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High-voltage Ceramic Capacitor Line Adds New Sizes
High-voltage ceramic capacitors offer additional case sizes and increased capacitances with voltages up to 2,000 V.
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Shatter-Resistant LED Bulb Introduced to Withstand Rugged Environments
Lighting Science’s new Durabulb can be used in the home but is tough enough to be used in industrial applications.
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Nvidia Reveals Details to its Autonomous Driving Chip
The Parker system-on-chip consists of two 64-bit Denver processors paired with four 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 CPUs.
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Membrane May Give Electric Cars More Miles per Minute of Charging
“Smart” membrane keeps rechargeable batteries from discharging when not in use and allows for rapid recharging.
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New Energy Storage Material Developed for Electric Vehicles
The key to boosting energy storage in electric and hybrid vehicles may be a polymer sandwich.
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Synaptics SecurePad Now on High-Performance Clevo Notebooks
Natural ID Biometric Authentication Integrated with TouchPad, Enabling Users to Replace Unsafe Passwords.
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Buck-Boost DC/DC Converters Consume Only 1.6 µA of Quiescent Current
Linear Technology’s LTC3130?and?LTC3130-1?synchronous current mode buck-boost converters deliver up to 600 mA of continuous output current and have user selectable Burst Mode® operation to lower quiescent current to only 1.6 µA.
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Liquid Cooling Systems and Temperature Controllers Meet Semiconductor Fabrication Needs
Laird offers liquid-to-liquid thermal management solutions that provide precise temperature control and stability for semiconductor process equipment.
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Smart Windows Will Control Heat and Sunlight
The material allows for windows to control both heat and light from the sun, with the goal of saving on cooling and heating bills in homes and businesses.
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Stacked Deep PhotoDiode Process Introduced for CMOS Image Sensors
Pure-play foundry TowerJazz will use the process for next-generation image sensors with very high near infrared (NIR) sensitivity.
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Through-Hole IR Receivers Offer Improved Optical Performance and RF Noise Rejection
Vishay’s TSOP33xxx and TSOP53xxx series IR receivers combine the high RF noise rejection of Minicast receivers with the optical performance of Mold package devices.
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ON Semi Receives Accolades for Diversity
The company has two of the highest-ranking women executives in the state of Arizona.
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Consortium Plans to Triple Specific Energy in Lithium-Metal Batteries
Battery500 consortium to triple energy stored in lithium-metal cells.
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DC link capacitor for new IGBT modules
The EPCOS DC link capacitor, designed for Infineon’s HybridPACK™ 1-DC6 IGBT module, has six busbar terminals with dimensions that are matched precisely to fit the IGBT module.
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Fujitsu Launches Solution to Detect Sewer-System Flooding due to Torrential Rain
Fujitsu’s flood solution uses a sensor attached within a sewer manhole to collect water-level data, and wireless communications that transmit this data to the cloud every five minutes.
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1350 V IGBTs Optimized for Soft-Switching Apps
Low saturation voltage and optimal switching characteristics deliver higher efficiencies and improved performance
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Purifying Carbon Nanotubes for Electronic Devices
A new process for separating semiconducting from metallic carbon nanotubes could accelerate their use in electronic devices.
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Wireless Sensors Could Improve Railroad Crossing Safety, Cost
Wireless sensor networks could improve safety and greatly reduce the costs of installing and maintaining railroad crossing mechanisms.
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Mouser, Amphenol LTW Sign Global Distribution Agreement
Mouser Electronics has agreed to carry Amphenol LTW’s connectors used in rugged and harsh environmental applications.
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Intel Ups Artificial Intelligence Game with Deep-Learning “Knights Mill” Processor
To enable AI, Intel has also rolled out its first Silicon Photonics 100G optical transceivers.
