, enabling high current, high power density applications. The

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Scientists at the University of Southern California created a battery using quinones, organic compounds that can be found in nature. Plants, fungi, bacteria and some animals contain them. “These are the types of molecules that nature uses for energy transfer,” explained USC professor Sri Narayan. The researchers derived their quinones from naturally-occurring hydrocarbons. The point of using them is their

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Liv-Lib is a solar-powered residential complex designed to address the problem of population density in the Île-de-France in Paris, while contributing to the development of a sustainable city. Presented by Team Paris at the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014, the project seeks to create a dense area of individual houses that provide residents with easy access to ecologically sound infrastructure to

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A world devastated by climate change is like a night where The Day After Tomorrow, Planet of the Apes, and A Clockwork Orange turn on some Marvin Gaye, burn some incense, and hit the bed to breed a mega dystopia. A lot of people know about the dangers of fossil fuels, the importance of recycling, and why it’s healthier to

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