At this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), taking place March 17-19 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX, API will be showcasing our Power Systems and Electromagnetic Integrated Solutions (EIS) ...
In space electronics, reliability and payload budget are driving factors in system design. Mission-critical applications require dependable components with a proven electrical and mechanical track record in harsh environments. However, as ...
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Greenville-based electronics components maker AVX Corp. filed a shelf registration statement for nearly $141 million on its S-8 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. The statement will allow AVX to issue up to 11 ...
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Old materials are new again as companies scramble to replace polycarbonate dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to ...
SOUTH KOREA: Metro operators in Seoul, Daejon and Incheon have achieved power savings of more than 20% using ultracapacitor braking energy recuperation technology, according to ultracapacitor manufacturer Maxwell Technologies. Up to 200 ...
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The demand in electric cars has been a source of good news for several companies like Maxwell Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:MXWL). The demand for electric cars is expected to provide for a secondary demand boost for the company’s products ...
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Vishay’s MKP386 metallized polypropylene film snubberCapacitors used independently or with other circuit elements to suppress voltage transients in electrical circuits. capacitors are now available from Farnell element14. They benefit ...
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Woojin Industrial Systems, a leading manufacturer of electric rail vehicles and rail system equipment, has completed installation of its energy storage system (ESS) ultracapacitor-based braking energy recuperation systems in seven Metro ...
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in the future in what is called MRAM (magnetic random access memory), use ...
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Introduction A glass material becomes smart glass when it is coated or laminated with some smart material or when sensors or other electronics are embedded into it. Smart glass has found used in buildings as well as in vehicles. This ...
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Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property ...
Yole Developpement has forecasted that the grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. materials market will ...
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A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages that modulates into light waves. A fiber optic is made out of glass. The glass used in making optic cable is in its purest form. ...
Two years ago, researchers from Iowa State University (USA) published a study which concluded that spider silk conducts heat as well as metals. Now, a team from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) has repeated the experiment and ...
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