Aluminium batteries take a step closer

Researchers at Cornell University have taken a step closer towards viable aluminium batteries – that might, for example, one day be used in grid-scale storage. Aluminium is more plentiful and cheaper that lithium, making it potentially attractive for large-scale energy storage even if the technology never became light enough for automotive or phone use. Aluminium ...

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75W ac-dc PSUs are baseplate cooled

XP Power has announced a range of low profile half-brick fan-less ac-dc power supplies which require no external circuitry for operation or EMC compliance. Cooling in the series, dubbed ASB75, can deliver up to 75W and are baseplate cooled – across a baseplate range of -40 to +85°C. Conversion to convection or forced-air cooling, with de-rating above ...

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GloFo to IPO at a $20bn valuation

Preparations are going ahead for a $20 billion IPO of Globalfoundries, reports Bloomberg. GloFo’s owner, the sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co of Abu Dhabi, is reported to be talking to potential advisers for the float. CEO Tom Caufield has indicated that the company would go public in 2022. The current chip shortage, a market ...

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Battery assembly line for Coventry

Comau UK of Rugby has been selected by the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) to develop and deploy a semi-automated battery module and battery pack assembly line for the publicly-funded ‘open access’ battery production development facility. The Module and Pack assembly line is the first of UKBIC’s innovative battery manufacturing equipment to have been installed, ...

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Sondrel aims ASIC reference design at FuSa applications

Sondrel has announced the second in its family of reference designs for ASICs that provide a framework to support a customer’s own IP, which results in a faster time to market and lower risk. The SFA250A is aimed at Functional Safety (FuSa) applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and contains an independent FuSa ...

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Lockheed Martin’s iSpace system selected by German Space Agency for situational awareness

The German Space Agency has selected Lockheed Martin’s iSpace control software for tracking thousands of objects orbiting the earth, supporting situational awareness and collision avoidance. The system, which catalogs 300,000 space objects, enables the management of assets in space – correlating data from a worldwide network of government, commercial and scientific space surveillance sensors (optical ...

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CoolMOS enhancements for static switching

In applications where MOSFETs are switched at low frequency, high-power product designs must meet several key characteristics: They have to minimize conduction losses, provide optimal thermal behavior, and enable more compact and lighter systems. To meet these requirements, Infineon is enhancing the 600 V CoolMOS™ S7 family with two new optimized devices for static switching ...

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