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Next step in organic flexible AMOLED unveiled
Plastic Logic has shown the second in its series of all-plastic flexible AMOLED display demonstrators. Building on the first demonstrator, shown at the Flextech Conference in Phoenix, AZ in February, the new display features an increased brightness, 256 grey levels, and full 30fps image rendering.
Caught in the headlights
The European Commission now mandates day time running lights (DRLs) and due to their benefits LEDs are almost exclusively used for this purpose; they now have an even brighter outlook. By Michael Weitz, System Engineer, TI.
Why the interest in e-textiles?
By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx The heart of the e-textile business as it emerges is electric and electronic functionality from sensing to light emission, achieved entirely by use of e-fibers. Components and interconnections intrinsic to the fabric, or at least widely distributed through the fabric, are less visible and not susceptible to becoming tangled together or snagged by the surroundings. An e-textile can be worn in everyday situat...
Power transistors to rebound after unprecedented slump
For more than three decades, power transistors have been the growth engine in the $21 billion commodity-filled discrete semiconductor market, handling the vital job of controlling, converting, and conditioning currents and voltages in an ever-expanding range of electronics—including battery-operated portable products, new energy-saving equipment, hybrid and electric vehicles, “smart” electric-grid applications, and renewable pow...
Turning Intel Inside Out—Big Changes Reshape MPU Giant
After missing major market opportunities in fast-growing smartphones and tablet computers, Intel continues to shake itself up in ways that would have been unthinkable several years ago, according to information in IC Insights’ newly released 140-page Update to the 2014 IC Market Drivers Report.
Audio power amplifier warns of EV approach
Drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles need no longer worry about pedestrians stepping out in front of their cars because they can’t hear them coming. Toshiba has developed a single chip audio power amplifier that adds the sound of a conventional internal combustion engine to electric and hybrid electric vehicles to ensure a minimum level of sound.
It’s a function of the junction
As the lifetime of LED lighting fixtures is a function of the LED junction temperature, the desire for compact lighting designs further emphasises the importance of thermal management. By Bernd Pflaum, Principal Engineer, Concept and Development, Linear and Switch mode LED Drivers, Infineon Technologies and Hakan Yilmazer, Head of Technical Marketing, Lighting Application, Infineon Technologies.
Flexible DC/DC converter targets hybrid power architectures
A DC/DC converter, claimed to be flexible, has been launched by GE. TheSHHN000A3CLfeatures an input voltage range of 9-36VDC and a bipolar dual output, an output voltage at 15 and -15VDC, 9W output power and a 0.3A output current.The converter can be used as a traditional DC/DC module, powering applications such as insulated-gate bipolar transistors and other semiconductor device drive circuits, or in hybrid power architectures and industrial mar...
MOSFETs handle extreme temperature operation
Designed for high-reliability, extreme temperature and extended lifetime applications, X-REL Semiconductor has announced four mid-power P-channel and two small-signal P- and N-channel MOSFETs. With excellent switching and linear characteristics, and very low leakage current, the transistors are suited for power conversion, power management, level translation and sensor interface applications.
Collaboration targets NBTI degradation at 14nm node & beyond
In a bid to advance the modeling of negative bias temperature instability (NBTI), Synopsys have announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology. The collaboration aims to provide semiconductor manufacturers with an insight into NBTI degradation and develop methods to mitigate its effects on FinFETs at the 14nm node and beyond.