Lighting & Illumination

    May 2021
    Amerlux's UV-Free, White Antimicrobial Lighting Solutions
    Amerlux launched an innovative, UV-free lighting solution that kills viruses, bacteria and other microbes on surfaces while providing crisp, white, comfortable illumination and meeting international standards for continual and unrestricted use around people. ActiveClean combines Amerlux’s commercial-grade LED lighting&n
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    Date:
    05/27/2021
    Ultra-Broadband Capacitors Perform from 16KHz to 70+GHz
    AVX Corporation has released new UBC 550 Series ultra-broadband capacitors designed to deliver reliable, repeatable performance from 16KHz to 70+GHz in ultra-broadband microwave and millimeter-wave RF applications with stringent operating requirements. The new UBC 550Z, 550U, and 550L Series ultra-broadband ca
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    Date:
    05/20/2021
    Light Meets Superconducting Circuits

    A cryogenic dilution refrigerator. The base temperature is 10 milli Kelvin.

    In the last few years, several technology companies including Google, Microsoft, and IBM, have massively invested in quantum computing systems based on microwave superconducting circuit platforms in an effort to scale them up from small research-oriented systems to commercialized computing platforms. But fulfilling th
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    Date:
    05/10/2021
    TTI Offering Backlighting Chip LEDs from ROHM
    TTI, Inc., is now offering the ROHM CSL0901/CSL0902 LED series. These compact, high-output, surface-mount LEDs are designed with molded lenses to optimize intensity. This new lineup includes 18 devices, comprised of the CSL0901 series and featuring standard brightness and the high brightness CSL0902 series. LED
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    Date:
    05/07/2021
    Server / Telecom - Si and WBG solutions: Part 1 of 4 Editorial Series Sponsored by Infineon; Innovative Silicon Solution for Highest PFC Efficiency

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    Figure 1: Circuit diagram of the proposed solution using CoolMOS™ in a half-bridge configuration

    Introduction As a result of the pandemic that lately has had a significant impact on our lives, communication networks became a crucial part of critical social infrastructure. To achieve the required server capacities and fast connectivity and address the challenges of this unprecedented situation and, highly
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    Date:
    05/03/2021
    The Next Revolutionary Step for Low Power

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    Figure 1. Simplified circuit of the active clamp flyback (ACF) topology

    Introduction It is estimated that 4 billion chargers and adapters are produced globally every year. They charge our mobile phones, tablets, wearables, and the myriad of other consumer electronic goods we consume continuously. The cost of the adapter is undoubtedly a significant consideration for original equipme
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    Date:
    05/01/2021
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