Tag: news

Nagoya: Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Primearth EV Energy Co. Tuesday said it will increase its production capacity for nickel metal hydride batteries used in hybrid cars. To meet increasing demand for fuel-efficient cars, the Shizuoka-based subsidiary will expand its production capacity at its plant in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, to 500,000 cars worth of rechargeable batteries from the current

Read more

The Department of Commerce has again found for the petitioner, SolarWorld, in its Chinese solar module trade case. This afternoon’s preliminary decision imposes significant tariffs on Chinese solar modules in the anti-dumping portion of this case. Today’s decision also closes what SolarWorld called a “loophole” that allowed Chinese module manufacturers to use Taiwanese cells in their modules and circumvent U.S.

Read more

No need to hammer home the Popeye parallel, so let’s get right down to it: there’s a new reason to love spinach. And this new reason is related to the old reason – why your mother insisted you eat it. Like all leafy greens, spinach is very good for you. Beyond that, the vegetable’s intense green is evidence that it

Read more

Construction has commenced on what will be the largest single rooftop solar photovoltaic PV project in Australia, with the installation of a 990kWp system at the IKEA Tempe store in New South Wales. The system, which is being installed by Kingspan Energy, will be the largest of IKEA’s Australian PV projects – comprising nearly 4,000 Yingli polycrystalline modules and 43

Read more

US renewable energy and solar specialist Recurrent Energy says up to 2,500MW of utility-scale solar could be built in Australia by 2020 if the renewable energy target is kept as is. Recurrent Energy says utility scale solar PV will be cost competitive with wind energy within a few years – as others such as Bloomberg New Energy Finance have pointed

Read more

Avago Technologies has introduced a gate drive optocoupler device that integrates a flyback controller for DC-DC converters and fail-safe IGBT diagnostics. The device’s 2.5A rail-to-rail output makes it suitable for driving IGBTs and power MOSFETs in industrial power inverters and motor drives. “By integrating the flyback controller, the ACPL-302J allows fewer discrete components and small high-efficiency transformer to be placed

Read more

The functional materials for supercapacitors market will reach $5bn before 2025, so predicts IDTechEx Research’s report, Functional Materials for Supercapacitors / Ultracapacitors / EDLC 2015-2025. The most critical and costly components of a supercapacitor are the active electrodes, electrolyte and then separator. As solid state supercapacitors in the laboratory have no separator, then the structure and chemistry of electrodes/electrolytes are

Read more

Spansion is sampling its S6AP412A series of multi-channel DC-to-DC power management ICs (PMICs) and expects to have production volumes available in September starting at $3.60 in volumes of 1,500 units. The S6AP412A series — an expansion of the Spansion MB39C031 family of DC-to-DC buck-converter, programmable PMICs — supplies three channels of power on a single chip to cutting-edge system-on-chip (SoC)

Read more

One of the latest Linear Technology dc-to-dc converter ICs is the LTC3124, whose application circuit is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1. The LTC3124features fixed frequency, current mode PWM control for good line and load regulation as well as Burst Mode control that improves efficiency at light loads and reduces standby current at no load. The regulator employs an external

Read more

The news at Techno Frontier from Transphorm, Inc. is the continuation of the story begun late in 2013 when the acquisition of the Fujitsu GaN Business unit was announced. This year, Transphorm is announcing that it is now working with three distributors in Japan. They are UKC Electronics Corporation, IIDA Electronics (TSUSHO) Co., Ltd, and FEI (Fujitsu Electronics Incorporated). Manning

Read more