Maxim MAX11068 battery-monitoring IC
16 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Power Technology & Element Energy
Maxim has introduced the MAX11068, a high-voltage, 12-cell, battery-monitoring IC for hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and any system that stacks long series strings of batteries. It employs a SMBus-laddered communication bus that allows multiple 11068s to be daisy chained together without isolators.
Working towards a power-grid battery
15 September, 2010
If battery-making is an art, then University at Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi is among its most prolific masters, with more than 140 US patents, all in energy storage.
Silicon carbide research may give better inverters
09 September, 2010
A new material is poised to make the frequency inverters used with large electric motors more efficient and powerful. Together with several partners, researchers from Siemens Corporate Technology and experts for large electrical drives at Siemens Industry Drive Technologies are studying how the semiconductor silicon carbide can be used as a diode material in place of pure silicon.
Mean Well TN/TS-3000 DC/AC true sine wave inverter series
07 September, 2010 | Supplied by: Soanar Limited
Mean Well has introduced the TN/TS-3000 series of DC/AC true sine wave inverters, that is lightweight and is claimed to have up to 92% efficiency.
Linear Technology LTC3589 power management IC
13 August, 2010 | Supplied by: element14
Linear Technology has announced the LTC3589, a power management solution for portable processors such as i.MX, PXA, ARM, OMAP and other portable microprocessor systems.
Semikron SKAI 2 compact power electronic systems
02 July, 2010 | Supplied by: Semikron Danfoss
Semikron has released the SKAI 2 platforms, claimed to be the most compact power electronic systems for hybrid and electric vehicles for use in agriculture, construction, materials handling and in battery-powered vehicles of any kind.
Diodes API9221 lithium-ion/polymer battery charger IC
16 June, 2010 | Supplied by: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
For a variety of handheld equipment requiring both USB and AC/DC power adapter charging inputs, Diodes has introduced the API9221 lithium-ion/polymer battery charger IC.
Bid to lower solar cell costs
24 May, 2010
Dow Corning has signed a three-year contract with IMEC to perform joint research on the next generation of crystalline silicon solar cells.
Scientists see lithium-ion battery flaws
20 May, 2010
Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of ‘seeing’ chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.
Rapid car battery charging may pose grid problems
12 May, 2010
Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid. The development of methods to rapidly recharge cars is just one of the company's contributions to Denmark's Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid.
Energy-scavenging power sensors
03 May, 2010
It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in electronic devices that need to work for a long period of time, either in biomedical monitoring systems worn by a patient or in monitors for machinery or industrial installations in remote or inaccessible situations.
B&K Precision XLN series of DC power supplies
22 April, 2010 | Supplied by: Unispan Instruments Pty Ltd
The B&K Precision XLN series of DC power supplies provides up to 1440 W of power in a 1U, full-rack case for rack mounting in an ATE environment or for benchtop use.
B&K Precision 9150 series single-output, linear-regulated DC power supply
22 April, 2010 | Supplied by: Unispan Instruments Pty Ltd
B&K Precision has introduced the 9150 single-output, linear-regulated DC power supply series with four affordable models providing varying voltage and current levels in the 500 range.
austriamicrosystems AS8510 precision data acquisition front-end IC
22 April, 2010 | Supplied by: Arrow Electronics Australia Pty Ltd
austriamicrosystems has announced the AS8510, a high-precision data acquisition front-end IC for motor vehicle battery current, voltage, temperature sense applications and in general for sensor interface applications where precise measurement of small signals close to ground is required.
Generating power in molecular circuits
22 April, 2010
Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Centre of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit.
