Military, Aerospace & Hi-Rel

November 2015

NASA Stennis Space Center and Loyola University New Orleans announce partnership agreement

Loyola University New Orleans’ College of Business announced a Space Act Agreement with NASA that will partner Loyola MBA students with Stennis Space Center engineers to commercialize a new technology patent. The partnership is part of NASA’s Technology Transfer University (T2U) initiative, which seeks to en

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11/24/2015

Using point-of-load modules

Alan Elbanhawy, Exar

Despite the development of ultralow power integrated devices, the overall demand for power at a system level is only increasing. At the same time, OEMs remain under pressure to make their end-applications physically smaller, which continues to drive demand for smaller and more efficient power supplies. While improveme

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11/05/2015

Assessing next-generation discretes

Dr. Thomas Barbieri, Wolfspeed, A Cree Company

When the first generation of silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes was introduced more than 10 years ago, their widespread adoption was somewhat challenged by unforeseen dV/dt limitations within certain manufacturers’ devices. In particular, devices with lower dV/dt capability were susceptible to failure from larg

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11/05/2015

Astute Electronics first in Europe to be certified to Mil/Aero anti-counterfeit standard AS 6081

Astute Electronics, a leading supplier of electronic components and value added services, has announced that is has gained certification to AS 6081, the SAE Aerospace Standard that addresses counterfeit mitigation which is designed to provide a very high level of protection for companies in the aerospace and de

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11/03/2015

Guillaume Chansin, IDTechEx

Flexible sensors: an expanding market

Guillaume Chansin, IDTechEx

Large investments have been made to enable flexible, thin sensors rather than rigid sensors. $75 million was recently awarded by the US Department of Defense to establish a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for flexible hybrid electronics in San Jose, California. Under the acronym FHE MII, this new en

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11/01/2015

Core loss modeling part II

Dr. Ray Ridley, Ridley Engineering

As modern power converters move towards higher efficiency, it is essential to have better models for all of the loss mechanisms in your components. In the first part of this article, we talked about the need for a single continuous equation to match the empirically measured losses. In this second part, the effect of

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11/01/2015