At the 39th annual Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology (GOMACTech 2014) conference in Charleston, SC, USA (3 April), Alex Lidow, CEO & co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, ...
Tags: DC-DC Converter, EPC
Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
Tags: Solar Cells, InGaN
Compact Drives-Controls Solution for Platform-Supply Vessels Modular liquid-cooled drives and PLCs from ABB have been included in VARD ELECTRO's innovative, application-specific propulsion and thruster power solutions for offshore supply ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Platform-Supply Vessels, ABB
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, is launching the evolution of its FFLC Series medium power film capacitors for DC filtering applications. Available in large case sizes up to 35 ...
At last year’s IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) introduced the first - and only - ...
Tags: Transphorm GaN-on-Si, Electrical
In the last century, silicon-based power electronics (which control or convert electrical energy into usable power) transformed the computing, communication, electric vehicle and energy industries and gave consumers and businesses more ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Semiconductors
At 29th annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2014) in Fort Worth, TX, USA (16-20 March), Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon ...
A UK-based company is developing solar-cell technology that could help advance the market for integrating solar energy-harvesting glass into commercial buildings. Oxford Photovoltaics (PV) -- co-founded by Oxford University physicist ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced the EPC9013 development ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs
Ammono S.A. of Warsaw, Poland, which produces bulk gallium nitride (GaN) using ammonothermal technology, has announced that it is partnering with Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA and MicroLink Devices of Niles, IL, USA in two novel ...
Tags: efficiency of power electronics, semiconductor materials
Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more ...
Tags: battery, renewable energy, grid-scale battery, metal-free flow battery
Due to their rapid improvements in a short amount of time, perovskite solar cells have become one of today's most promising up-and-coming photovoltaic technologies. Currently, the record efficiency for a perovskite solar cell is 15% and ...
Tags: perovskite solar cells, photovoltaic technology, perovskite material
A group of researchers led by Hendrik Bolink of the Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) of the Scientific Park of the University of Valencia has developed a thin film low cost photovoltaic device with high power conversion ...
Tags: Hendrik Bolink, Institut de Ciència Molecular, photovoltaic device
Power electronics maker FINsix Corporation has announced the development of what is being called the world's smallest laptop adaptor—one that is just a quarter the size of traditional models and just a sixth the weight—it comes ...
Tags: FINsix Corporation, world's smallest laptop adaptor, laptop adaptor