Batteries & Other Energy Storage Devices
August 2020
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Figure 1. Remote Soil Moisture Monitor Used in Smart Agriculture
If you can identify with the feeling of “sleeping with one eye on the clock”, you will know how it prevents you from getting that deep sleep needed to maintain your energy levels, leaving you feeling drained for most of the following day. Key to achieving that all-important deep sleep state is emptying your mi
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08/31/2020
CBI Battery Match is helping the energy storage sector find the best lead battery for their system
A ground-breaking new battery ‘match’ service is set to help utility companies choose the most suitable batteries as partners for their energy storage schemes.
CBI Battery Match has been designed and built by the Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI) – the global advanced lead battery research
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08/24/2020
mophie unveiled four new universal power solutions designed to charge mobile devices at the fastest speed possible. The powerstation, powerstation XXL, powerstation wireless XL, and powerstation wireless stand each feature the ability to charge multiple devices through a versatile USB-C PD input/output port and
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08/20/2020
Transphorm Inc. announced its second 900 V GaN FET is now in production. The TP90H050WS offers a typical on-resistance of 50 milliohms with a one kilovolt transient spike rating and is now JEDEC qualified. The primary target markets are broad industrial and renewable energy, including applications such as photovoltaic in
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08/20/2020
Yalcin Bulut, VP of Global Sales and Marketing at UnitedSiC
UnitedSiC has announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Macnica, Inc. Macnica will partner with UnitedSiC to distribute its product portfolio to Japanese customers in high-growth applications such as electric vehicles, battery charging, IT infrastructure, renewable energy and circuit protection.
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08/19/2020
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced the first-ever -30 V p-channel power MOSFET to offer on-resistance of 1.7 mΩ at 10 V. With its industry-low on-resistance and 6.15 mm by 5.15 mm thermally enhanced PowerPAK SO-8 single package, the Vishay Siliconix TrenchFET Gen IV SiRA99DP is purpose-built to increase po
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08/17/2020
Researchers hope that new materials help to build safe and durable high-performance cells.
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite crystal structure (LLTO). As the team reported in the Nature Communications journal, LLT
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08/09/2020
TDK Corporation presents a new range of Open Mode chip varistors for electronic automotive assemblies that are directly connected to the battery. The new chip varistors offer reliable protection against transient surge voltages according to ISO 7637-2 and meet the failsafe requirements according to the VW standard VW
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Date:
08/06/2020
An example of Cadenza's Li-ion racks and batteries.
Validating the safety features of its patented lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology, Cadenza Innovation announced that UL9540A testing verifies that the company’s supercell battery architecture stops propagation when thermal runaway is induced inside the battery itself.
By doing so, Cadenza’s technology solves a
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Date:
08/06/2020
Ron MacDonald, the President and CEO of Zinc8 Energy Solutions
It’s no exaggeration to say that more robust batteries will power the future. But how do we reach that new electronic renaissance? Will lithium ion fit the bill or should we consider alternatives?
Date:
08/06/2020
The transistor process technology will be the foundation for the success of British and worldwide industries in all sectors.
The grant has been made by the ‘Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge’ program, part of UKRI’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The aim of the initiative is to position the UK
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Date:
08/05/2020
Just in time for the World Environment Day, an electric truck was commissioned at the Regensburg site after two weeks of testing. The vehicle of the logistics partner Kühne+Nagel will drive the distance between the factory premises and an external warehouse in the east of the city four times per working day. Thu
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08/05/2020
The new connectors are available in various blade designs, orientations and dimensions and are intended for current flows up to 16 A and working voltages up to 300 V.
Straight or angled contacts in various numbers are available — for the common 6.3 mm blade receptacles but also for the 2.8 mm version. Fo
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Date:
08/05/2020
The transducers can be used for applications such as power analysers in EV production, medical equipment such as MRI scanners and power supplies for particle accelerators.
