Two of the hottest sectors in the ESG revolution right now are hydrogen and absolutely anything that ties into the $5 trillion global transportation industry. Investors are piling into hydrogen – a potential solution for a clean energy future – and it's now predicted to become an $11 trillion marketplace by 2050.

Lithium-ion batteries – also called Li-ion batteries - are used by millions of people every day. This article looks at what lithium-ion batteries are, gives an evaluation of their characteristics, and discusses system criteria such as battery life and battery charging.

Fuel cells play a key role in the transition to renewables in power and mobility. But the energy efficiency of these cells poses a major challenge, particularly in automotive engineering. The individual components need to be as light and small as possible, yet attain a high efficiency factor.

Automotive batteries salvaged from scrapped vehicles can serve a useful second life within a stationary battery system, provided that the battery system has a suitable, reconfigurable topology. This article describes a paper presented at the PCIM Europe Digital Days 2020, which explains the challenges of using second life batteries, and proposes a solution.

Most of the top patent applicants in battery technology are multinational corporations whose business and R&D activities span many regions and countries. This article looks at the geographical origins of inventions and innovations related to battery technologies*.

Two of the hottest sectors in the ESG revolution right now are hydrogen and absolutely anything that ties into the $5 trillion global transportation industry. Investors are piling into hydrogen – a potential solution for a clean energy future – and it's now predicted to become an $11 trillion marketplace by 2050.

Menlo Microsystems, the company which claims it is re-inventing the electronic switch, has announced the production release of its first high-performance RF switch manufactured with their novel Ideal SwitchTM IP.

Technology is destined to totally transform industry, with new and exciting technologies taking center-stage to bring significant improvements in efficiency and results. Despite the dominance of technology, however, the human element still plays an important role.

Nowadays the use of lithium-ion batteries is growing very quickly in numerous fields of application, including high performance electric vehicles as well as grid-tied power converters for the integration of renewable energy.

Wide band-gap power semiconductor devices such as SiC and GaN devices break thermal operating limits and switching speed limits of the Si semiconductors.

Many publications have already dealt with the unwanted parasitic turn-on (PTO) of semiconductor devices and how to get rid of it. But in the same-titled paper, it was shown that high power applications may even benefit from a small PTO.

Without semiconductors, the world would be a very different place; we would have no electronic hand calculators, microwave ovens, digital alarm clocks, cellphones, personal computers, electronically controlled transmissions, or washing machines.

A team of researchers from South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology claims to have developed a faster charging and longer lasting battery material that can charge cars up to 90 percent in a record time of just 6 minutes.

Power electronics development tools have come a long way forward, thanks to affordable and ever-increasing, performance wise, digital signal processing solutions. Modeling and simulations, both off-line and more importantly, in the real-time, are essential steps in the development of power electronics solutions.

Following decades of research, engineers and scientists at the University of Rochester have reportedly achieved the long-sought goal that could ‘break down barriers and open the door to many potential applications.’

In recent research, scientists have found a way to correct qubit loss in a trapped-ion quantum processor, providing what they call a “complete toolbox” for the correction of qubit loss that constitute the building blocks of complete and scalable quantum error correction.

The finFET is a transistor design which attempts to overcome the worst types of short-channel effect encountered by transistors while enabling chips to achieve higher performance metrics at a lower cost.

There’s a constant need to reduce size while simultaneously providing higher density for power devices, however, finFETs could soon run out of steam. Of all the potential successors to finFETs, GAAFETs appear to be the most promising of all.

As part of the Qualcomm Platform Solutions Ecosystem program, semiconductor company STMicroelectronics is collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies in the area of sensor technology to develop innovative software solutions.

Power electronics development tools have come a long way forward, thanks to affordable and ever-increasing, performance wise, digital signal processing solutions. Modeling and simulations, both off-line and more importantly, in the real-time, are essential steps in the development of power electronics solutions.