Passive radiative cooling improves high-end solar cells

Pusan National University in Korea is increasing the efficiency of solar cells by bouncing heat back into the sky. “Standing in the sun all day, solar cells often become very heated,” according to the university. “Over time, this degrades them and lowers their power-conversion efficiency. Integrating radiative coolers can solve this problem without energy consumption.” ...

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7x7mm chip delivers 2x100W stereo

Infineon has created a 7 x 7mm multi-chip module that can deliver two audio channels of up to 100W each. Called MA5332MS, the company claims 95% for the Class-D amplifier when driving that power into 4Ω loads (10% THD+N, ±36.5V supply). Looking at the data sheet, up to 90W is available with <0.1% THD+N. Providing the load ...

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Government accelerates renewable energy supplies

Deployment of low-cost renewable electricity is  to be accelerated through the government’s auction scheme The next Contracts for Difference (CfD) round will open in March 2023 and be the first in a series of annual auctions. CfD supports new low carbon electricity projects by awarding contracts through a competitive auction process, backing domestic energy production. ...

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Tiny antenna gets THz tech into the home

A Skoltech professor and his colleagues from Germany have designed a very small and flat antenna for receiving and transmitting terahertz signals. The problem with THz technology is that THz devices will require miniaturization before they can be more widely adopted. “Today, you will find bulky THz devices in laboratory or industrial settings, in some airports, hospitals, ...

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SL Power extends portfolio

 SL Power Electronics,  the AC/DC power conversion specialist, has announced of the TE and ME family of external power supplies. The TE series is approved to Industrial/ITE standards and the ME meets medical requirements, and between them they meet the needs of a very wide range of applications. 9 model ranges are available with standard ...

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Jodrell Bank to coordinate mitigation of satellite constellations on astronomy

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced details of its new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. As the name suggests, it will be concerned with coordinating action to help mitigate the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based optical and radio astronomy observations. Specifically, it will ...

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Flutter embedded UI toolkit supports Windows Apps

Google’s release of Flutter 2.10 – the mobile user interface toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – sees added support for Windows Apps. The embedded UI toolkit embraced Windows, macOS and Linux back in March 2021, but now there is support for Windows as an app target, ...

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Two-wire Hall switches have diagnostics ready for ISO 26262

Diodes has added diagnostics to two-wire Hall-effect switches to ready them for ISO 26262 automotive functional safety. “They monitor main device blocks, supply voltage and temperature, with a third lower current output state,” according to the company. “This enables them, as a ‘safety element out of context’ [SEooC] to support ISO 26262 functional safety system integrations.” ...

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Flexible stretchy supercapacitors

The University of Surrey has created a flexible and stretchy supercapacitor “that can be easily integrated into footwear, clothing, and accessories”, it said. Building one involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube arrays from a silicon wafer to a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) matrix in which they are partly embedded for robustness. This is then electro-coated with polyaniline to improve ...

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Percepio supports Zephyr and Microsoft Azure ThreadX

Percepio is supporting Zephyr and Microsoft Azure ThreadX RTOSs with version 4.6 of Tracealyzer. The release includes the company’s next-generation trace recorder library with improved support for snapshot trace – snapshot recording opens the door to using its cloud service (DevAlert) for monitoring application code executing in deployed IoT devices. Trace data can now be saved ...

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