Tech Talk

May 2024

Lane Martin is Rice University’s Robert A. Welch Professor, professor of materials science and nanoengineering and director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute.

New Piezoelectric Material Doesn’t Suffer Clamping

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Piezoelectric materials are widely used in technological products. These materials can transmit electrical energy to mechanical stress and vice versa. The phenomenon is used in everyday devices, such as lighters and ultrasound machines and in components such as actuators, transducers and sensors. Howe

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Date:

05/29/2024

Thorsten Schmidt, product marketing manager, Power Integrations

IGBT Gate Driver Board Offers 2,300V Isolation for Renewable Generation

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Energy generation from renewable energy sources usually provide a DC signal, which then has to be manipulated into a form that we can easily use. This conversion could be performed by an inverter to change it into an AC signal to be fed into the grid, or it could be a DC-DC conversion for battery storage

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Date:

05/21/2024

The new zinc-lignin battery is stable, as it can be used over 8000 cycles while maintaining about 80% of its performance.

New Battery Design Helps Developing Countries Go Green

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Stopping the rise of global temperatures is a problem for the whole world. Often times it is developing countries that need that help the most because of a lack of funding, while developed countries can afford the changeover to more sustainable green energy. It should be easier for developing countrie

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Date:

05/16/2024

Concept illustration of chemically converting CO2 into fuels like methanol.

Transforming C02 to Methane Fuel

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

A huge part of our fight against climate change is trying to drastically reduce the greenhouse gases that we emit. There are seven types of greenhouse gases, but the one that is most important is carbon dioxide, purely because of the amount of it that is found in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) t

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Date:

05/07/2024

Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert, Power Management at Analog Devices

Solutions for Data-Centres and Other High-Power Applications

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Data centres are major consumers of the power that we generate. According to Cirkla, in 2022 there were over 8,000 data-centres around the world. On average, each data-centre consumes as much energy as 25,000 homes, and combined, their usage is around 1% of global energy consumption. As the IoT and A

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Date:

05/02/2024