Brill believes its new technique in battery balancing can help significantly increase battery life and capacity.
October 11, 2021 by Jake Hertz
In a world demanding fewer wires, ST’s new wireless power receiver chip promises to deliver fast and efficient wireless charging to mobile and wearable devices.
October 09, 2021 by Kristijan Nelkovski
The need for smaller batteries with higher energy and power density has given rise to new technology: the microbattery. What is this technology and what research has been revolving around it?
October 03, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Many challenges plague the US electric grid. However, once a power strain on the grid, data centers could flip the switch and help the grid instead of drag it down.
September 29, 2021 by Jake Hertz
While asset tags are a critical puzzle piece to Industry 4.0, these devices are plagued by short battery life. Now, onsemi has literally stretched the lifespan limits—to five years.
September 27, 2021 by Jake Hertz
A forerunner to the spirit of modern “makers," Sir Clive Sinclair is remembered for over 40 years of electronics entrepreneurship.
September 23, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
At this year's Apple Event 2021, the company announced details about the newest Apple A-series cellular SoC—the A15 Bionic—and the iPhone13.
September 20, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Sila Nanotechnologies has spent the last ten years trying to push Li-ion batteries to the next level using silicon as an anode material and has finally made it to market within the Whoop 4.0.
September 10, 2021 by Jake Hertz
StoreDot's unique battery chemistry is just the start of the company's interesting claims. It also plans to make its technology open source—and send it to space.
September 03, 2021 by Biljana Ognenova
Research on UTokyo and U-M's "charging room" could help power your cell phone and other items from anywhere in the room using up to 50 watts of magnetoquasistatic wireless power transfer.
September 02, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
As EV adoption accelerates, so too are reports of battery fires on the rise. But are these fires all that more common than ICE vehicle fires?
August 31, 2021 by Lianne Frith
AI applications bring with them many challenges, including data processing and memory. Samsung hopes to take on these issues by combining processing-in-memory with high bandwidth memory.
August 30, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.
Hoping to take on long-haul trucking electrification, Siemens and Traton re-invent the cable car system and pantographs to create an e-Highway solution.
August 21, 2021 by Biljana Ognenova
Different types of robots require different types of charging. Wibotic can keep options flexible by providing programmable onboard chargers.
August 17, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar
The push for greener technology keeps aiming higher, this time targeting avionics. Microchip and Clean Skys have teamed up to create a family of baseless power modules.
August 14, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
MIT and Ericsson are doubling down on two projects: 1) Explore the merits of lithium for brain-inspired computing and 2) Find the key to charger-free devices.
August 13, 2021 by Kristijan Nelkovski
While electric motors have primarily hinged on radial motor technology over the past 50 years, axial-flux designs are now surging ahead.
August 11, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.
Some wearable manufacturers don’t consider energy harvesting (of any sort) a good return on investment. In pursuit of self-powered wearables, EE researchers are looking to change that.
August 05, 2021 by Kristijan Nelkovski
As the rush for more eco-friendly electronics and vehicles progresses, CATL, Xtreme Power Conversion, and Natron Energy are banking on sodium-ion in their new technologies.
August 03, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Often overlooked, reference designs can be an EEs best friend. Maxim Integrated, STMicroelectronics, and Microchip aim to help design facial detecting IoT, MasterGaN devices, and for Qi 1.3.
July 31, 2021 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.
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