Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded high-purity ammonia production capacity at a plant in Taiwan (owned by its manufacturing subsidiary) from 2500 tons per year to 3500 tons per year. SDK has three sites for producing ...
Tags: SDK High-purity ammonia GaN LEDs, Showa Denko, Electronics
Despite the apparent saturation of optical coherence tomography systems in the ophthalmology markets of developed countries, the distinct OCT market for healthcare and life science sectors is still expected to grow from around €500 ...
“The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by at least 10% minimum and overall industry turnover will exceed its sales forecast of about €1.8 billion by the end of this year,” stated Dr. Olaf Munkelt, ...
Tags: machine vision industry, Intelligent traffic systems, growth
VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has been selected by the European Commission to receive €1.97m in ...
Tags: VI Systems, SME Instrument
Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...
Micropacemaker is but another example of the how the trend of miniaturization is gaining momentum in healthcare. As medical devices become tinier, they may help the tiniest patients. The FDA has given humanitarian approval to the ...
Tags: Tiny Pacemaker, medical devices
ROHM of Kyoto, Japan says that its SCT2080KE silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET has been adopted in the new SiC-Pulser Series of ultra-high-voltage pulse generators launched by Japan's Fukushima SiC Applied Engineering Inc. Picture: ...
Tags: Pulse Generators, Generators
Swiss u-blox has revealed that that its Cat. 4 TOBY-L200 4G LTE module has achieved "network compatible" status for North Americas largest LTE network. In the u-blox tradition of miniaturization and reliability, TOBY-L200 is the world's ...
Tags: 4G LTE Module, Auto Parts
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched its large hybrid silicon carbide (SiC) transfer-mold dual in-line package intelligent power module (DIPIPM), which incorporates a SiC Schottky barrier diode (SBD) and seventh-generation IGBT ...
Tags: hybrid silicon carbide, dual in-line package intelligent power module
A miniaturized heart-failure monitor recently acquired by St. Jude Medical (St. Paul, MN) from an Atlanta-based startup named CardioMEMS reduced 30-day hospital readmission rates for patients over 65, according to an analysis of the ...
Tags: Heart Sensor, Readmission Rate
Despite the apparent saturation of optical coherence tomography systems in the ophthalmology markets of developed countries, the distinct OCT market for healthcare and life science sectors is still expected to grow from around €500 ...
Tags: OCT Systems, Electronics
China manufacturers of metallized film capacitors are strengthening the category, spurred by the forecast 15 percent annual sales growth in coming years. While most continue to enhance the performance of mature types, major players venture ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a transfer-molded super-mini dual in-line package power factor correction (DIPPFC) module incorporating silicon carbide (SiC) transistors and diodes that is expected to help reduce the power ...
Doing more with less is the mantra of our era. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the drive towards miniaturization in the next generation of electronic components and systems. The push for smaller parts is coming both from the need ...
Tags: Miniaturization, Electrical, Electronics
Now available from Farnell element14, Rubycon YXJ Series aluminium electrolytic capacitors cover a wider range of capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential ...
Tags: E-Caps, electronic equipment