Notable & Newsworthy

March 2016

Tesla to discontinue its 10kW Powerwall

Julia Pyper

Tesla has quietly removed all references to its 10-kilowatt-hour residential battery from the Powerwall website, as well as the company’s press kit. The company's smaller battery designed for daily cycling is all that remains. The change was initially made without explanation, which prompted industry insiders t

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03/28/2016

Pictured from left to right are Tom Sleasman (TMS Representatives), Christopher Rocneanu (USCi) and Bob and Sydele Starr (Team PSD)

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Celebrating APEC Golf Tournament 2016

Players enjoyed perfect golf weather on a sunny Southern California afternoon participatig in the 7th annual APEC Golf tournament. As usual this event is sponsored by: Coilcraft, Mouser Electronics & PSD (Power Systems Design) This years winners (pictured from left to right) was a foursome made up of Tom Sle

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03/22/2016

Navitas launches industry's first GaN power ICs

Navitas Semiconductor announced the first Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs, using its proprietary AllGaN monolithically-integrated 650V platform. Combining GaN power FETs with GaN logic and drive circuits enables 10x-100x higher switching frequency than existing silicon circuits, making power electronics smaller, li

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03/21/2016

Panasonic photovoltaic module achieves highest conversion efficiency in the lab

Panasonic announced that it has achieved a photovoltaic module conversion efficiency of 23.8% (aperture area-3: 11,562 cm2) at the research level. This is a major increase over the previous world record for crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic modules. The previous record for the conversion efficiency of a crys

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03/02/2016

EPFL has developed a fully-flexible polymer that’s imbued with liquid metal

Engineers create stretchable liquid metal circuit

Chloe Olewitz, Digital Trends

With an eye on next-generation wearable technology and even artificial skin, researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a fully-flexible polymer that’s imbued with liquid metal — a groundbreaking new material that can be used to create stretchable electronic circuits. Th

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Date:

03/02/2016