Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated the acceleration of electrons through what they describe as an “On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator”, detailed in a recent paper published in the Science journal. by Tom Abate On a hillside above Stanford University, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory operates a scientific instrument nearly 2 miles long. In this […]
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At the moment I’m living in a block of flats and my mailbox is in a central lobby area. I’m often receiving small surprise packets from China and never know when the postman has been, usually between 8 and 12, sometimes even twice a day! I also don’t have any road facing windows that I
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Printed Circuit boards are an important part of the development of any electronics product. They provide an easy, neat and repeatable ways of connecting components together. Thus, ensuring quality from their design to production is so critical that, failure at any point in the process could lead to a lot of money going to waste
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Being one of the frontrunners in AI development and having an understanding of the potentials and opportunities in Edge Computing and Local AI, Google started its sojourn into the provision of hardware components and companion software tools for the development of Local AI products last year, with the launch of the Coral Platform. The platform which comprises hardware
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For a number of years now I’ve had a couple of high powered switching power supply units made by Power-One. They’re typically found in I.T. equipment and provide a single output rail of either 12 V or 48 V with a very high current rating. The other cool thing is that in the case of
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Torex Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and NGK Corporation will exhibit a compact power module sample that can be processed through high-temperature surface mount with using Torex power management ICs and NGK EnerCera series batteries at CES 2020 (January 7th to 10th, 2020 at Las Vegas in the USA). [via] By combining the characteristics of NGK EnerCera batteries which
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GaN Systems and ON Semiconductor announced the availability of the NCP13992UHD300WGEVB, the world’s highest power density 300W ac-dc adapter reference design using GaN Systems’ 650V, 15A gallium-nitride (GaN) E-HEMTs and multiple ON Semiconductor controller and driver ICs, including the NCP51820, NCP13992, NCP1616, and NCP4306. This complete system reference design is a highly versatile and low cost, allowing designers to
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Thanks to a host of useful feather wings and shields, the Adafruit Feather form factor is becoming a very popular one with a host of other boards now based on it, offering not only the shape and size but also pin compatibility to allow the use feather addons like the FeatherWings and shields. In line with this, Arturo (@Arturo182) recently announced
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Texas Instruments’ regulator features active output circuitry making it an excellent Zener diode replacement in many applications. Texas Instruments’ ATL431LI device is a three-terminal adjustable shunt regulator with specified thermal stability over applicable automotive, commercial, and military temperature ranges. The output voltage can be set to any value between VREF (approximately 2.5 V) and 36 V, with two external resistors.
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Augmented and Virtual Reality rank among the top 10 technologies driving Industry 4.0 and while they are having a huge impact on the development of new devices, it’s interesting to see them also being used as a major ingredient in the technology development process. This was one of the reasons why a while back we took a
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