The video explains zero flux technology, also called ‘fluxgate’ and how it works, including the use of a closed loop which balances opposi
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Date:
08/05/2020
These new parts provide low radiated emissions and enable solutions that meet EMC compliance with fewer board spins and budget overruns. The transceivers’ simplified PCB layout and small SOIC form factor pack more functionality into space constrained applications than the previous generation as well as current
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08/05/2020
The MDA3KP is a 3kW diode family of more than 25 products with different screening levels, polarities and qualification standards.
Microchip’s MDA3KP TVS diode array family – the only available technology offering a comprehensive voltage range tested to a high reliability standard and qualified based on the MIL-PRF-1
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Date:
08/05/2020
For safe use in industrial applications, Würth Elektronik has now published a circuit layout with transformers as galvanic isolation. The solution has an isolation of 1.5 kV/60 s and is therefore fully suitable for industrial applications, unlike previous circuits that use two 50 V capacitors as galvanic isolation.
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Date:
08/05/2020
NAWA Technologies’ NAWACap ultracapacitors are based on carbon and use a material that is abundant, recyclable and environmentally friendly. The NAWACaps can be packaged into small, flat cells and withstand extremes of temperature and the harshest environments, through deep sea to deep space. They also match i
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Date:
08/05/2020
The AEC-Q101 range of devices available cuts across all Nexperia’s product groups and includes switching, Schottky, Zener and protection diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), N- and P-channel MOSFETs, resistor-equipped transistors and LED drivers.
Automotive qualified discrete leadless packages offer
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Date:
08/05/2020
Small and flexible flat-ribbon cables are widely used in LCD screens, board-to-board connections for medical equipment, test and measurement devices, industrial applications, entertainment electronics, and the broadest conceivable range of other types of devices. In many of these applications, it’s not important
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Date:
08/05/2020
This product lineup is compatible with AEC-Q200, a reliability test qualification standard for automotive passive components.
We have sophisticated various types of elemental technologies nurtured by us to improve the temperature characteristics of X7R (operating temperature range: -55 to 125°C) in our onv
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Date:
08/05/2020
The DTMOSVI series has already gained a lot of market traction thanks to an excellent ratio of on-resistance and support for elevated switching speeds.
The 650V-rated TK110N65Z, TK110Z65Z, TK110A65Z, TK125V65Z, TK155A65Z, TK170V65Z, TK190A65Z and TK210V65Z devices all possess highly appealing performance parameters. These MOSFETs present en
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Date:
08/05/2020
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced sample shipment availability of the new RYZ012 Bluetooth module targeting ultra-low power IoT applications. The RYZ012 is Renesas' first Bluetooth Low Energy 5 module. It integrates a 2.4 GHz RF transceiver supporting the IEEE802.15.4 multi-standard wireless protocol, Blu
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Date:
08/04/2020
The National Science Foundation has awarded Utah State University a five-year, $26 million grant, renewable to 10-year, $50.6 million, to develop an international research center dedicated to advancing sustainable, electrified transportation. The center is expected to raise more than $200 million over the next decade in government and industry support.
The grant establishes an Engineering Research Center focused on developing new infrastructure that facilitates widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The center is named ASPIRE — Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification.
“ASPIRE represents the very best of what a research university brings to the state and community,” said USU President Noelle E. Cockett. “The center will provide unprecedented opportuniti
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Date:
08/04/2020
CDE’s Illinois Capacitor brand DGH Series of supercapacitors has been its most popular to date, with a winning combination of low ESR and low cost. Now, the line has been expanded, with capacitance values up to 600 Farads. The DGH Series includes 24 different value/voltage combinations, ranging in capacitance fro
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Date:
08/03/2020
Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD
Welcome to the combined July/August issue of PSD! It’s been a very strange year. All trade shows have been cancelled because of coronavirus, and many companies are trying to be innovative with their launches. There have been a few virtual events and even virtual trade shows over the past couple of months. Tho
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Date:
08/01/2020
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