Lighting & Illumination

    May 2018
    DC Product Offering Supports a Wide Range of Automotive Applications
    DALLAS, TX -- Orion Fans has expanded its DC product offering to provide enhanced cooling solutions for automotive applications. Orion Fans' extensive DC fan and blower product line delivers efficient cooling solutions for automotive applications including air conditioning, air filtering, diagnostic equipment,
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    05/30/2018
    Rogers Corporation's Power Electronics Solutions Group to Introduce ROLINX CapLink Solutions at PCIM 2018
    Eschenbach, Germany – Rogers Corporation’s Power Electronics Solutions (PES) group will be exhibiting at PCIM Europe and introducing ROLINX CapLink Solutions.   PCIM Europe (Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion) is the international leading exhibition for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion,
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    05/29/2018
    Energy-efficient devices are important components for saving resources and protecting the environment. The more efficient the electronics, the longer the battery service life for mobile devices - and in large-scale industrial and server installations with thousands of loads, the energy requirement is markedly re
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    05/28/2018
    Columbia Researchers Squeeze Light Into Nanoscale Devices and Circuits

    The best pictorial representation of a surface plasmon polariton is in terms of a 'ripple' of electron density on the surface of graphene sample.

    New York, NY--As electronic devices and circuits shrink into the nanoscale, the ability to transfer data on a chip, at low power with little energy loss, is becoming a critical challenge. Over the past decade, squeezing light into tiny devices and circuits has been a major goal of nanophotonics researchers. El
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    05/23/2018
    Appending Triphenyltriazine to 1,10-Phenanthroline

    The green phosphorescent OLED that contained the doped electron-transport layer TRZ-m-Phen:Liq showed high efficiency and operational stability.

    There has been an increasing demand for high-performant and cost-effective organic electron-transport materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The design of a desirable electron-transport material may present a demanding challenge since many factors and the complex trade-offs therein have to be taken in
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    05/23/2018
    TI’s LMZM3360x Power Modules, Now at Mouser, Integrate 36V Buck Converter and Power Circuitry in a Compact Package
    Mouser Electronics is now stocking the LMZM33602 and LMZM33603 power modules from Texas Instruments (TI). These completely integrated 4 V–36 V power module solutions combine a step-down DC-to-DC converter with power MOSFETs, a shielded inductor, and passive components in a compact, low-profile package. To simplify d
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    05/23/2018
    RS Components (RS) is stocking the newly launched Lumileds Gen-4 Luxeon COB LEDs, enabling smaller, simpler luminaires to deliver bright and vibrant lighting. With pace-setting efficacy of up to 170lm/W, the industry’s smallest LES, and package thermal resistance up to four times lower than other COB LE
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    05/23/2018
     Flex Power Modules announces new BGA packaging option for digital point-of-load DC/DC converters
    Flex Power Modules today announced that its BMR466 and BMR461 digital point-of-load (POL) DC/DC power modules are now available to customers with BGA (Ball Grid Array) packaging, as well as in their original compact LGA (Land Grid Array) package. Both modules target deployment in distributed power and intermediate
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    05/23/2018
    Infineon prepares for long-term growth and invests €1.6 billion in new 300-millimeter chip factory in Austria
    Infineon Technologies is to build a new factory for power semiconductors. The market and technology leader in this segment will thereby create the foundation for long-term, profitable growth. A fully automated chip factory for manufacturing 300-millimeter thin wafers will be constructed at the Villach location in A
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    05/23/2018
    RS Components now stocking new series of high-efficiency fans and controllers from ebm-papst
    RS Components (RS) has announced the availability of new energy-efficient fan controllers together with the 4300N series of fans from ebm-papst, one of the world’s leading makers of high-efficiency fans and motor products. The latest fan controller solutions are low-cost, credit-card-sized devices. Th
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    05/23/2018
    Würth Elektronik successfully completing research project of assistance system with adaptive human-machine interaction  .
    To make physically strenuous works easier was one of the aims. To give to the craftspeople additional information about the upcoming works, was another aim. The „third arm“ for craftsmen makes both possible: Effective support of the craftsman on the one hand and computer-generated additional information di
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    05/23/2018
    Powerbox announces four new series of extra-wide input DC/DC converters for railway and transportation industry
    Powerbox announces the launch of four new series of extra-wide input voltage range, 8W to 20W board-mounted DC/DC converters for railway and transportation industry. With a 13:1 input voltage range of 12V to 160V, the MAD33 (8W), MAD32 (10W), MAE35 (15W) and MAF35 (20W) have been developed to provide systems des
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    05/23/2018
    Gresham Power Electronics introduces a low profile 225 Watt Ultra High Density AC/DC ITE and Medical Power Supply
    Gresham Power Electronics announces the introduction of its latest micro-footprint, Ultra High Density (UHD) 225W output power supply the OF(M)225. The OF(M)225 Series of open frame switching power supplies utilises a highly advanced circuit topology to deliver 225 Watts with fan cooling and 120 Watts convectio
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    Date:
    05/23/2018
    Maxim's Digital Class D Speaker Amplifiers Deliver the Highest Efficiency in a Compact, Cost-Effective Plug-and-Play Solution
    With the MAX98357 and MAX98358 digital-input Class D audio power amplifiers by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM), designers can achieve highest efficiency in a compact, cost-efficient plug-and-play solution. Despite their ultra-small form factors, these Class D efficient amplifiers deliver 3.2W of Cla
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    05/23/2018
    AC LED Modules Pass 4kV Surge Testing
    Ansan, South Korea – Seoul Semiconductor has demonstrated a 277V AC lighting module using its NanoDriver Series LED driver that complies with the industry standard 4kV surge testing. Prior to this, AC LED modules have been mainly used only in residential lighting applications due to the technology’s limited ca
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    Date:
    05/15/2018
    No matter the technical innovation or application, all modern technologies have one thing in common; they rely on a reliable, small and high performance power supply to be able to function and meet their specification. As end products become more complex, the design parameters for the power supply become more ch
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    05/11/2018
    Waterloo Chemists Create Faster and More Efficient Way to Process Information

