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UK's Bristol Airport Powered by 100% Renewable Electricity

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

With nearly 9 million annual passengers, Bristol Airport is the ninth-busiest airport in the UK and a prime candidate for a green overhaul. They’ll get that courtesy of the Danish energy provider, Ørsted, and 100%

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09/16/2019

Anup Bhalla, Vice President Engineering, UnitedSiC

Are you SiC of Silicon? – Part 6

By: Anup Bhalla, Vice President Engineering, UnitedSiC

Using Silicon Carbide (SiC) FETs in Data Center power supplies and telecom rectifiers With the deployment of 5G Networks, we can expect a massive build out worldwide, requiring many high-quality telecom rectifiers to provide the needed power. To meet the need for improved efficiency,

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09/16/2019

Riedon Reveals new Temperature Sensing and Control Solutions

Alhambra, California – Riedon has introduced three new product lines leveraging its precision-resistor knowhow to simplify thermal sensing and monitoring, including miniature self-controlled heaters and resistance temperature detectors (RTDs). The PTC series of miniature heaters are positive-temperature-coefficient

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09/11/2019

Rugged Computing Platform with Accelerated Processing

SAN JOSE, Calif. — ADLINK Technology, Inc., released its latest Extreme Rugged, SWaP-optimized VITA 75 COTS computing platform, the HPERC-KBL, designed for mission-critical applications such as C4ISR and use in the world’s most demanding military and aerospace environments. ADLINK

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09/11/2019

ATS Services Provide Cooling Answers for Digi-Key Customers

NORWOOD, MA – Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) is now providing design engineering services for companies doing business with leading electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics, through their Design Services Provider network. ATS offers comprehensive thermal analysis and design

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09/11/2019

The image depicts a schematic of terahertz (THz) heterodyne detection with graphene. In this, two THz waves (red) are coupled into graphene, where they are combined or mixed. One of the waves is a high intensity signal generated by a local THz light source (i.e. a local oscillator), at a known THz frequency. The other signal is a faint THz wave that mimics the waves coming from space.

Graphene sets Stage for Next-Gen THz Astronomy Detectors

Chalmers University of Technology

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated a detector made from graphene that could revolutionize the sensors used in next-generation space telescopes. The findings were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy. Beyond superconductors,

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09/11/2019

Objects like Powehi, the recently imaged supermassive compact object at the center of galaxy M87, might actually be GEODEs. The Powehi GEODE, shown to scale, would be approximately 2/3 the radius of the dark region imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Are Black Holes Made of Dark Energy?

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe. Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe, is insensitive to details of the small

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09/10/2019

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Figure 1: Event-based power analysis on Keysight X8712A IoT device battery life optimization solution

Solving the Critical End of (Battery) Life for IoT Devices

Brad Jolly, Senior Applications Engineer, Keysight Technologies, Inc.

"My battery is low and it's getting dark” was the slightly-massaged final message sent from Oppy, NASA’s Mars rover to mission control in February of this year, causing a worldwide social media sensation. It’s an issue that will be increasingly common over the next decade, as billions of

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09/03/2019

Electronics Test and Measurement Market

Kevin Parmenter, Field Applications Manager, Taiwan Semiconductor

The general-purpose electronics test equipment segment includes oscilloscopes, signal generators, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, Bit Error Rate Testers (BERT), Vector Network analyzers, power meters, electronic counters, modular instrumentation, Automated Test Equipment (ATE), and

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09/03/2019

A Solar-Powered Spacecraft Inspired by Golden Age of Sail

In space, power is everything – supplies are limited and a recharge is difficult or impossible, so renewable energy is critical. And what’s the most abundant source of energy in the galaxy? The sun. This is hardly a revelation – we’ve tinkered with solar power since the earliest days of the

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09/03/2019