ROHM of Kyoto, Japan is to provide full-SiC (silicon carbide) power modules to the VENTURI Formula E team during season 4 (2017–2018) of FIA Formula E (the world’s first formula racing championship for all-electric vehicles), ...
Tags: Power Modules, silicon carbide
Solar-Tectic LLC of Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA says that the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted it US patent 15/205,316 ‘Method of Growing III-V Semiconductor Films for Tandem Solar Cells’ for high-efficiency and ...
Tags: Thin-film PV, Glass Substrate
Sonoscan has shipped the first of its new D9600Z C-SAM systems. This new model is designed expressly to facilitate the imaging of IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) power modules. Power modules, such as IGBTs, are basically ...
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As the notebook industry is seeing declining shipments, Taiwan-based battery maker Simplo Technology is now eyeing the automobile, motorcycle and bicycle industries. Simplo already has technologies to make batteries for electric ...
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US-based automobile maker GM has been conducting R&D with professionals in different industries on the possibility of storing energy on used automobile lithium batteries. Digitimes Research believes if the R&D is successful, it will lower ...
Tags: automobile maker, GM, used automobile lithium batteries, storing energy
All dollar amounts stated below are in United States dollars. Third Quarter Ended March 31, 2012 Financial Highlights: The net loss for the third quarter ended March 31, 2012 totaled $5.3 million or $0.12 per share as compared to a net ...
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Toshiba aims to start mass production next April of a high-iron concentration samarium-cobalt magnet that is free of dysprosium,a rare earth mineral that is in extremely short supply and increasingly expensive. At typical operating ...
Tags: Toshiba to Mass, dysprosium, electric automobiles, magnets
Automotive ICs have remained a bright spot for the industry and should be almost a$20bn market this year,says IC Insights. One of the silver linings to the automotive downturn in 2008 was that it initiated a massive and perhaps long ...
Tags: Automotive ICs, automakers, EV, HEV, green initiative