Industry News

April 2024

New Yorker and Major League Electronics Sign New Franchised Distribution Agreement

Barry Slivka, President of New Yorker Electronics

New Yorker and Major League Electronics Sign New Franchised Distribution Agreement

New Yorker Electronics, global distributor of electronic components, recently announced a new franchised distribution agreement with Major League Electronics, renowned manufacturer of interconnect products. Founded in 1993 and located in New Albany, Indiana, USA, Major League Electronics offers an extremely wi

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04/30/2024

IDTechEx Research Analyzes the Increasingly Overcrowded EV Fire Protection Market

IDTechEx benchmarks various properties of over 130 fire protection materials. Source: IDTechEx

IDTechEx Research Analyzes the Increasingly Overcrowded EV Fire Protection Market

Dr James Edmondson, Research Director at IDTechEx

The protection of electric vehicle (EV) batteries from thermal runaway and fire is an important topic. Safety is paramount for the automotive industry and regulations are starting to catch up, implementing escape times and other measures to improve safety. The large variety in battery pack designs and OEM re

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04/30/2024

Battery Metals Market Size is Projected to Reach $27,362.25 million by 2031

Battery Metals Market Size is Projected to Reach $27,362.25 million by 2031

Battery Metals Market Size is Projected to Reach $27,362.25 million by 2031

Battery metals are the unprocessed materials needed to produce batteries, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite. Batteries for consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and other uses are increasingly using these battery metals. Lithium metal can be discovered in brine and hard rock deposits in

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04/29/2024

Escape the Vapes: Scientists Call for Global Shift to Curb Consumer Use of Disposable Technologies

Escape the Vapes: Scientists Call for Global Shift to Curb Consumer Use of Disposable Technologies

Escape the Vapes: Scientists Call for Global Shift to Curb Consumer Use of Disposable Technologies

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

Scientists have called for a concerted global effort to stem the tide of disposable electronic technologies – such as vapes – contributing to international waste accumulation and environmental degradation. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from across the UK have highlighted how disposabl

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04/29/2024

Built-in Bionic Computing

Artificial muscles control rich soft component dynamics by using them as a computational resource.

Built-in Bionic Computing

KYOTO UNIVERSITY

Creating robots to safely aid disaster victims is one challenge; executing flexible robot control that takes advantage of the material's softness is another. The use of pliable soft materials to collaborate with humans and work in disaster areas has drawn much recent attention. However, controlling soft dyn

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04/29/2024

New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones

A wind LiDAR for collecting data on wind energy, weather and air movements.

New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

As summer approaches, electricity demand surges in the U.S., as homes and businesses crank up the air conditioning. To meet the rising need, many East Coast cities are banking on offshore wind projects the country is building in the Atlantic Ocean. For electric grid operators, knowing how much wind power the

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04/29/2024

This Tiny Chip Can Safeguard User Data while Enabling Efficient Computing on a Smartphone

Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT’s chief innovation and strategy officer, dean of the School of Engineering

This Tiny Chip Can Safeguard User Data while Enabling Efficient Computing on a Smartphone

Adam Zewe, MIT News

Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. However, these apps can be slow and energy-inefficient because the vast machine-learning models that power them must be shuttled between a smartphone and a central memory se

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04/26/2024

Nextracker and JENNMAR Subsidiary JM Steel Bolster U.S. Supply Chain with New Facility Expansion to Triple Capacity for Solar Energy Projects

A factory worker on the Nextracker-dedicated line at JM Steel’s Leetsdale steel facility. (Photo: Nextracker)

Nextracker and JENNMAR Subsidiary JM Steel Bolster U.S. Supply Chain with New Facility Expansion to Triple Capacity for Solar Energy Projects

Nextracker and JENNMAR Holdings ("JENNMAR”) subsidiary JM Steel, a premier steel processing provider, jointly announced the completion of a major expansion of Nextracker-dedicated manufacturing lines at JM Steel’s Leetsdale steel facility achieving 4 GW of capacity. Inaugurated and reopened in 2022,

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04/26/2024

Wireless Trains and Fuel Economy - IDTechEx Explores the Potential Behind Electric and Zero-Emission Trains

Wireless Trains and Fuel Economy - IDTechEx Explores the Potential Behind Electric and Zero-Emission Trains

