Tech Talk

April 2023

Nick Dajda, Sales and Marketing Director, ipTEST

Power Testing Company Wins Prestigious King’s Award

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

The recent announcement of the winners of this year’s King’s Awards for Enterprise included one company that is very relevant to the power industry. Guilford-based ipTEST gained the award in recognition of its advancement of test capabilities for high power SiC and GaN semiconductors. The company has

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Date:

04/26/2023

Ultrafast ionic conduction in a carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cell created by Michigan Tech researchers.

Researchers Create New Type of Fuel Cell

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

The electrification of the automotive industry is continuing at pace as governments attempt to meet the commitments that they have made towards the environment. The majority of governments in the developed world see the move to EVs as an easy way to slash emissions, and as such, have set tough to meet sc

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Date:

04/19/2023

Chemical engineering professor Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus and chemistry assistant professor Dr. Daniel Tabor have discovered significant storage capacity in water-based batteries.

Water-based Batteries Offer Future Alternative to Lithium

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Batteries are becoming so important to the financial prosperity of many countries that they are looking at ways to keep the whole supply chain at home. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that the global supply chains that we have relied on for the last few decades were not as robust as we believed. Countries that co

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Date:

04/11/2023

The MAX38650 brings the voltage level down to closer to the LDO voltage output

Getting the most out of battery power

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Almost every device we rely on these days is powered by batteries. That dependence is not slowing down as battery-powered equipment is increasingly being adopted for healthcare, industrial and domestic applications, in addition to our existing consumer devices. These new applications will mainly be emplo

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Date:

04/04/2023