White-hot liquid silicon could be the key to storing the vast amounts of energy needed to run a renewables-based national power grid, according to MIT, which claims it “would be vastly more affordable than lithium-ion batteries” and “would cost about half as much as pumped hydroelectric storage, the cheapest form of grid-scale energy storage to ...
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Room-temperature fluorine-ion batteries are possible, according to computer simulations by a team of scientist in the US – potentially leading to an anion-based rechargeable battery to trump cation-based technology like Li-ion. “Fluoride-based battery electrodes can store more ions per site than typical lithium-ion electrodes, which means that this technology has the capability to be much more ...
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Room-temperature fluorine-ion batteries are possible, according to computer simulations by a team of scientist in the US – potentially leading to an anion-based rechargeable battery to trump cation-based technology like Li-ion. “Fluoride-based battery electrodes can store more ions per site than typical lithium-ion electrodes, which means that this technology has the capability to be much more ...
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Polydimethylglutarimide (PMGI) is the key to positioning sensors made from 2D materials permanently onto curved surfaces, according to Rice University in Texas. Its research team was seeking a sacrificial layer – one on which 2D materials could be made, then used as a carrier film for transport to the target surface, while disappearing once the ...
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Moortec is a Plymouth-based intellectual property company, concentrating since 2010 in the specialist world of on-die self-monitoring circuits for customer SoCs – blocks that allow chip manufacturers to keep an eye on process variation, as well as providing feedback for operational dynamic frequency scaling and dynamic voltage scaling, and assessing silicon die aging. Starting with ...
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Vishay has introduced a series of 1Mbaud (2MHz NRZ) optocouplers with built-in Schmitt trigger and open collector output. Called the VOH1016A series, the typical input current for output turn-on is 650μA (2mA max required) with guaranteed on-off threshold hysteresis – I(off)/I(on) is between 0.5 and 0.95, typically 0.9 (Vcc 5V, 280Ω load). Output stage supply voltage ...
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Schurter has released an evaluation board called DKIH-EVB, paired with an application note, which together allows EMC filters to be created and optimised. The user and their spectrum analyser are walked though a six step iterative process that should lead to a cost-effective filter that gets the job done. According to the firm, the universal design allows ...
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Panasonic has introduced tough narrow-pitch connectors for industrial and consumer use. 40 of them, available though RS, use Panasonic’s ‘tough-contact’ technology and include flat printed circuit (FPC) and flexible flat cable (FFC) connectors, as well as board-to-board and board-to-FPC types. “The ultra-slim-profile connectors are ideally suited to applications where space is at a premium, while also ...
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It wasn’t long ago when single-inductor multiple-output dc-dc converters were the stuff of international design conferences, and now they are being offered for use in consumer items. Now Maxim has introduced six of them, aimed at wearables, hearables, sensors, smart-home automation hubs and IoT devices, according to the firm. MAX17270 for wearables and hearables Quiescent ...
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Microchip has added multi-core coherent RISC-V processors to its PolarFire FPGA family, with the intention of brings real-time deterministic asymmetric multiprocessing to Linux platforms. The architecture, developed in collaboration with RISC-V champions SiFive, has a 2Mbyte L2 memory that can be configured as a cache, scratchpad or a direct access memory. “This allows designers to ...
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