BASF is expanding its range of engineering plastics for the dynamic market of electric and hybrid vehicles. Tailor-made Ultramid® and Ultradur® materials are now available globally for equipping vehicle-interior and -exterior ...
Tags: BASF, engineering plastics, coolants, flame retardant
University of Arkansas researchers are working on a promising new material to create more efficient photovoltaic solar cells to be used in space missions. Shui-Qing 'Fisher' Yu, associate professor of electrical engineering, will serve as ...
Tags: photoconductors, solar cell, SiGeSn
Since the beginning of 2015, the flame-retardant polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) Ultradur B4450 G5 (halogen-free) from BASF has been used in the mass production of the MiniSKiiP Dual power semiconductor modules from the company SEMIKRON. ...
Tags: BASF, PBT, thermoplastics
Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a provider of technology computer-aided design (TCAD), circuit simulation and IC CAD electronic design automation (EDA) software tools, is collaborating with the Singapore University of Technology and ...
BASF is expanding its expertise in top mounts to enable car manufacturers an optimum combination of weight savings, pleasant acoustics and vibration damping. The unique NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) solution is made possible by ...
Tags: BASF, Polyurethane-Bearing, Polyamide
Featuring sports-car derived chassis systems and evaluated on the same demanding roads as all other Jaguar vehicles, the new F-PACE is claimed to offer an unrivalled breadth of dynamic ability. This is said to be a performance crossover ...
Tags: sports-car, prototype vehicle
A multi-disciplinary research team led by Young Hee Lee, director of South Korea's Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), has devised a fabrication method for the ...
Tags: semiconductor, electronic products, transition-metal dichalcogenide
Seiko Instruments (SII) has announced the release of the S-19311 Series automotive high input 36V LDO regulator with reset function, adopting a newly developed compact package TO-252-5S with high heat dissipation. The S-19311 can be ...
Tags: auto parts, auto accessories, LDO Regulator
Using the newly released Ansys 16.2, engineers can now create virtual prototypes of complete systems, enabling them to make strides in innovation and unleash next-generation products within their industries. As products - from automobiles ...
Tags: smartphones, wearable technology
Joachim Piprek, founder & president of NUSOD Institute LLC in the USA, has run simulations that he believes eliminate electron leakage as the primary cause of efficiency droop at high current in blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Appl. ...
Test systems and position sensors suppliers MTS Systems Corporation and CATARC (China's Automotive Technology & Research Center) have consolidated their tie-up with the latter’s opening of a new test facility in China. Backed by the ...
Tags: position sensors, Test systems
The 2016 models of US automotive giant General Motors (GM) will offer 22 safety technologies, covering a range including driver alerts and night vision. All the technological advancements will be put to test by safety engineers at GM's ...
Tags: automotive, General Motors
Optitex, the leading provider of integrated 2D CAD and 3D digital product solutions for the textile industry, has released version O/15 of its O/Dev 3D Product Creation Suite. The upgraded software package enables fashion and apparel ...
Tags: textile manufacture, apparel and clothing, fashion design, pleats
DuPont Performance Polymers recently installed a 3D Suction blow-molding machine and a 450-ton injection molding machine in Asia-Pacific to strengthen its application development capabilities in the region. The 3D suction blow molding ...
Tags: 3D Suction, DuPont, chemiclas
NI (formerly AWR Corp) of El Segundo, CA, USA says that India-based RF/microwave module and sub-system maker Astra Microwave Products Ltd (AMPL) has designed an S-band gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) ...
Tags: AWR EDA, electric components, MMIC