Wireless Trains and Fuel Economy - IDTechEx Explores the Potential Behind Electric and Zero-Emission Trains

IDTechEx

Trains that could travel to more tucked-away parts of the country with zero emissions are an example of the potential behind battery electric (BEV) and fuel cell (FC) trains. The benefits to the environment, alongside businesses removing long-term fuel costs, could make this advancement even more worthwhile. Fuel economy a

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04/26/2024

Triad Semiconductor Launches Advanced Design Center in Pocatello, Idaho

Powering Innovation: Triad Semiconductor Launches Advanced Design Center in Pocatello, Idaho

Triad Semiconductor Launches Advanced Design Center in Pocatello, Idaho

Triad Semiconductor, Inc., a pioneer in analog mixed-signal integrated circuit designs, has announced the opening of its new design center located in the heart of Pocatello, Idaho. Nestled within The Sterling Building at 353 North Fourth Avenue, the facility began operations in early April, marking a significant st

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04/26/2024

Future Market Penetration of the Redox Flow Battery

Future Market Penetration of the Redox Flow Battery

Future Market Penetration of the Redox Flow Battery

Conrad Nichols, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx

The evolution of the redox flow battery over several decades has seen various chemistries being developed, commercialized, or even abandoned due to factors such as poor electrochemical reversibility and cross-contamination of active species. The vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has prevailed as the most wi

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04/25/2024

Researchers Develop Game-Changing Prototype for Energy Storage

The pullout shows a capacitor prototype with stratified 2D nanofillers embedded in the polymer matrix being tested in a University of Houston lab.

Researchers Develop Game-Changing Prototype for Energy Storage

In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from the University of Houston, Jackson State University and Howard University have developed a new type of flexible high-energy-density ca

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04/25/2024

Researchers Develop High-Energy-Density Aqueous Battery Based on Halogen Multi-Electron Transfer

Multi-electron transfer cathode based on bromo and iodine

Researchers Develop High-Energy-Density Aqueous Battery Based on Halogen Multi-Electron Transfer

Traditional non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries have a high energy density, but their safety is compromised due to the flammable organic electrolytes they utilize. Aqueous batteries use water as the solvent for electrolytes, significantly enhancing the safety of the batteries. However, due to the limited s

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04/25/2024

Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste

Materials scientist Qingpu Wang of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and his colleagues developed a nontoxic method to recover va

Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste

DOE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY

There’s some irony in the fact that devices that seem indispensable to modern life—mobile phones, personal computers, and anything battery-powered—depend entirely on minerals extracted from mining, one of the most ancient of human industries. Once their usefulness is spent, we typically return these ob

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04/25/2024

Research Reveals Tools to Make STEM Degrees more Affordable

Research Reveals Tools to Make STEM Degrees more Affordable

Research Reveals Tools to Make STEM Degrees more Affordable

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

In a new study in Issues, Dominique J. Baker, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware, explored the role of student loans on hopeful students striving for college de

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04/25/2024

A New Chapter in Quantum Vortices: Customizing Electron Vortex Beams

Schematic of the generation of structured Electron Vortices.

A New Chapter in Quantum Vortices: Customizing Electron Vortex Beams

COMPUSCRIPT LTD

In recent years, the scientific community has witnessed a notable breakthrough in the study and development of electron vortices. Electron vortices are electron beams that carry orbital angular momentum, meaning the electrons move not only in their propagation direction but also rotate in a vortex-like manner. Th

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04/25/2024

Secretary Haaland Announces New Five-Year Offshore Wind Leasing Schedule

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland

Secretary Haaland Announces New Five-Year Offshore Wind Leasing Schedule

In remarks at the International Partnering Forum conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will announce a new five-year offshore wind leasing schedule, which includes up to 12 potential offshore wind energy lease sales through 2028. Future offshore wind energy le

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04/24/2024

Dedication to a Research Journey Towards Commercial Aqueous Batteries

XIE does assembly and testing of flow batteries in the laboratory

Dedication to a Research Journey Towards Commercial Aqueous Batteries

DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY SCIENCES

"I chose to study for a PhD here because of a summer camp in 2014," said XIE Congxin, who received a PhD from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is now an Associate Professor at DICP. In 2014, as a junior student at Shandong University, XIE parti

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04/24/2024

Hey Dave, I've got an Idea for You. What's the Potential of AI-led Workshopping?

