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California’s push to transform the market for grid-scale energy storage is working even better than expected — at least on paper. Last year, California created a mandate calling for 1,325 megawatts of energy storage projects by 2020, to be scaled up every two years. The first installment of proposals due this year adds up to 200 megawatts. As of mid-2014,

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Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed the first ab initio method meaning a theoretical model free of adjustable or empirical parameters for characterizing the properties of ‘hot carriers’ in semiconductors. Hot carriers are electrical charge carriers electrons and holes with higher energy than charge carriers at thermal equilibrium. Hot carrier thermalization is a major source

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The RTD Simulator Cards (50-262) contain six resistance channels each with exceptional resistance stability and fine setting resolution characteristics. The 50-262 PCI RTD simulator range is offered with two resistance ranges – 90 to 250 Ohm and 900 to 2500 Ohm with the PT100 version providing 8 mOhm setting resolution. Each programmable resistor can be programmed with resistance calls which

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Worst-case circuit analysis is a cost-effective means of screening a design to verify with a high degree of confidence that potential defects and deficiencies are identified and eliminated prior to test, production, and delivery and that the design will function, within specifications, throughout its lifetime. The digital worst-case timing analysis (WCTA) portion of WCCA analyzes the timing of digital devices

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Novotechnik, U.S. introduces the LWX-002 Series shaft protected position sensors designed for extremely harsh environments. The all metal sensor shaft is protected over its range of motion with an SS304 alloy, 0.9 mm thick stainless steel shield. The LWX-002 Series has a patented differential pressure compensation system to compensate for the pump effect – pressure that can build up due

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C-Therm group of Setaram launched the next generation of its thermal conductivity analyzer. The development introduces some impressive new capabilities. C-Therm completely redesigned the electronics and introduced a new ‘high-resistance’ sensor that has significantly expanded the thermal conductivity testing range of  the TCi to 220 W/mK, all while maintaining the instrument’s hallmark ease-of-use and traditional high performance in accuracy and

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Saft is launching its new Seanergy range of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery modules developed to offer the proven safety, performance and reliability advantages of Li-ion Super-Iron Phosphate (SLFP) chemistry in a fully integrated solution designed specifically for civil marine propulsion installations. The new range includes a variety of Energy and Power modules that offer the flexibility and adaptability to create highly

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Within the project OpEneR (Optimal Energy consumption and Recovery based on a system network), the engineers and researchers worked on topics as different as improvements of the electric power train and the regenerative braking system, the navigation system and the surround sensors as well as of functions that interconnect all these building blocks. They built functioning electric vehicles prototypes that

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Today’s systems-on-chips integrate large numbers and varieties of intellectual property (IP) that come from multiple sources. Some are developed internally. Others come from one or more external suppliers. The integration of the Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) chains of these varied IP and their related controllability has proven to be a challenge that chip designers have either just accepted or

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Dialog Semiconductor plc introduced its iW3640 solid state lighting (SSL) LED driver, designed to bring mood-enhancing ambiance to price-sensitive SSL bulbs. The iW3640 2-channel, 25W SSL LED driver offers a simple, low-cost, dimmable colour-mixing solution to achieve warm incandescent-like dimming while eliminating the need for a microcontroller and dedicated power supply. This reduces the bill of materials (BOM) cost for

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