Automotive supplier Continental has secured a contract to supply electric powertrain for the new pure electric vehicle (EV) Renault Zoe. The vehicle will be powered by the synchronous electric motor from Continental that generates an ...
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Starting in late 2011, the power electronics downturn in 2012 was quite severe, exhibiting a 20% drop. The market suffered from the global economic downturn, combined with external factors such as China controlling what happened in some ...
Automotive supplier Continental has signed a contract with the Swiss high-tech industrial Group Oerlikon for the joint development and marketing of integrated motor and transmission systems for hybrid and electric vehicles. With the ...
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UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), part of Oxford Instruments plc, has completed its series of Asian seminars in Beijing, China and Hsinchu, Taiwan, attracting a record total ...
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LAST POWER (Large Area silicon-carbide Substrates and heTeroepitaxial GaN for POWER device applications), the European Union-sponsored program aimed at developing a cost-effective and reliable technology for power electronics, has announced ...
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Under the award of £250,000 in matched funding from the UK Innovation Agency – Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Cambridge Nanotherm is to build its first prototype manufacturing plant in Haverhill, UK. Cambridge Nanotherm has ...
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Electronics thermal management innovator Cambridge Nanotherm is to build its first prototype manufacturing plant in Haverhill, UK following the award of 250,000 in matched funding from the UK Innovation Agency - Technology Strategy Board ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA is introducing what it says is the first commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) six-pack power module in an industry standard 45mm package. Picture: Cree’s SiC six-pack power module. When ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) says that Fumihide ‘Humi’ Esaka will join the firm as its new CEO, starting 1 July. Transphorm reckons that ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that it has begun shipping three new types of silicon carbide (SiC) power module for home appliances, industrial equipment and railcar traction systems. The modules, which use Schottky barrier ...
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3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack Obama thinks it can also play a role in strengthening the military and America's sagging ...
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Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for first-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm's ongoing ...
April 29, 2013 - The EMerge Alliance—an industry association helping to adopt safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings—has announced 21 new members and 39 new products for DC power ...
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling more than £823,800m to two universities for the project ‘Novel High Thermal Conductivity Substrates for GaN Electronics: ...
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