Automotive & Transportation

August 2015

CWIEME Chicago

CWIEME Chicago 2015 returns with more exhibitors

On October 6 and 7, CWIEME Chicago’s largest gathering of exhibitors from across the international coil winding, insulation and electrical manufacturing industries will meet at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. near O’Hare International Airport. Among the exhibitors, 57% will be No

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08/31/2015

The LTC3265 high-voltage, low-noise dual-output power supply

Linear's high-voltage boost & inverting charge pumps deliver low-noise dual outputs with post-regulating ±50mA LDOs

Linear Technology announced the LTC3265, a high voltage, highly integrated, low noise dual output power supply which takes a single positive input supply (VIN_P) and generates low noise bipolar rails up to ±2•VIN_P without any inductors. The device includes a boost doubling charge pump, an inverting charge pu

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08/31/2015

Mouser Electronics is proud to sponsor Rebellion Racing

Mouser-sponsored Rebellion Racing Team to race famed Nürburgring

Mouser Electronics is proud to sponsor Rebellion Racing as the team gears up for the 6 Hours of Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany on August 30. Rebellion, a highly successful independent team from Switzerland, took a stunning 1–2 finish in the prestigious Privateer Class at the legendary 24 Hours Le Mans, an

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08/27/2015

A5929 full-bridge gate driver IC

Allegro’s A5929 targets integrated starter generator applications

The A5929 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a full-bridge gate driver IC designed to drive N-channel external power MOSFETs in automotive applications including integrated starter generator (ISG) systems. The device incorporates a specially designed charge pump regulator that provides a full gate drive vol

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08/25/2015

(a) Schematic cross section and (b) micrograph of the fabricated vertically oriented trench MOSFET

Novel GaN nanoelectronics-transistor has a blocking voltage exceeding 1kV

Research reported in Applied Physics Express (APEX) by Tohru Oka and colleagues at the Research and Development Headquarters for TOYODA GOSEI in Japan describe the development of ‘vertically orientated’ GaN-based transistors with blocking voltages exceeding 1kV. These findings are important for the application of

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08/24/2015

autoXLR8R road show kicks off August 26

autoXLR8R, a mentor-driven accelerator program focused on bringing new automotive technologies to market, will host its second Road Show later this month with a series of three stops planned for Birmingham, Ala. (Aug. 26), Greenville, S.C. (Aug. 27) and Oak Ridge (Aug. 28). The Road Show will provid

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08/12/2015

coolingZONE thermal management eConference to feature IoT

The 15th annual coolingZONE Thermal Management Summit for electronics thermal engineers take place October 20-22, 2015 in a globally-accessible, online summit covering thermal management, heat transfer and energy transport at all hardware levels from individual components to the Internet of Things. The coolingZONE-15 S

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08/12/2015

Market for conductive inks and pastes between 2014 and 2025. The data is from the IDTechEx Research report on Conductive Ink Markets 2015-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players

Battlegrounds emerge for conductive inks and pastes

Core applications of PV and touch panels continue to grow demand, but new opportunities emerge in the form of wearable technology, circuit boards and structural electronics. The new IDTechEx Research report Conductive Ink Markets 2015-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players finds that the market for conductiv

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08/12/2015

Integral Technologies to exhibit at The Battery Show 2015

Integral Technologies, an emerging light-weighting leader and its wholly owned subsidiary ElectriPlast, will be exhibiting at Booth #1856 at The Battery Show 2015, and Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Conference and Expo from September 15-17th at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. The Battery Sh

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08/06/2015

Maxim joins R-Car Consortium

Maxim Integrated announced that it has joined the “R-Car Consortium,” a partner program advocated by Renesas Electronics. By participating in R-Car Consortium, Maxim further establishes its commitment to the automotive market. The automotive industry is evolving fast. In order to implement state-of-the-art au

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08/06/2015

NREL scientist Jianping Yu holds a petri dish of cyanobacteria culture being grown in his lab. He is working to cultivate various genetically engineered strains to promote ethylene production

Ethylene production via sunlight offers great promise

Wayne Hicks

Here's the future of ethylene production as Dr. Jianping Yu sees it. "We envision some farms in the field that cover many acres. We will have cyanobacteria harvesting sunlight and C02 and then produce ethylene or ethylene derivatives," said Yu, a research scientist in the Photobiology Group at the Ene

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08/03/2015