Revenue for the integrated-motors market is projected to reach $553 million by 2017, up from less than $400 million in 2012. Brushless motors currently lead the way in growth, as shown in the attached figure, with more than 70 percent of ...
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Nitride Solutions Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, which manufactures bulk and template nitride materials for LEDs, lasers and power electronics, has achieved the first commercial sales of its new AT-50 aluminium nitride (AlN) template product to a ...
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Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University has developed a titanium nitride/copper (TiN/Cu) gate structure for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that shows improvements over a comparison ...
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Ian Williams, Linear Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments tackles printed circuit board (PCB) solder flux issues that affect circuit functionality in a recent blog entry. When troubleshooting non-functional or poorly performing ...
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Smuttynose Brewing, a US-based craft brewery, has partnered with Craft Beer Guild Distributing of California and El Dorado Distributing to expand the distribution of its beers to California. The company will ship its bottled Big Beer ...
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Modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared with those based on silicon (Si). Advantages include increased power density per volume and ...
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Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation (MBC), a wholesale open-access network transport provider, has expanded its network in the mid-Atlantic region with connections in Washington and Richmond, Virginia. MBC has expanded the ...
Tanzania is still working on its plan to establish soda ash processing plant along Lake Natron ecosystem in Longido and Monduli districts of Arusha, because of its socio-economic importance. Arusha Regional Commissioner (RC), Magesa ...
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Contract IC fabricator TowerJazz and power management IC vendor DMB Technology have announced an AC-LED driver IC while analog IC specialist Linear Technology has developed a DC LED driver with spread-spectrum frequency modulation that ...
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NliteN has just added the dimmable 2D-Lux™ Smart LED Disk (SLEDD) to its campaign on Indiegogo. The 2D-Lux SLEDD, a 60W-incandescent-replacement LED smart "bulb", adds an Atmel AVR microcontroller, USB interface, and ...
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Tim Gubbins from Moyston in Victoria has been awarded a Nuffield Scholarship supported by Australian Wool Innovation. As part of the scholarship Mr Gubbins will study the Merino breed with a specific focus on the period from conception ...
American electric drive system technology developer Balqon has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Polar Power to produce series plug in hybrid system for its line of heavy duty electric trucks and buses. As part of the agreement, ...
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ROHM Semiconductor of Santa Clara, CA (the US arm of system LSI, discrete components and module product maker ROHM Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) has launched two 80milliOhm 1200V silicon carbide MOSFETs, the SCT2080KE and SCH2080KE, designed to ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC2018 as the newest member of its family of enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs). The EPC2018 is a ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
Few parts of the world house data centres that require air conditioning, and operators need to "push the envelope a little harder" to stop using it. This is the view fo Frank Frankovsky, vice president of hardware design and supply chain at ...
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