Rohm offers big tantalum capacitors in 1608 size
Rohm Semiconductor has introduced a tantalum capacitor with a package structure that allows a 4V/100µF device to be offered in a 1608 size. The package design includes a high efficiency bottom...
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Not so quick to call the market bounce back
Guest columnist Edmund Coady, sales director at Charcroft Electronics, asks whether extended lead times on many passive components is evidence of sustained recovery in the market or just a short-lived...
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Colour rendering from LED lighting
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Inside: Heliatek’s organic solar cell
Earlier this week, Dresden-based Heliatek claimed a world organic solar cell efficiency record: 9.8%. Although the record setting cell was 1cm2 and made on glass, the firm is entirely focussed on...
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Touchscreen uses scatter, works with gloves, or anything
Swedish start-up FlatFrog has an in-glass touchscreen that uses scattered light to provide multi-touch. “The capacitive technology used in most competing screens reacts to electronic fields in the...
View ArticleRelays latch on to smart meter designs
By 2020 as many as 78 million electricity smart meters will need to use AC latching and power relays to manage the supply and measurement of electricity to the user, writes Steve Drumm Most of...
View ArticleAltera to launch 20nm FPGAs next year
Altera intends to launch 20nm products next year with volume production starting in 2014, Bradley Howe, senior vice president for R&D at Altera, told a meeting in London this morning. The process...
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Electronica 2012: Tackling component obsolescence
Electronica 2012 will host an Obsolescence Day on November 14 in Munich when COG Deutschland will present management strategies for solving the problems of obsolete components. The short product life...
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Market is heading out of the Doldrums
The maritime cliché “heading out of the Doldrums” nicely summarises the performance of the UK electronic components market in the first half of 2014. Having weathered the stormy waters of the global...
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Intersil rad-hard multiplexers offer ESD protection
Intersil has introduced rad hard multiplexers that offer ESD protection, signal chain accuracy and timing performance. ESD protection ISL71840SEHEV1Z, and ISL71841SEHEV1Z The ISL71840SEH 30V 16-channel...
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