Hey Dave, I've got an Idea for You. What's the Potential of AI-led Workshopping?

Hey Dave, I've got an Idea for You. What's the Potential of AI-led Workshopping?

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY

In a paper published in JOSPT Open (Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy), UTS Graduate School of Health Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy Dr Joshua Pate and PhD candidate Rebecca Fechner write that AI chatbots offer a novel avenue for idea generation, simulating multidisciplinary workshops that tr

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04/24/2024

International Balance of Power Determined by Chinese Control Over Emerging Technologies, Study Shows

Maria Papageorgiou from the University of Exeter

International Balance of Power Determined by Chinese Control Over Emerging Technologies, Study Shows

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

The fierce competition between China and the United States of America for control of emerging technologies such as AI and 5G will determine the international balance of power, a new study says. Developments in quantum computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data have transformed the global order and have

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04/24/2024

Advancing High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning

YiRang Shin (left) and Pengfei Song in the Song Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Credit: Elizabeth Bello, Beckman Institute Communications Office.

Advancing High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning

BECKMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology developed a new technique to make ultrasound localization microscopy, an emerging diagnostic tool used for high-resolution microvascular imaging, more practical for clinical settings. Their method uses deep learning to advance in the po

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04/24/2024

Wolfspeed Tops Out World's Largest, Most Advanced Silicon Carbide Facility Alongside Senator Thom Tillis, Key Officials

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Wolfspeed President and CEO Gregg Lowe in signing ceremonial “last beam” at the Topping Out ceremony for The John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide

Wolfspeed Tops Out World's Largest, Most Advanced Silicon Carbide Facility Alongside Senator Thom Tillis, Key Officials

Wolfspeed, Inc. hosted Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and other local officials, community partners, and employees at a ceremony to celebrate the topping out of construction at the $5 billion John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide. Located in Chatham County, North Carolina, the JP will produce 200mm si

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04/23/2024

ADLINK Technology and Rutronik Sign Cooperation Agreement

Xavier Serra, Director Distribution Network EMEA at ADLINK Technology (left), and Bernd Hantsche, Vice President Product Marketing Embedded & Wireless at Rutronik (right), announce the co-operation between their companies at this year's Embedded World in Nuremberg (Source: Rutronik)

ADLINK Technology and Rutronik Sign Cooperation Agreement

ADLINK Technology Inc., a global leader in edge computing, and Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH, a global broadline distributor, have entered into a new strategic partnership. This co-operation will enable ADLINK to broaden its offering in core areas such as Computer-on-Module (CoM), industrial di

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04/23/2024

Ceremonial Inauguration of Bavaria's First Grid-Closed 5-Megawatt Hydrogen Production Plant in Pfeffenhausen

In the presence of Bavarian Prime Minister Dr Markus Söder, State Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Stmwi), District President Rainer Haselbeck (Government of Lower Bavaria) and District Administrator Peter Dreier ...

Ceremonial Inauguration of Bavaria's First Grid-Closed 5-Megawatt Hydrogen Production Plant in Pfeffenhausen

Last Friday, in the presence of representatives from politics and the media, the shareholders of Hy2B Wasserstoff GmbH and the project partners, the go-ahead was given for the commissioning of the first grid-connected 5-megawatt hydrogen production plant in Bavaria at the site of the future hydrogen centre in

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04/23/2024

Defect Removal of 2D Semiconductor Crystals

Prof. Chang-Hee Cho of the DGIST team

Defect Removal of 2D Semiconductor Crystals

DGIST (DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

A study of oxygen molecules interacting with atomically thin layers of materials being developed as new generations of semiconductors could significantly improve control over the fabrication and applications of these ‘two-dimensional’ (2D) materials. The work, by researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of

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04/22/2024

Compact Quantum Light Processing

Resource-efficient multi-photon processor based on an optical fiber loop.

Compact Quantum Light Processing

UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons using a novel resource-efficient platform. The work published in

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04/22/2024

The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price

The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price

The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United States. Yet many potential buyers, particularly low-income drivers, are skeptical of EV’s conveniences and are put off by the price, according to a study conducted at

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04/22/2024

Surprising Reversal in Quantum Systems

The results of the ETH researchers as an homage to Andy Warhol. The image shows the experimental results of topological pumping.

