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Amphenol Advanced Sensors Pipe Clip Temperature Sensors | New Product Brief

Amphenol Advanced Sensors Pipe Clip Temperature Sensors | New Product Brief

Amphenol Advanced Sensors JS8741 are high sensitivity clip-on temperature sensors used to monitor fluid or gas temperature in pipes or tubing.


new products Dec 03, 2018 by Mouser
Vicor Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

Vicor Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 Evaluation Board | New Product Brief

Vicor’s Cool-Power ZVS PI3740 evaluation board provides designers many convenient features to simplify evaluating the PI3740 buck-boost regulator.


new products Nov 30, 2018 by Mouser
KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS Thermal Reed Switches | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics TRS thermal reed switches provide precise, highly reliable thermal switching for energy saving applications.


new products Nov 21, 2018 by Mouser
Power Integrations Introduces New Family of Brushless DC Motor Drive ICs

Power Integrations Introduces New Family of Brushless DC Motor Drive ICs

Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch™ family of ICs achieve conversion efficiency of up to 98.5% in brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive applications of up to 300 W.


News Nov 16, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Texas Instruments Releases Digital Temperature Sensor Family for Medical and Industrial Applications

Texas Instruments Releases Digital Temperature Sensor Family for Medical and Industrial Applications

Texas Instruments today announced a new family of digital temperature sensors, the TMP117x.


News Oct 25, 2018 by Gary Elinoff
Use It Or Lose It? What Should You Do with Non-Functional Pads?

Use It Or Lose It? What Should You Do with Non-Functional Pads?

Circuit board stacks of four or more layers often have through vias that attach to pads on layers where there is no electrical connection. Should those non-function pads stay, or should they go? This article presents the problem and provides resources.


KEMET OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors | New Product Brief

KEMET OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors | New Product Brief

KEMET Electronics’ OHD Series Thermal Guard Sensors provide highly reliable, high speed on/off operation based on atmospheric temperature detection or component overheating, providing safety standard conformity and effective thermal threshold control.


new products Oct 08, 2018 by Mouser
Ohmite TKH45 Power Resistors | Tech Specs

Ohmite TKH45 Power Resistors | Tech Specs

The TKH45 series resistors from Ohmite have the same footprint as standard TO-252 resistors but are a smaller size, measuring 0.91 mm thick.


new products Aug 28, 2018 by TTI, Inc
World’s Smallest Single-Atom Transistor Functions at Room Temperature, Sans Semiconductor

World’s Smallest Single-Atom Transistor Functions at Room Temperature, Sans Semiconductor

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have announced a working single-atom transistor that operates at room temperature without a semiconductor present.


News Aug 23, 2018 by David Jones
Vishay LTO Series Power Thick Film Resistors | Tech Specs

Vishay LTO Series Power Thick Film Resistors | Tech Specs

Vishay’s LTO 30, LTO 50, and LTO 100 are power resistors for use applications like power conversion, high-speed switching, and RF.


new products Aug 14, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Omron Electronics D6T Series MEMS Thermal Sensors | New Product Brief

Omron Electronics D6T Series MEMS Thermal Sensors | New Product Brief

Omron D6T Series MEMS Thermal Sensors are designed for non-contact temperature sensors and presence detection.


new products Aug 08, 2018 by Mouser
Omron D6T Series MEMS Thermal Sensors | Tech Specs

Omron D6T Series MEMS Thermal Sensors | Tech Specs

Omron provides true presence detection, rather than just motion detection, with their D6T MEMS Thermal Sensors.


new products Aug 02, 2018 by TTI, Inc
Choosing the Right Transistor: Understanding Low-Frequency MOSFET Parameters

Choosing the Right Transistor: Understanding Low-Frequency MOSFET Parameters

This article provides an overview of various characteristics and specifications that are relevant to low-frequency MOSFET operation.


Taking a Look at a TG-FS-IGBT: A Trench Gate Field-Stop IGBT from STMicroelectronics

Taking a Look at a TG-FS-IGBT: A Trench Gate Field-Stop IGBT from STMicroelectronics

This insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) can support 1200 V at 8 A. Additional devices can be added in parallel to support higher current demands.


News Jul 17, 2018 by Mark Hughes
TDK-Lambda Medical Products | Featured Product Spotlight

TDK-Lambda Medical Products | Featured Product Spotlight

TDK-Lambda’s CUS-M family of medical-grade AC/DC power supplies are high efficiency, high density, low-profile power supplies.


new products Jun 26, 2018 by Mouser
A Dual Channel DC/DC Converter for Power Supply Designs from Linear Technology

A Dual Channel DC/DC Converter for Power Supply Designs from Linear Technology

The LT8582 is a new dual channel DC/DC converter from Linear Technology.


News Jun 07, 2018 by Mark Hughes
A Replacement to LM75/TMP75 Digital Temperature Sensors: The Texas Instruments TMP1075

A Replacement to LM75/TMP75 Digital Temperature Sensors: The Texas Instruments TMP1075

Texas Instruments announces their new TMP1075, which is a replacement to the industry standard LM75 and TMP75 digital temperature sensors.


News May 22, 2018 by Nick Davis
A Modern Day Icarus: The Parker Solar Probe’s Mission to the Sun

A Modern Day Icarus: The Parker Solar Probe’s Mission to the Sun

How do we design, build, and test a sensitive piece of equipment for millions of times more heat and radiation exposure?


News May 21, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois
MINMAX’s MIZI03 3W DC-DC Converters and a Look at Standards for Railway Applications

MINMAX’s MIZI03 3W DC-DC Converters and a Look at Standards for Railway Applications

MINMAX has recently introduced the MIZI03 series of converters for railway applications.


News May 10, 2018 by Kate Smith
Teardown Tuesday: Space Heater

Teardown Tuesday: Space Heater

In this teardown, we dissect a rotating space heater that has two modes of operation: silence and turbo.


News Apr 17, 2018 by Nick Davis