Cornell Dubilier Electronics, Inc. subsidiary CD Snow Hill, LLC, has acquired the capacitor producing assets of NWL, Inc. Now possessing greater capabilities in custom high-voltage film capacitors for pulsed power and power conversion applications, the company is poised to expand its solutions for industrial, military, and medical customers. “NWL has long been an industry leader…
Series of new supercapacitors operate at higher voltages
Cornell Dubilier announces the introduction of a new series of higher voltage and high energy density supercapacitors. The series will be released under the Illinois Capacitor brand. DSF Supercapacitors offer a notable jump in voltage rating over typical supercapacitors to 3.0 WVDC for a single component and 6.0 WVDC for a dual-pack device. This higher voltage…
Zortrax introduces Endureal industrial 3D printer
Zortrax, a developer of 3D printers, launched the Zortrax Endureal at the TCT Show 2019 in Birmingham. This 3rd generation 3D printer is for industry and production lines. It has a large working field, dual-extrusion technology, an enclosed heated printing chamber and features that control the print quality and security. The new device combines high […]
Capacitors 3D printed on the DragonFly system deliver accuracy
Nano Dimension Ltd., announced it has developed 3D printed capacitors with the DragonFly additive manufacturing system. These capacitors are embedded in the body of the additively manufactured printed circuit boards (PCBs), saving space and eliminating the need for assembly. This breakthrough in the additive manufacturing of electronics validates the manufacturing applicability of built in capacitors […]
Supercapacitor modules from Eaton available from Newark
Newark, the Development Distributor, has broadened its portfolio of passive devices with the addition of the new supercapacitor modules from Eaton, enabling design engineers to optimize equipment footprints, improve efficiency and reduce costs. This supercapacitor line includes highly reliable, high power, ultra-high capacitance energy storage devices that are tailored to work with applications for backup…
Filtering out common mode noise with monolithic EMI filters
Many factors increase the amount of “noise” interference that can damage or disturb the functionality of electronic devices. Today’s automobiles are a prime example. In a single vehicle, you can find Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, satellite radio, GPS systems, and that’s just the beginning. To manage this noise interference, the industry typically uses shielding along with EMI…
MTC UK R&D facility will additively build electronic components 24/7 using a DragonFly LDM 3D Printer
Nano Dimension Ltd., a leading additive electronics provider announced that the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) became the first R&D facility in the United Kingdom to purchase Nano Dimension’s DragonFly LDM precision additive manufacturing system for electronics. MTC will use the Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing System to additively build electronic components, such as multi-layer printed circuit boards […]
TT Electronics to launch new series of sensors for industrial and medical apps at Sensors Expo
TT Electronics is exhibiting at Booth #530 at Sensors Expo where several of the company’s leading engineers will be onsite to introduce attendees to the features and benefits of an extensive range of high-performance, high-reliability sensing solutions. Exhibition highlights include the launch of the new OPB9001 Series reflective sensors; two new optoelectronics product releases: the OPF350A […]
Toward a Low-Cost Industrialization of Lithium-Ion Capacitors
Combining two additives instead of one to facilitate the incorporation of lithium within capacitors: that is the solution proposed by researchers from l’Institut des matériaux Jean Rouxel (CNRS/Université de Nantes), in collaboration with Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (University of Münster, Germany), in order to promote the low-cost, simple, and efficient development of the lithium-ion capacitors…
Chemists Could Make ‘Smart Glass’ Smarter by Manipulating it at the Nanoscale
“Smart glass,” an energy-efficiency product found in newer windows of cars, buildings and airplanes, slowly changes between transparent and tinted at the flip of a switch. “Slowly” is the operative word; typical smart glass takes several minutes to reach its darkened state, and many cycles between light and dark tend to degrade the tinting quality…
Self-Powered Wearable Tech
For emerging wearable tech to advance, it needs improved power sources. Now researchers from Michigan State University have provided a potential solution via crumpled carbon nanotube forests, or CNT forests. Changyong Cao, director of MSU’s Soft Machines and Electronics Laboratory, led a team of scientists in creating highly stretchable supercapacitors for powering wearable electronics. The…
New supply module from Beckhoff accommodates cabinet-free servo drive installation
To reduce cabinet and enclosure requirements for machine builders and manufacturers, Beckhoff Automation has announced the new AMP8620 supply module. The AMP8000 Distributed Servo Drive system provides optimal support for the implementation of modular machine concepts. With the AMP8620 supply module’s IP 65 protection rating and consistent decentralization, the entire motion system can now be […]
Need More Energy Storage? Just Hit ‘Print’
Researchers from Drexel University and Trinity College in Ireland, have created ink for an inkjet printer from a highly conductive type of two-dimensional material called MXene. Recent findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that the ink can be used to print flexible energy storage components, such as supercapacitors, in any size or shape. Conductive inks have…
At SPIE Sensor Conference: Material Advances Pave Way for Future Electronics
Not surprisingly, advances in areas like radar technologies and photonics were very much in evidence at the SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing conference in Baltimore last week. But the wide-ranging technical conference also uncovered some interesting developments in materials, enabling the development of flexible, high-strength electronics for industrial, medical, and other applications. Several speakers discussed…
What Does it Take to Make a Better Battery?
Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution. Like many of us, when I wake up I reach for the phone on my bedside table and begin scrolling through Twitter, Instagram, email and news apps. I listen to streamed music as…
Innovative electric motors sport axial designs
Novel axial flux designs now coming off the drawing boards could become the primary means of powering future generations of electric vehicles. Leland Teschler | Executive Editor If you build an electric motor whose rotor and stator are flat, not cylindrical as in ordinary motors, you are devising what’s called an axial motor. Axial motors,…
Don’t forget these two things when selecting an amplifier for a servo-motion application
Using software to size motion designs is rewarding because engineers can efficiently predict which products are suitable for the application at hand. But key considerations (sometimes missed) when selecting a servo amplifier are those of dynamic braking and regenerative resistor braking. By Sixto Moralez • Regional Motion Engineer Phil Drexler • Regional Motion Engineer | […]
Silver Nanowires Promise More Comfortable Smart Textiles
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications have developed a simple, scalable and low-cost capillary-driven self-assembly method to prepare flexible and stretchable conductive fibers that have applications in wearable electronics and smart fabrics. A simple, scalable and low-cost capillary-driven self-assembly method to prepare conductive…
ELEXCON 2018 spotlights smart electronics of the future
Elexcon 2018 is held every year at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. This year it’s being held December 20 to 22 2018 and will feature cutting edge technologies including AI, 5G, smart home, IoT, smart driving, new energy, and intelligent systems. Elexcon 2018 will feature three technology hubs all aimed at the current industry…
High-Voltage IGBT Products for Industrial Power Modules
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation (“MagnaChip”) announced that volume production has commenced for an IGBT product for power module targeted to high-voltage industrial applications. IGBT is one of a MagnaChip family of Power standard products called Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors. The new IGBT P-series (“MBW100T120PHF”) has both high current and high voltage capabilities of 1200V and 100A,…
Hall effect 3D position sensors allow active stray field compensation
TDK Corporation expands its Micronas position sensor portfolio with the Hall-sensor family HAL 39xy featuring stray-field compensation capability built on the highly flexible architecture for multidimensional magnetic-field measurements marketed under the trademark masterHAL. The sensors meet today’s and tomorrow’s automotive and industrial market needs and offer four different measurement modes in a single device: Linear position […]
世界上最高效的车辆使用无刷motor in drivetrain
One little hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle holds the Guinness world record for the most efficient vehicle … and uses a slotless brushless 60L-H-175-A from Koford Motors to drive its rear power wheel. This year, the tiny car from the Duke Electric Vehicles team beat the 12,600-mpg efficiency of the PAC CAR 2, in turn designed by […]
What’s new in supercapacitors for energy harvesting?
At Sensors Expo 2018, Pierre Mars, head of the applications team at Cap-XX, a supercapacitor manufacturer from Australia, explains the supercapacitor demos in their booth. Using a 800 mF supercapacitor provides the energy to power a 2.9V near-field communication (NFC) 13.5 MHz sensor puck from Silicon Labs. With the charged supercapacitor (above 2.6V) the unit […]
Socket Design Uses High-Performance Elastomer Capable of 75 GHz
Breaking The Guinness World Record For Fuel Efficiency
Duke Engineering is now the official home of the most fuel-efficient vehicle in history, a hydrogen fuel cell car that gets the equivalent of 14,573 miles per gallon. Duke Electric Vehicles (DEV’s) record-breaking run took place on Saturday, July 21 at Galot Motorsports in Benson, North Carolina. Guinness World Records has confirmed that the attempt to set a new…