    This is professor Pavle Radovanovic in front of the magnetic circular dichroism system used in this study.

    University of Waterloo chemists have found a much faster and more efficient way to store and process information by expanding the limitations of how the flow of electricity can be used and managed. In a recently released study, the chemists discovered that light can induce magnetization in certain semicondu
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    05/11/2018
    AC LED Modules Offered in Designs From 200 to 10,000 Lumens
    ANSAN, KOREA - Seoul Semiconductor announces a comprehensive series of AC LED modules that use the company’s patented Acrich AC LED technology. The modules are offered in designs from 200 to 10,000 lumens in round, rectangular and linear formats. These AC modules integrate Seoul Semiconductor’s patented
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    Date:
    05/10/2018
    TRACO POWER’s smallest 2 Watt SMD DC/DC converter
    TRS 2 Series is a new series with the design purpose to improve the prevalent 2 Watt SMD DC/DC converters in terms of size, cost, efficiency and performance. The main intended uses for the TRS 2 Series are IT applications, industrial control systems and also measurement equipment. With the reduction of thermal loss
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    05/03/2018
    Power Management Platform Addresses the Massive Power Products Market Operating up to 16V
    MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel – TowerJazz announced the release of its 300mm 65nm BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process, the most advanced power management platform for up to 16V operation and 24V maximum voltage.  This technology is manufactured in TowerJazz’s Uozu, Japan facility, with best-in-class quality andcycle ti
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    Date:
    05/02/2018
    Nanodiamond Turns Into Controllable Light Source

    The scheme of obtained active nanodiamond antenna.

    A research group from ITMO University developed a controlled light source based on nanodiamond for the first time in the world. Experiments have shown that diamond shell doubles the emission speed light sources and helps to control them without any additional nano- and microstructures. This was achieved due to
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    Date:
    05/02/2018
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