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Cambrios Technologies Corporationand Heraeus Group announced a new class of hybrid, transparent, conductive materials made of silver nanowires and conductive polymers. Combining ClearOhm® silver nanowires with Clevios™ PEDOT:PSS conductive polymer creates a new hybrid “one layer solution” resulting in the highest conductivity coupled with an ultra-smooth surface. The new Clevios™ HY family of products will have superior conductivity on flexible

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Toshiba Corporation‘s Semiconductor and Storage Products Company today announced the launch of a new surface-mount package series in its line-up of low-voltage MOSFET products that use dual-sided cooling to improve heat dissipation. The shipment of the 4 new products in the “DSOP Advance package” series starts immediately. Recommended: NXP claims World-Thinnest Medium-Power Schottkys The new devices have a heat sink

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The STWBC digital controller for wireless battery charger (WBC) transmitters fromSTMicroelectronics, Inc. claims the most flexible and efficient solution for controlling power transfer from a WBC transmitter (TX) to a receiver (RX) in WBC-enabled phones, wearables, and other battery-powered devices that use electromagnetic induction for re-charge. As a member of the Qi Wireless Power Consortium and the PMA (Power Matters

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Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.announced today the availability of its next generation PowerTrench® MOSFETs for automotive applications in the high-power TO-Leadless (TO-LL) package (JEDEC MO-299). The innovative TO-LL technology offers an extremely low package resistance, a very small footprint, and allows for exceptionally good EMI behavior. Typical automotive power electronics applications for the TO-LL packaged devices include battery management for electric and

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Linear Technology Corporationannounces the LTC3899, a triple output (buck, buck, boost) 29µA quiescent current, synchronous dc-dc controller that maintains output voltage regulation over a 2.2V to 60V input range. A 12V car battery can droop to less than 4V during engine restart or cold crank, causing reset of infotainment systems and other electronics that operate from 5 V and higher.

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Acopian Power Supplies today announced the availability of the WN8B power supply, a member of the Narrow Profile, three-day power supply series of switching regulated power supplies. The ac-dc single-output units provide up to 75 Watts of output power, with convection cooling (no fans required). The convection-cooled design eliminates the need for fan maintenance, along with audible/ambient noise and vibrations.

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Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a new, low-cost prototyping kit that gives engineers unprecedented access to design with the powerful 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M3 core in Cypress’s PSoC® 5LP programmable system-on-chip architecture. The $10 CY8CKIT-059 Prototyping Kit delivers PSoC 5LP’s ability to reduce systems costs by integrating analog front-ends, digital logic and user interface ICs with the architecture’s programmable analog and

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TDK Corporation presents the EPCOS RingCap – a power capacitor with an innovative design that is especially suitable for xEV applications. Thanks to its ring configuration, the new RingCap can be integrated into a clutch bell housing or wheel hub motors. The dimensions of the capacitor can be adapted according to the specific requirements of the customer: The outer diameter

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Infineon Technologies AG has announced a family of robust 650V IGBTs that can deliver highest efficiency in fast switching automotive applications. The AEC-Q-qualified TRENCHSTOP™ 5 AUTO IGBTs will reduce power losses and improve reliability in electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications such as on-board charging, power factor correction (PFC), dc-dc and dc-ac conversion. Recommended: 3W Power Supplies

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Atmel Corporation today launched its next-generation CryptoAuthentication™ product. Atmel’s ATECC508A is the first device to integrate ECDH (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman) security protocol—an ultra-secure method to provide key agreement for encryption/decryption, along with ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) sign-verify authentication—for the Internet of Things (IoT) market including home automation, industrial networking, accessory and consumable authentication, medical, mobile and more. Atmel’s

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