Surprising Reversal in Quantum Systems

ETH ZURICH

In principle, one shouldn’t compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one has to do just that. Apples and oranges, it turns out, are said to be topologically the same since they both lack a hole – in contrast to doughnuts or coffee cups, for instance, which both ha

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04/22/2024

Navitas and Virtual Forest Join Hands to Advance Net-Zero in Agriculture

Navitas and Virtual Forest Join Hands to Advance Net-Zero in Agriculture

Navitas and Virtual Forest Join Hands to Advance Net-Zero in Agriculture

Navitas Semiconductor, the only pure-play, next-generation power semiconductor company and industry leader in GaN power ICs and SiC technology, announced that Virtual Forest one of India’s leading electronics design companies specializing in motor control and human interface technologies for consumer ap

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04/18/2024

LiquidPiston Achieves Key Milestone for U.S. Army Development Program's 25hp Rotary Engine

LiquidPiston Achieves Key Milestone for U.S. Army Development Program's 25hp Rotary Engine

LiquidPiston Achieves Key Milestone for U.S. Army Development Program's 25hp Rotary Engine

LiquidPiston, Inc., a leading innovator of efficient internal combustion engine technology and hybrid power systems, announced that a fully integrated version of its 25hp XTS-210 heavy-fuel rotary engine has begun testing. This milestone follows the successful completion of initial dynamometer testing of the en

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04/18/2024

Wärtsilä Engines Again the Choice for Major Texas Utility Power Plant Project

From left to right: Andreas Bucheler, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Wärtsilä; Risto Paldanius, Vice President, Americas, Wärtsilä; Randa Stephenson, LCRA Executive Vice President and Chief Op

Wärtsilä Engines Again the Choice for Major Texas Utility Power Plant Project

Technology group Wärtsilä has again been awarded a major contract by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), a river authority based in Austin, Texas, that provides wholesale power to the Texas power grid. Following an order by LCRA for ten Wärtsilä engines generating an output of approximately 190 MW

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04/17/2024

Infinigen Renewables Announces Strategic Solar+ Battery Storage Project in Puerto Rico

Leslie Hufstetler, CEO of Infinigen Renewables

Infinigen Renewables Announces Strategic Solar+ Battery Storage Project in Puerto Rico

Infinigen Renewables, a leading solar renewables company and ArcLight Capital Partners ("ArcLight") today announced a milestone power and battery infrastructure project – a ~15 MW storage project paired with a ~32 MW Solar Project in the Yabucoa Municipality of Puerto Rico. Infinigen, a wholly ow

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04/17/2024

Semiconductor Chips Drive Innovation in AI and Industries, Says GlobalData

Saurabh Daga, Associate Project Manager for Disruptive Tech at GlobalData

Semiconductor Chips Drive Innovation in AI and Industries, Says GlobalData

Semiconductor chips are driving a transformative wave across technology, healthcare, automotive, telecom, and power industries. These chips, particularly those fueling AI capabilities, are fundamentally reshaping industries, ushering in a new era of innovation and efficiency gains, according to GlobalData, a

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04/17/2024

Online 'Addiction' + Not Enough Sleep or Exercise Linked to Teen School Absence Risk

Online 'Addiction' + Not Enough Sleep or Exercise Linked to Teen School Absence Risk

Online 'Addiction' + Not Enough Sleep or Exercise Linked to Teen School Absence Risk

BMJ

Spending too much time online to the point of compulsion and the neglect of other necessary activities, plus not sleeping or exercising enough, are linked to a heightened risk of both truancy and school absence due to illness among teens, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Teenage girls see

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04/17/2024

Trash to Treasure – Researchers Turn Metal Waste into Catalyst for Hydrogen

Hydrogen production from water catalysed by platinum atoms on metal swarf

Trash to Treasure – Researchers Turn Metal Waste into Catalyst for Hydrogen

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

Scientists have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make hydrogen production more sustainable. A team of researchers from the University of Nottingham's School of Chemistry and Faculty of Engineering have found that the s

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04/17/2024

This schematic shows an engineered material with composite layers. Layers of carbon fibers (the long silver tubes) have microscopic forests of carbon nanotubes between them (the array of tiny brown objects). These tiny, densely packed fibers grip and hold the layers together....

