Author: Cliff Withers

The UK government’s decision to invest £246m in the development of battery technology puts energy storage at the heart of its industrial strategy. The so-called Faraday Challenge – unveiled this week (Monday 24th July) by business secretary Greg Clark – will consist of three phases: an initial EPSRC led competition aimed at identifying key technologies, a second phase…

Power Electronics in the UK is driving significant change across a range of industry sectors including the renewable energy generation, energy networks, transportation and industrial processes arenas. The inaugural Power Electronics Expo UK runs Thursday, 15th March and brings together senior industry professionals with a commercial interest in the latest technological developments from within the…

This application note presents the new ISOPLUS247 power package featuring 2500 V internal isolation, which gives a revolutionary approach that improves thermal conductance and reliability. The document also describes the advantages of the isolated and hole-less packaging concept and a brief table and graphical comparisons of some characteristics of the IXFR55N50 to IXFX55N50. The new…

The IX4340 IC is a 5A dual low-side MOSFET driver. It features CMOS and TTL compatible inputs, and also two independent drivers that  each is capable of sourcing and sinking 5A. The IX4340 IC is a dual, high current, low-side gate driver having a 5V to 20V supply voltage range. The two outputs can be …

Here is a look back of the LC5500 series, a Sanken product, that acts as a switching power supply IC using quasi-resonant topology.   This device is intended to be employed for input capacitorless applications, and making it possible for systems to comply with the harmonics standard (IEC61000-3-2 class C). It incorporates separate controller and…

Our latest issue data sheets are now available via our website – click here. Military & Aerospace Cable Assemblies Using ruggedised connector technology, from mil-circular connectors to the latest blind mate interconnections, we manufacture high quality custom military and aerospace cable assemblies. For in-the-box requirements we offer laced and loomed assemblies, and for external cables we…

Thousands of jobs have been secured for two decades following the award of a £3.7bn contract to BAE Systems for three Type 26 Global Combat Ships. The new warships will be the first of eight vessels to replace specialist submarine-hunting Type 23 frigates that are currently in service. Shipbuilding yards on the Clyde will be…

Smart windows can save up to 40 per cent in an average building’s energy costs but their power requirements make them relatively complicated to install in existing buildings. Now, researchers at Princeton University have developed a self-powered smart window that features solar cells that selectively absorb near-ultraviolet (near-UV) light, so the new windows are completely…

Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that could rival the effectiveness of existing wearable electronic devices that use body heat as an energy source.   In the proof-of-concept study from North Carolina State University (NC State), researchers acknowledge that the performance and efficiency of flexible devices is inferior to rigid devices, which are…

  A method for identifying molecules that are markers for diseases could lead to miniaturised wearable health monitoring devices   A novel approach to lab-on-a-chip diagnostics could lead to health monitoring devices small enough to be worn like a smartwatch, according to researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The technique, a form of bioassay…