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Murata has developed a container-scale energy storage system for instantaneous voltage drop countermeasures, and will market it with Japan Facility Solutions. “A momentary drop in power system voltage such as due to lightning strikes to power transmission lines may have a large impact, such as the stoppage of production lines in factories,” said Murata. “Furthermore, ...
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A new type of bendable OLED panel has been developed in Germany by lighting panel manufacturer, OLEDWorks and BASF’s Coatings division. The bendable panels, named Brite 3, will be introduced at the 2018 Light + Building exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. The bendable design is possible due to the flexible barrier solutions from BASF. The encapsulation ...
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Diamond is the key to a room-temperature maser that can operate continuously, according to Imperial College London, which has made one. “This breakthrough paves the way for the widespread adoption of masers and opens the door for a wide array of applications that we are keen to explore,” said Imperial lead researcher Dr Jonathan Breeze. ...
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Farnell element14 has teamed up with Rohde & Schwarz to launch its “University IoT Challenge”, a competition for university students in electronics. The competition challenges students to come up with creative ideas using £5,000 worth of technology components to create an IoT-based product that could be used by individuals needing assistance in their everyday lives. ...
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Gresham Power Electronics has introduced a 500W dc-dc converter for military and non-tactical vehicle mounted communications and security systems. Called GPD500 is now available from the Salisbury-based power supply maker, which accepts inputs between 10 to 20Vdc and delivers regulated 24Vdc output, designed to meet the requirements of MIL-STD 1275D. “Sophisticated electronics developed for military ...
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Hydrogen- powered roadsweeping has come to Aberdeen with this cleaner-sweeper truck (pictured) which has been adapted to run on both diesel and hydrogen. Emission savings of around 30% are projected from the Use of hydrogen. The sweepers are refuelled at the Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage (ACHES) hydrogen station, which makes hydrogen from renewable electricity, on ...
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Brain scanning is not possible through a hat, according to the University of Nottingham. The technique used is magnetoencephalography (MEG), which senses the tiny magnetic fields created by electrical signals in the brain. Once, this would have required bulky super-cooled equipment because it needed ‘squids’ – superconducting quantum interference devices – as sensors. In these ...
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Micro system-level IC (“uSLIC”) modules from Maxim claim to deliver switching regulators with the size and simplicity of a linear regulator (LDO). The MAXM17532 and MAXM15462 power modules measure 2.6mm x 3.0mm x 1.5mm. Maxim’s uSLIC power modules shrink the power supply by 2.25x with an ultra-small package size, achieved by integrating a synchronous wide-input ...
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Toshiba has general availability of KumoScale, its new NVMe-oF (NVM Express over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving ...
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Toshiba is adding 3D flash memory-based PCI Express NVMe and SATA SSDs in multiple form factors. The new CD5, XD5 and HK6-DC SSDs enable infrastructure managers to address performance and workload demands by offering robust performance and reliability with lower operating power for read-intensive applications such as NoSQL databases, big data analytics and streaming media. ...
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