"Nanostitches" Enable Lighter and Tougher Composite Materials

Jennifer Chu, MIT News

To save on fuel and reduce aircraft emissions, engineers are looking to build lighter, stronger airplanes out of advanced composites. These engineered materials are made from high-performance fibers that are embedded in polymer sheets. The sheets can be stacked and pressed into one multilayered material and ma

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04/17/2024

New A.I. Project Will Allow Industrial Robots to be More Freethinking

New A.I. Project Will Allow Industrial Robots to be More Freethinking

New A.I. Project Will Allow Industrial Robots to be More Freethinking

AARHUS UNIVERSITY

Robots are increasingly being used in industry, and in future they will need to adapt to unforeseen events and changes in their environment much more than today, including when they work with humans. A new international research project is addressing this issue using artificial intelligence. The project i

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04/17/2024

New Yorker and Geyer Electronic Sign New Distribution Agreement

New Yorker and Geyer Electronic Sign New Distribution Agreement

New Yorker and Geyer Electronic Sign New Distribution Agreement

New Yorker Electronics, global distributor of electronic components, recently announced a new franchised distribution agreement with Geyer Electronic. Geyer is an international manufacturer of Quart Crystals, Oscillators and Resonators. Founded in 1964 in Munich, Germany, as a retail store with a wide ra

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04/16/2024

Nova Clean Energy Closes Acquisition of 1 Gigawatt Wind and Solar Development Asset Portfolio from BNB Renewables

Ben Pratt, President of Nova Clean Energy

Nova Clean Energy Closes Acquisition of 1 Gigawatt Wind and Solar Development Asset Portfolio from BNB Renewables

Nova Clean Energy (‘Nova’) announced the acquisition of HyFuels, a more than 1 gigawatt portfolio of mid-to-late-stage wind and solar development projects as well as an earlier stage green ammonia project. Located on the Texas Gulf Coast, an area of rapidly increasing power demand and a leading center fo

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04/16/2024

KYOCERA AVX Breaks Ground on New Facility for High-Quality, Low-Noise Quartz Crystal Frequency Control Products

Keith Szewczyk, Vice President and Senior Director – KYOCERA AVX Crystals

KYOCERA AVX Breaks Ground on New Facility for High-Quality, Low-Noise Quartz Crystal Frequency Control Products

KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for KYOCERA AVX Components Corporation (Erie)’s new manufacturing and design center for high-quality, low-noise qu

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04/15/2024

Four Corners Clean Energy Alliance Announces Key Partnerships to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition in the Four Corners Region

4CCEA Chairman, Steve Grey

Four Corners Clean Energy Alliance Announces Key Partnerships to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition in the Four Corners Region

The Four Corners Clean Energy Alliance (4CCEA) is excited to announce the addition of a diverse array of stakeholders across the spectrum of the clean energy industry, amplifying its efforts to promote sustainable clean energy development in the Four Corners area, with a strong emphasis on supporting the Navajo Na

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04/15/2024

Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs

Yaron Raz, CEO of Neuronix AI Labs

Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs

Microchip Technology has acquired Neuronix AI Labs to expand its capabilities for power-efficient, AI-enabled edge solutions deployed on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Neuronix AI Labs provides neural network sparsity optimization technology that enables a reduction in power, size and calculations fo

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04/15/2024

Electrolyzer Market: Consistent Uptick in Number of Green H2 Players

Electrolyzer company expansion continues. Source: IDTechEx

Electrolyzer Market: Consistent Uptick in Number of Green H2 Players

IDTechEx Research

As green hydrogen increasingly garners recognition as a pivotal tool for decarbonizing various industries, the electrolyzer market is also observing a steady and consistent rise in the number of companies venturing into the development of electrolyzer stacks and production facilities. These companies have di

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04/12/2024

Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep

Laura Bloomfield, a research assistant professor of mathematics, University of Vermont

Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable devices? A new study by University of Vermont researchers published in PLOS Digital Health is the first to find changes in perceived stress levels reflected in sleep data—an important step to

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04/12/2024

New Quantum Material Promises Over 190% Quantum Efficiency in Solar Cells

Schematic of the thin-film solar cell with CuxGeSe/SnS as the active layer.

