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KEMET has introduced a supercapacitor balancing development kit for its S301 family of 60mm diameter capacitors. Used in series, supercapacitors need electronics to ensure no capacitor goes over the rated voltage as the string approaches full charge – 2.7V in this case, see below. The kit includes two-stage active balancing circuits to ensure that voltage across each supercapacitor is approximately

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KEMET has introduced a supercapacitor balancing development kit for its S301 family of 60mm diameter capacitors. Used in series, supercapacitors need electronics to ensure no capacitor goes over the rated voltage as the string approaches full charge – 2.7V in this case, see below. The kit includes two-stage active balancing circuits to ensure that voltage across each supercapacitor is approximately

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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM8046, a 2.5W output dc-dc µModule® (micromodule) converter with 2kVac galvanic isolation (production tested to 3kVdc) in a 9mm x 15mm x 4.92mm ball grid array (BGA) package. A minimum creepage distance of 4.3mm on the package exterior supports operation at a working voltage up to 400VRMS in a pollution degree 2 environment. The isolated

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One of the world’s biggest solar manufacturers and project developers, the US-based First Solar, has predicted that utility-scale solar costs in Australia will halve over the next five years, becoming cheaper than wind energy by 2020. First Solar says this should mean that large-scale solar takes up an increasing amount of the capacity required to be built under the current

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The co-author of this article is Lutz Rauscher from Bosch Sensortec. Up until shortly before publishing this blog was entitled “Trends in MEMS orientation sensor form factor reduction.” That was until we ran the draft past a colleague for proof reading, and in her feedback she summarised: “So, what you are really questioning is does size matter, and if so

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Researchers from the Fraunhofer IISB institute for integrated systems and components therefore adopted a different approach: Within the project ‘Energy Campus Nuremberg’ they developed a system that allows charging the vehicle from the front side rather than from the bottom. The vehicle drives up to the charging coil, and since it can virtually close the gap in touching the charging

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The researchers, working at various U.S. Department of Energy light source facilities as well as at Cambridge and Stony Brook universities, chose ruthenium oxide (RuO2) as a model system to study these so-called ‘conversion materials, named because they undergo large structural changes when reacting with lithium ions, reversibly forming metal nanoparticles and salts (here Ru and Li2O). The reactions are

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Confirming a leadership position in the automotive market, today Texas Instruments announces that more than 15 million of TI’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) System-on-Chip (SoC) devices are on the road. TI’s open and flexible solutions are in series production in over 25 OEMs and over 100 car models, and are designed to help reduce the number of road collisions

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Electronic Design Europe: Previously, silicon MEMS timing products could not compete with quartz’s low jitter performance for applications such as telecommunications. Has the jitter performance of silicon MEMS improved? Rami Kanama: For telecom and networking applications, the jitter performance needed improvement from both the MEMS and the controlling ASIC. The ASIC that Discera had was good, but we can improve

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Schaefer, Inc. has announced the TEC-100 and TEC-200 Series of isolated dc-dc converters that provide 100W and 200W of continuous power that feature high efficiency (up to 93%) and -60 to +125 degrees C operating temperature range. These units are especially designed for heavy industrial applications and harshest environment conditions. The TEC Series provides both 2:1 and 4:1 wide dc

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