According to industry analysts IHS the power semiconductor sector has not had a terrific time in recent years with less than impressive market growth in 2013. Admittedly this was followed by a stronger performance in 2014 and if my discussion with exhibiting c...
By Paul Whytock | 21-05-2015
Widespread adoption of Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors as silicon MOSFET replacements is now an economic reality, says California-based power semiconductor company Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). This bold proclamation follows the launch of its 60V EPC2035...
By Paul Whytock | 14-05-2015
Power supplies for modern digital ICs have stringent requirements for performance, demanding high capacitance and compact capacitors that are also cost-effective. Electrolytic capacitors are the most obvious choice, but when specifying these devices, it’s impo...
By Ekaterina Rachel | 12-05-2015
Death by PowerPoint has now reached epidemic proportions. Here are some stats. There are approx 30 million presentations made daily throughout the world and whilst you're reading this close on a million are happening now. And the sad fact is most of the audien...
By Paul Whytock | 07-05-2015
Electropages Podcasts
Mouser Electronics teamed up with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara and experts in the space industry to launch an exciting new Space Exploration Series and Space Challenge that puts engineers in space. The educational program is part of the Empowering Innovati...
By Paul Whytock | 29-04-2015
We all know the scenario, the lightening quick juggling of various bottles of booze that miraculously deposit measures of alcohol into a cocktail shaker which then produces a very palatable potion. It's all part of the fun of visiting a really good bar. So how...
By Paul Whytock | 23-04-2015
Smart fabrics that can change colour, charge a phone and keep you warm in cold weather are not so much the future of smart textiles in fashion but the here and now of sartorial progress. Materials with extremely delicate conductive fibres woven into them are a...
By Paul Whytock | 16-04-2015
Most of us have heard of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland, the machine tasked with smashing particles of matter together to simulate the conditions in the moments after the Big Bang, generally regarded as the creation of the Universe. How...
By Paul Whytock | 10-04-2015
The 34th floor of the London Shard was the location chosen by test and measurement specialists Keysight Technologies and Microlease, the instrumentation equipment management company, to announce a new joint agreement. Now, the events area of the Shangri La Hot...
By Paul Whytock | 08-04-2015
We journalists are spoilt creatures. We get invited to some very nice places to consume some extremely toothsome cuisine while hearing about and subsequently sitting in judgment on all sorts of technological developments. It was no real surprise then that the...
By Paul Whytock | 31-03-2015
I’m an old-school driver. I like to feel that it’s me in charge of the car, not a lot of invisible electronics and software that are switching my lights and wipers on when they think it necessary, nor squawking at me if I get too near a car when parallel parki...
By Paul Whytock | 25-03-2015
A fully encapsulated digital DC/DC PMBus power module that has a heat dissipation design which means power components sit directly on a copper lead frame allowing maximum power usage while maintaining a junction temperature of below 125ºC, had been developed b...
By Paul Whytock | 17-03-2015
Reducing the amount of wasted electrical energy consumed globally is recognised as a key environmental objective. Power devices used in electrical energy conversion and system control applications are frontline products that can either save or waste energy. Th...
By Paul Whytock | 10-03-2015
Too expensive, cold looking and not as durable as some of the sales hype would have you believe. These are still doubts that keep consumers dithering over whether to invest in LED lighting systems. But are they right to be cautious? Not anymore. Recent advance...
By Paul Whytock | 05-03-2015