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Something U Should Know About Laptop Battery
Nov 5, 2015
No matter how well you treat your laptop’s battery, it will eventually die. If you’re lucky, it will be time to replace your laptop by the time its battery dies. If you’re not, you’ll need to replace the battery. Battery death can seem ...

Tags: Laptop Battery, Battery
Ultra-Thin Charger: Thin, Also Can Give You Energy!
Jun 19, 2015
How thin the charger treasure? 3.9 mm, the thickness of the two round coin, is about 1/3 of the apple 6. Its capacity is also good - 5000mah, suitable for mobile phones, and larger capacity of electronic devices such as tablet; and has ...

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Japan's Rohm Started Mass Production of Silicon Carbide Mosfet
Jun 9, 2015
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 ...

Tags: ROHM Semiconductor SiC power MOSFET, Sic Mosfet
CEA-Leti Demonstrated a Path to Fabricating High-Density Micro-LED Arrays
Jun 8, 2015
At SID's Display Week 2015 event in San Jose, CA, USA (31 May-5 June), Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France announced that it has demonstrated a path to fabricating high-density micro-LED arrays for the next ...

Tags: Leti III-V lab microLED, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Power Electronics Will Continue Their Domination of The Markets with an 87% Market Share
Jun 4, 2015
Driven by technology innovations, silicon-based power electronics will continue their domination of the fastest-growing and largest markets, allowing silicon to maintain an 87% market share, worth $20bn by 2024, and constraining ...

Tags: GaN SiC Power electronics, Electrical, Electronics
More Efficient Energy Storage Can Be Achieved by Graphene-Based Supercap
Mar 6, 2015
Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See CoulombA coulomb is the unit of electric ...

Tags: Electrical
Supercapacitor Device Can Be Disposed in a Wellbore Through a Fluid-Producing Formation
Feb 23, 2015
Certain aspects and features of the present invention are directed to a supercapacitor device that can be disposed in a wellbore through a fluid-producing formation. The supercapacitor device can include a body that can be disposed in ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Passivating Nitride Transistors Without Vacuum Processing
Aug 11, 2014
Researchers in Taiwan have applied a non-vacuum process to deposit aluminium oxide (Al2O3) passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Bo-Yi Chou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
Silicon Carbide Bipolar Opamp Performance at 500ºC
Aug 2, 2014
Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has created a monolithic operational amplifier circuit using 4H polytype silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) [Raheleh Hedayati et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol35, ...

Tags: SiC SiC BJTs, Electrical, Electronics
Gallium Nitride Thin-Film Transistors Produced at Less Than 250ºC
Jul 10, 2014
Turkey's Bilkent University has used hollow-cathode plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (HCPA-ALD) to make gallium nitride (GaN) thin-film transistors (TFTs) at temperatures below 250&deg;C [S. Bolat et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...

Tags: HCPA-ALD GaN Thin-film transistors, Electrical, Electronics, Transistors
50W Compact Multi-Chip Laser Module for Projectors
Jul 3, 2014
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensurg, Germany has introduced what it claims is the first compact laser multi-chip package. The new PLPM4 450 module can pack up to 20 blue laser chips into a single butterfly package for projection ...

Tags: Osram Blue laser diode Projectors, Projectors
Mitsubishi Electric Develops Red Laser for Projectors
Jul 3, 2014
At the Laser Display Conference (LDC 2014) at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan (19-20 June), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is presenting a 638nm-wavelength? red laser diode (LD) with what is claimed to be record ...

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New Small-Cell Pas and LTE/WiFi Coexistence Filters
Jun 30, 2014
Avago Technologies Ltd (a supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications), has announced four new RF power amplifiers (PAs) for small-cell base transceiver station (BTS) ...

Tags: Avago Small-cell base stations PAs
About The Maxwell Ultracap Boasts 3400-Farad
Jun 17, 2014
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. has added to the company's K2 series of ultracapacitor cells with a 2.85-volt, 3400-faradUnit of capacitance. The basic unit of a measure of a capacitor. A capacitor charged to 1 volt with a charge of 1 coulombA ...

Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Sic-Based ICS Operable at Over 350ºC
Jun 16, 2014
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350&deg;C (about 660&deg;F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...

Tags: SiC Power electronics HEV, Electrical, Electronics, circuits