New Quantum Material Promises Over 190% Quantum Efficiency in Solar Cells

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels. A prototype using the material as the active layer in a solar cell exhibits an average photovoltaic absorption of 80%, a high generation rate of photoe

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04/12/2024

Engineers Making a Better, More Profitable Grid for Distributing Solar Power

Iowa State engineers are working to make the power grid better at integrating renewable power plants, such as the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University.

Engineers Making a Better, More Profitable Grid for Distributing Solar Power

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

If you’re the Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the organization that manages the flow of high-voltage electricity across a central stripe of the U.S. and Canada, from Manitoba, Michigan and Minnesota through Iowa and all the way to Louisiana – you want energy supplies to meet the energy demands of

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04/12/2024

University of Oklahoma Engineer Receives $3.1M Grant for Clean Hydrogen Technologies

Hanping Ding, of the University of Oklahoma, has received funding as part of the $750 million effort in President Biden’s Investing in American agenda.

University of Oklahoma Engineer Receives $3.1M Grant for Clean Hydrogen Technologies

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

Hanping Ding, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Department of Energy through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to further research in

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04/12/2024

Microchip Acquires ADAS and Digital Cockpit Connectivity Pioneer VSI Co. Ltd. to Extend Automotive Networking Market Leadership

Steve Kang, CEO of VSI Co. Ltd

Microchip Acquires ADAS and Digital Cockpit Connectivity Pioneer VSI Co. Ltd. to Extend Automotive Networking Market Leadership

Microchip Technology Inc. announces the completed acquisition of Seoul, Korea-based VSI Co. Ltd., an industry pioneer in providing high-speed, asymmetric, camera, sensor and display connectivity technologies and products based on the Automotive SerDes Alliance (ASA) open standard for in-vehicle networking (I

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04/11/2024

Ultrasonic Sensors Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 11.790 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 10.5%

Ultrasonic Sensors Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 11.790 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 10.5%

Ultrasonic Sensors Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 11.790 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 10.5%

Straits Research

Widespread usage of ultrasonic sensors for non-contact detection of solid and liquid substances. These sensors work at frequencies exceeding 20 kHz, which is outside the hearing range for humans. The operation of these sensors is based on echolocation, which involves the transmission of ultrasonic waves to th

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04/10/2024

Hofer Powertrain Significantly Expands its Development and Testing Capacities for EV Batteries

hofer powertrain's development center and the battery testing facility undergoing expansion

Hofer Powertrain Significantly Expands its Development and Testing Capacities for EV Batteries

hofer powertrain, a key development and technology partner for the automotive industry, announces a significant expansion of its battery testing capabilities in Nuertingen, Germany. Responding to the electric vehicle market's unprecedented growth and the rising demand for high-performance, cost-efficient, and

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04/04/2024

Commercial Lighting Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 64.67 billion by 2031

Commercial Lighting Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 64.67 billion by 2031

Commercial Lighting Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 64.67 billion by 2031

Commercial lighting can be tailored to meet every facility and its activities depending on its intended use. When buying business lighting, it's important to consider maintenance needs, brightness levels, and warranties. A commercial building can accommodate many people for various purposes, such as shopping, emp

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04/04/2024

STMicroelectronics Helps Panasonic Cycle Technology Bring AI to E-Assisted Bikes for Affordable Safety Boost

STMicroelectronics Helps Panasonic Cycle Technology Bring AI to E-Assisted Bikes for Affordable Safety Boost

STMicroelectronics Helps Panasonic Cycle Technology Bring AI to E-Assisted Bikes for Affordable Safety Boost

STMicroelectronics has announced that Panasonic Cycle Technology, Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) has adopted the STM32F3 microcontroller (MCU) and edge AI development tool, STM32Cube.AI, for their TiMO A e-assisted bike. ST’s edge AI solutions provide a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) that leverages an ad

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04/03/2024

Splitwaters Selected by Akna Energy for 20 MW Green Hydrogen Plant

Splitwaters Selected by Akna Energy for 20 MW Green Hydrogen Plant

Splitwaters Selected by Akna Energy for 20 MW Green Hydrogen Plant

Paving the path for a Sustainable Green Economy...Splitwaters, a Houston‐based electrolyzer manufacturer and EPC firm has signed an agreement with Akna Energy, LLC for a 20 MW Green Hydrogen Plant to be built & in operation in late 2025. This plant will be the first of many Green Hydrogen plants that Ak

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Date:

04/03/2024

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