Batteries & Other Energy Storage Devices

July 2020

Buck/Boost Controllers Bring Bidirectional Regulation

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is now stocking the LT8228 and LTC7871 bidirectional buck/boost controllers from Analog Devices, Inc. Offering bidirectional voltage or current regulation and bidirectional reverse current protection, the LT8228 and LTC7871 controllers provide a simple, reliable power solution for dual-battery aut

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07/27/2020

RigidCSP Technology Serves Battery Management Applications

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) announced the release of RigidCSP for battery management. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has developed a RigidCSP technology where you can decrease the on-resistance while increasing the mechanical strength to reduce breakage during assembly and stress during the lifetime of

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07/24/2020

Chris Dries, the President and CEO of UnitedSiC

PSDcast – The H-1B Visa Restriction (Good for the Industry?)

You’ve probably heard that President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security took actions with mammoth ramifications for our industry. To whit, Trump restricted H-1B visas for engineers, computer programmers and other technical workers through 2020. Is this a boon for domestic employment or a shackle fo

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07/23/2020

Systematic automation as well as the use of AI in the planning and evaluation of test series will accelerate the development of new batteries.

New EU Project to Boost Battery Development

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

The BIG-MAP project, which is funded by the European Union (EU), aims to significantly shorten the time it takes to develop new types of batteries - with a special focus on sustainability. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Ulm University are participating in the project via the CELEST research pl

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07/21/2020

Thin Film Chip Resistors Available in 0201 Size

Power supplies and power controls have a wide range of sensing requirements. For applications that require high sensing precision, the element TCR is more important than low resistance values. Stackpole’s CSRT thin film current sense chip resistors provide resistance values from 10 milliohm to 10 ohm with T

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07/21/2020

Fast-Blow Fuses Designed for Handling Excessive Current

Bel Fuse-Circuit Protection announces their 0ABA Series of small 0402 surface mount fast-acting chip fuses. These fast blow fuses are designed for handling excessive current and set the industry standard for performance, reliability and quality. Bel’s 0ABA Series feature a 32V DC voltage rating of 200mA

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07/21/2020

Metal Catalysts to Optimize Zinc-Air Batteries

World Scientific

In a report published in NANO, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER) to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries. Three-dimensional porous gr

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07/19/2020

Alistair Davidson, Director, Consortium for Battery Innovation

PSDcast – A Major Research Collaboration for Lead Batteries

With our big automotive electric and hybrid issue right around the corner, we thought it’d informative to revisit one of the most critical topics in that space – energy storage. And we can think of no better source for that topic than the Consortium for Battery Innovation ...

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07/09/2020

CleanSpark, Inc., ReJoule Awarded $2.9 Million Battery Grant

CleanSpark, Inc. and ReJoule announced that they have been awarded a grant from the California Energy Commission. The grant is approximately $2.9 million and is slated to be deployed over the next 30 months. The funds will be distributed to the multi-group partnership of clean energy and technology companies

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07/09/2020

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Figure 1. Next-generation cars will be powered by a 12 V and a 48 V battery

IC Eases Design of 48 V/12 V Dual Battery Automotive Systems

Tony Armstrong, Analog Devices

The future of 48V/12V battery systems in automobiles is just around the corner. Most of the major automobile manufacturers across the globe have been working on proving out their systems for the past few years and it is evident that their implementation will be relatively near term. This is a necessary and crucial ste

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07/09/2020

The bipolar lead battery developed by Advanced Battery Concepts will undergo automotive testing regimes

Research into Next-Generation Automotive Battery Technology

One of the latest technology developments in lead batteries will undergo well-known automotive testing standards in a research project collaboration between Advanced Battery Concepts (ABC) and the Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI). Bipolar lead battery technology, which has been

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07/01/2020

High-Voltage Switcher ICs Now Certified for Automotive Use

Power Integrations announced an AEC-Q100-qualified version of its LinkSwitch-TN2 switcher IC for buck or non-isolated flyback applications. Featuring an integrated 750 V MOSFET, the new automotive-qualified LinkSwitch-TN2 IC provides simple and reliable power for EV sub-systems connected to the high-voltage bu

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07/01/2020