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    March 2022
    PSDcast – The Growth and Market for Silicon Carbide

    Infineon’s VP of Silicon Carbide, Peter Friedrichs

    We’re all familiar with GaN and SiC at this point, and they’ve begun to infiltrate nearly every corner of the market. But several questions remain, and here with us to talk about wide bandgap devices is Infineon’s VP of Silicon Carbide, Peter Friedrichs.
    Date:
    03/23/2022
    PSDcast – Virginia Tech's Self-Powered Autonomous Robot

    Andrew Choi, graduate research assistant and captain of the winning Virginia Tech student team.

    The Energy Tech University Prize is an ongoing student competition to identify an innovative energy technology, assess its market potential, and propose a strategy for commercialization. For the Carolinas regional portion of the contest, the overall winner was a team from Virginia Tech, with a self-powered autonomous ro
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    Date:
    03/22/2022
    PSDcast – Liability with Semi- and Fully-Autonomous Vehicles

    Kevin Vincent, the Director of Coventry University’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Automotive Research

    Autonomous vehicles are continuing to progress, and as they do, some thorny issues are beginning to crop up – like liability…who pays the piper when a self-driving car causes an accident? The occupants or the manufacturer? Here to discuss these issues and several related ones is Kevin Vincent, the Director of
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    Date:
    03/16/2022
    PSDcast – Do we Need Fossil Fuel Backup for Grid Stability?

    Eric Powell, the Director for North America at Partners in Performance

    In order to achieve the advanced smart grid we’re all pining for, we need stable, reliable sources of power. Renewable energy will certainly fill that role to some extent. But a strong possibility remains that we’ll still need fossil fuel backup in order to maintain grid stability for the foreseeable future. An
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    Date:
    03/15/2022
    PSDcast – Redefining how Electricity is Distributed

    Luke Getto, VoltServer’s director of product management

    It’s not often that we come across a technology…or a concept that could reinvent the very way electricity is distributed. But that’s exactly what the good folks at Voltserver are promising with their Digital Electricity method.
    Date:
    03/10/2022
    PSDcast -- System Solutions for Robots and Cordless Power Tool Applications

    Nenad Belancic – Global Application Manager Robots & Drones, Infineon Technologies

    We’ve been running an article series from Infineon on “System solutions for battery-powered applications,” and we thought it was worth delving a little deeper – specifically, part 1, or “System solutions for robots and cordless power tool applications: A move towards the future,” by Infineon’s Ne
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    Date:
    03/03/2022
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