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In a move to intensify its Marketplace initiative Digi-Key Electronics has sealed a global distribution partnership withACEINNA.

Every so often, a sector of the electronics industry gains a significant technology advance thanks to years of research and innovation. It was recently the power electronics sector’s turn to benefit from semiconductor process technology innovations that led to wide bandgap (WBG) device developments. Mouser Electronics’ Mark Patrick explains.

Smart cities are now much more ambitious. That means new materials are their biggest enabler, with information and computer technology dropping to an important support role. The major new IDTechEx report, 'Smart Cities Emerging Materials Markets 2021-2041'explains.

Efficient Power Conversion has advanced the performance capability while lowering the cost of off-the-shelf gallium nitride transistors with the introduction of EPC2218 and EPC2204 100 V eGaN FETs.The applications for these devices include synchronous rectification, class-D audio, infotainment systems, DC/DC converters (hard-switched and resonant), and lidar for autonomous cars, robotics, and drones.

Building upon the advantages of STMicroelectronics’ MasterGaN platform, MasterGaN2 is the first in the new family to contain two asymmetric gallium-nitride (GaN) transistors, delivering an integrated GaN solution suited to soft-switching and active-rectification converter topologies.

Estimates show that wave power could supply ten percent of the global demand for energy by the year 2050. If true, this would be a significant boost to a greener future, but currently, this renewable energy source is still in development. Here, Chris Johnson, Managing Director ofSMB Bearings, explains how bearings will be a key enabler of ocean power.

Flex Power Modules has announced the BMR683, a new series of digital PMBus DC/DC converters primarily aimed at radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) applications and infrastructure for the 5G telecom market. The new converter family provides monitoring functionality and control of the feedback loop to help stabilisation.

Sydney based consumer electronics brand, Chargeasap has announced the availability of a new, even smaller 65W GaN charger as a stretch goal on its current Kickstarter campaign. Following the success of its 200W and 100W Omega GaN charger campaign to date with over $1m raised, the 65W Omega, will be available for just $33. The campaign ends on the 10th October with shipping expected to start in January 2020.

The skylines of big cities like New York, London and so many others in the world have been shaped by skyscrapers. These high-rise buildings typically draw their power from the traditional carbon fuel grid. Here, Matthew Stone, Chairman at NextGen Nano, has explained how the integration of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells to commercial buildings can assist in the production of green energy for cleaner cities.

One day solar ‘power stations’ as we know them will be banned and agrivoltaics will grow. On land and lake, no more blinding of large areas with black solar panels, throttling life. Substituting vast industrial desolation for a natural paradise or prime agriculture ruins tourism and the planet. It will become illegal or at least bad business because the new vertical photovoltaics boosts farming, obscures little and acts as a useful wi...