Military, Aerospace & Hi-Rel

May 2016

Solar-powered stratospheric snooper enters development stage

Stratobus concept image

Solar-powered stratospheric snooper enters development stage

A French weapons manufacturer is developing a stratospheric airship, dubbed the Stratobus, that could act as a high-altitude eye in the sky for government agencies around the world. The €17 million grant from a French government investment program will go towards what Thales Alenia Space described as a

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05/18/2016

PSDcast - Lou Garofalo of NAI on military power supplies

Lou Garofalo of NAI

PSDcast - Lou Garofalo of NAI on military power supplies

In this PSDcast Lou Garofalo, Product Manager of Power and Instrumentation for North Atlantic Industries (NAI), talks to Alix Paultre of Power Systems Design about the demands involved in developing military power supplies. He discusses the need for more processing power and monitoring capabilities in power su

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05/17/2016

Exagan and TÜV NORD to establish GaN’s reliability in power apps

Exagan, a leading innovator of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology, has begun a strategic partnership to develop and commercialize GaN-on-silicon products with HIREX Engineering, a company of Alter Technology Group (TÜV NORD GROUP’s Aerospace and Electronics Business Unit). TÜV NORD is a multi-national te

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05/16/2016

First rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide battery created

The sodium–carbon dioxide battery could power vehicles in Mars' CO2-rich atmosphere or recycle exhaust CO2 in a hybrid car

First rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide battery created

The first rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide battery has been created with the help of a nanostructured cathode. The cheap and potentially powerful battery could fuel Mars vehicles as the red planet’s atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide or recycle carbon dioxide emissions on Earth. Sodium–carbon dioxide b

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05/14/2016

Stockwell Elastomerics' reinforced conductive silicone rubber gaskets now have new materials

Stockwell Elastomerics announced the availability of new materials SNE-556-R and SNE-540-R, nickel-graphite filled silicone rubber with fabric reinforcement

Stockwell Elastomerics' reinforced conductive silicone rubber gaskets now have new materials

Stockwell Elastomerics announced the availability of new materials SNE-556-R and SNE-540-R, nickel-graphite filled silicone rubber with fabric reinforcement that can be die cut or water jet cut into EMI shielding gaskets with narrow cross sections. SNE-556-R is a 65 durometer conductive silicone used for EMI a

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05/09/2016

Quiescent current in power supply designs

Meng He, Maxim Integrated

Now more than ever, the blooming of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been putting emphasis on the longevity of battery life. Every IoT node demands a battery to operate. A household of two people can have anywhere from 20 to 60 batteries in use at any time, and consumers can’t be burdened with the need to ch

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05/07/2016

Fast switching just got safer

Ashish Gokhale, Isolation Products Manager, Silicon Labs

Isolated power supply systems are prevalent in server systems, industrial applications, and telecommunication and networking equipment. In this bandwidth-hungry age of the Internet of Things (IoT), a growing number of these systems need to be efficiently powered, driving up the need for power-efficient, cost-effective so

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05/07/2016

High isolation voltage flyback transformer - Part 2

Edgar C. Taculog, TT Electronics

Part 1 of this article provided an overview of TT Electronics’ AEC Q200 qualified and certified transformers, which are optimized for use with a gate drive optocoupler to improve and simplify the design of isolated power supplies. This introduction looked at the theory of operation and how this impacts on ke

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05/07/2016

Advanced overvoltage protection

Carlos Augusto Schlabitz Filho, EPCOS

Overvoltages and the associated high surge currents can damage, or even destroy electrical and electronic devices. Reliable overvoltage protection is therefore essential. On the basis of a new ceramic material, TDK has now developed a high-surge series of multilayer varistors that combine compact dimensions wi

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05/07/2016

Exagan to showcase its energy-efficient GaN-on-Silicon tech at PCIM Europe

At the PCIM Europe trade show from May 10-12 in Nuremberg, Germany, Exagan, a leading innovator of gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology enabling smaller and more efficient electrical converters, will announce its latest strategic partnership to develop and commercialize GaN-on-silicon products.

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05/04/2016

Wuerth's REDline Power Boxes offer custom configuration in a standard housing

Wuerth's REDline Power Boxes offer custom configuration in a standard housing

Wuerth's REDline Power Boxes offer custom configuration in a standard housing

A novel approach to enabling power distribution, signal transmission, and function management in commercial vehicles, the REDline Power Box family is the name of the new system solution from Wuerth Elektronik ICS. With this series, the leading development partner and supplier of circuit-board-based central electrical sy

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05/04/2016

Conductive adhesives to enable low-temperature electronics

Rachel Gordon, IDTechEx

Conductive adhesives to enable low-temperature electronics

Rachel Gordon, IDTechEx

Materials are needed to replace the estimated 50,000 metric tons of tin-lead solder currently used each year, but there are no "drop-in" replacements for eutectic tin-lead solder. $1.2 billion of electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) are already selling each year, and they are becoming increasingly co

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05/04/2016

From toys to tools

By Siegfried Krainer and Michael Thomas, Infineon Technologies and Ronald Staerz, MCI Innsbruck

Initially regarded as toys, multicopters are now serious business. From simple surveying to future delivery solutions, entire businesses are emerging around the design, supply and use of multicopters. With increased adoption comes increased regulation and the multicopter itself needs to be capable of being piloted in

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05/04/2016

Do You Have a Plan B?

Tony Armstrong, Linear Technology

Being a Sci-Fi geek, I am a fan of the late 1950’s Hollywood “cheesy” low budget Ed Wood movies typical of this genre. One of my favorite films is “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” in which aliens come to Earth to stop humanity from building a doomsday weapon that could destroy the entire universe. However, th

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05/04/2016

Rogers to exhibit high-performance circuit materials at Del Mar Electronics Show

Rogers will be exhibiting at the upcoming Del Mar show May 4th and 5th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego, CA. Representatives from Rogers will be exhibiting at Booth #622, with information and insight on the use of their circuit materials, including 92ML laminates & prepregs, ULTRALAM 3850HT, CLTE-XT, an

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05/03/2016

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