The shift to 800-volt systems and Silicon Carbide inverters, while increasing efficiency, imposes extreme thermal and electrical stress on passive components like capacitors, effectively trading short ...

What if the future of energy storage wasn’t just an incremental improvement but a complete reimagining? Solid-state batteries, long considered the holy grail of energy technology, could be the key to ...

Texas Rep. Will Metcalf and the owners of a longtime Conroe business are looking to state and county officials to halt a project that will bring natural gas pipeline compressor stations to Conroe, ...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has started supplying silicon capacitors to Marvell Technology, a leading US integrated circuit (IC) design company. This development marks Samsung Electro-Mechanics's first ...

Ideally, the Airmoto Smart Air Pump is the kind of product you rarely need, but it’s one you sure are glad to have when that need arises. Take it from me, the guy who found himself stranded with a ...

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Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, devastating lives and businesses. Identified by a scourge of electrolytic capacitors violently exploding or splurging ...

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Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, yet where does this ‘fact’ come from and is it even correct? These are the ...

Single-phase motors, adjustable-speed drives (ASDs), and power factor (PF) correction applications often depend on capacitors to operate properly. This article explains how to test these critical ...