British automaker Jaguar Land Rover has launched its first ever zero emission plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the new Range Rover Sport. The plug-in hybrid offers a total power of 404hp (297kW). It is claimed to have a fuel economy of ...
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Honda Foundation (a public-interest incorporated foundation created by Honda Motor Co Ltd’s founder Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda) says that the Honda Prize 2017 will be awarded to Kyoto University professor ...
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“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
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State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
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At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit, together with its affiliate Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, in the US District Court for the Central District of California asserting that Archipelago Lighting Inc is selling ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to expand its facilities for producing high-quality-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices - which have already been marketed under the trade name High-Grade Epi (HGE) - ...
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As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
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Bosch has revealed what it describes as a start-up powertrain for electric vehicles. It’s now common knowledge that a more powerful battery will increase an electric car’s range. But can a new powertrain have a comparable ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched the SKY66403-11, its newest 2.4GHz fully integrated RF front-end module (FEM), designed to support ZigBee, Thread and ...
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PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private partners from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy (DoE), national laboratories and academia — in early August selected Navitas ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has added the SKY12239-11 voltage-controlled variable attenuator (VVA) to its series of broadband, flat-attenuation, high-IIP3 ...
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Wolfspeed of Raleigh, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products and GaN-on-SiC high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) — has extended its ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...
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 announced the availability of a ...