High-performance graphene-based electrochemical capacitors that maintain excellent electrochemical attributes under high mechanical stress, have been developed by researchers at UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the ...
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Kemet has announced that it has received Conflict-Free Smelter (CFS) certification from the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Conflict-Free Smelter Audit Review Committee ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has introduced two power amplifiers (PAs) for point-to-point (PtP) ...
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
Tags: LED Lamp Driver, LED Lamp, LED
Vicor has introduced a buck regulator for point-of-load applications which is efficiency optimised for 12V input voltages. The Picor PI34XX series buck regulators will deliver 95% peak efficiency for 12V to 3.3V regulation and up to ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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Universal Lighting Technologies is based in Nashville, Tennessee and is part of the Panasonic family of companies. They design and manufacture high-efficiency lighting ballasts and control systems and produce electronic and magnetic ...
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ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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LENZING, Austria — January 10, 2013 — Lenzing AG and NanoCarbons LLC, Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA), will cooperate in the future to develop and explore the use of new activated carbons in electrode technology. This technology ...
Tags: Lenzing Partners, Nanocarbons LLC, Energy Storage Systems
Vishay has announced a rance of surface-mount 150°C (2,000hr life) aluminium electrolytic capacitors with resistance down to 35mΩ (100kHz) and ripple current to 1.35A. Called 160 CLA, the devices meet IPC/JEDEC J-STD-020 ...
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GE Lighting has rolled out its 2013 Lighting & Electrical Institute curriculum. Designers, facility managers, specifiers, consultants and other interested professionals are invited to learn about the latest innovations in lighting ...
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Emerging Irish fabless semiconductor technology company Ikon Semiconductor this week revealed a new integrated circuit (IC) design that could prove vital to the growing global LED lighting industry. Ikon’s new IC was unveiled at the ...
Tags: LED lighting market, LED lighting, LED lighting industry
Company launches simpler, smaller and less costly IC solution for dimmable LED retrofits Next week at Strategies in Light, the premier conference and exhibition for solid-state lighting (SSL), emerging fabless company, Ikon Semiconductor, ...
Tags: Lighting, LED, LED lighting
The inverter market grew significantly to $45bn in 2012, and will reach $71bn by 2020, according to Yole Développement in a report on ‘Inverter market trends for 2013-2020 and major technology changes’. “More than ...