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Opportunities for power electronics in electric vehicles
The day is coming when electric vehicles (EVs) land, water and airborne are as much as 80% electronics and electrics if we include the power components. It is even true of hybrids as they shed piston engines and employ ever smaller range extenders, the fuel cell option being fully electric.
Are High Reliability Applications Safe?
We increasingly rely on systems where an error could cause financial disaster, organisational chaos, or in the worst case, death. Could the mandatory use of open source software improve safety and security in High Reliability applications? Robert Dewar, Co-founder and President of AdaCore, explores this question in detail in this insightful article from ES Design magazine.
Less Than One Week To IDTechEx's Printed Electronics Europe Event
Next week, Printed Electronics Europe will open in Berlin, Germany on April 17-18. About 1,400 people are pre-registered - with final numbers expected to be considerably more. The conference and tradeshow covers the broad range of emerging materials and devices, including OLEDs, touch surfaces, TFTs, stretchable and textile electronics, the Internet of Things, energy generation and much more - with presentations, exhibitors and attendees covering...
Altair Releases HyperWorks 12.0 Providing Unprecedented Levels of Usability and Performance to Engineers
Altair today announced the release of HyperWorks 12.0, the most comprehensive computer-aided engineering platform in the PLM market. HyperWorks 12.0 offers new functionalities and end-user productivity advancements in product optimization, finite element modeling, multiphysics analysis, powertrain durability analysis, lightweight design and many others.
Carbon Nanotubes Find Niche Markets In Supercapacitors For Aviation
Supercapacitors have drawn much attention in recent years due to their high power density, reversibility, and long cycle life. They are being used in automotive applications as stop-start idle elimination system in cars. This can reduce up to 15% of fuel costs in urban driving and reduce related CO2 emissions. For example, Lamborghini just announced that they will use Maxwell Technologies supercapacitors for this purpose in all Lamborghini Aventa...
L-3 Link Simulation & Training upgrades Boeing 777 full-flight simulator with ReaLED technology
Today’s commercial aviation operators are looking for cost effective, high-fidelity and stable solutions for visual displays. The brand new Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) is being manufactured by L-3 Link Simulation & Training UK (L-3 Link UK) at its Crawley, UK facility.
Thanks for 70 years of driving innovation
In the last 70 years, Brüel & Kjær systems have measured sound on the International Space Station and ensured all of NASA‘s Mars rovers survived the journey there. Our accelerometers have turned the Golden Gate Bridge into a giant harp and helped maintain hydroelectric generators around the world, while our world-leading microphones and hydrophones have investigated everything from submarines off Sweden to the pressure in Boeing’s wind tunn...
Biomimetic aircraft snatch power aloft
Solar powered aircraft are old news. From Solar Impulse supporting one person day and night with nothing but photovoltaics on the wings to the high altitude unmanned aircraft being developed by Boeing to stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for five years on nothing but sunshine, it is all very exciting. However, if we benchmark what is happening with other electric vehicles such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUV, then multiple energy harvestin...
RFMD Wins DARPA GaN Contract to Enhance High Power RF Amplifier Performance
RF Micro Devices today announced it has been awarded a $2.1 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to enhance the thermal efficiency of gallium nitride (GaN) circuits used in high power radar and other military systems.
Energy Harvesting Opportunities in Vehicles
The automotive industry is at a time of total change with every component and subsystem subject to radical and rapid change. Consider urban buses. Only a five years ago, almost all of these were powered by very old internal combustion engine technology. Then came the hybrids, with 600 being introduced in London at the present. These used nickel metal hydride batteries then some used lithium-ion batteries to provide a plug-in option. However, thes...