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Ultracapacitors: Best Option for EV Energy Storage Technology

Embedded digital control facilitates adaptive power control strategies

Coupling a Supercapacitor with a Small Energy Harvesting Source

Power electronics for smart energy require innovative packaging technology

When the Power Fails: Designing for a Smart Meter’s Last Gasp

Circuit Protection Design for Photovoltaic Power Systems

Guidelines released for comparing energy efficiency of networking platforms

Top 10 articles in Smart Energy for 2011

Cost may gate li-ion batteries as an enabling technology for EVs

MEMS chip enables battery-free sensors

Component integration paces EV, hybrid power electronics efficiency

Hot topics in Smart Energy for 2011 – Part 1

Primary-Side-Control with Active PFC Offline LED Controller

MEMS enters world of precision archery

Sludge transformed into electricity using solar power, robots

Stanford's solar car uses STM32s for subsystems

Solyndra: Its technology and why it failed

IBM tries running data centers on solar power

High-Voltage CMOS process features galvanic isolation for smart-energy designs

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Technical Papers

Organic solar cells and OLEDs--A comparison of two competing approaches

Advanced EDS Design Tools Pave the Way for a Transition to Electric Vehicles

Synchronized Frequency Power Supply/Battery Charger

LED Lighting Reference Design Cookbook

Impact of Software on Energy Consumption

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Courses and Webinars

Power Architecture® Solutions for Smart Energy market

Harness your Power with Microsemi Photovoltaic Solutions

Latest Battery Technology for Portable Devices

Connectivity & Control for Industrial or Renewable Energy Applications

Getting the Most Energy out of Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Teardowns

Good vibrations for energy harvesting

CFL and LED lamps: White light in a 'green' world

Bluetooth headset turns to SUN and goes green

Shedding light on solar cell technology

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

Compact gate drive IC simplifies hybrid, EV power train design

IR PWM controllers deliver smallest footprint

Micrel aims to eliminate dropped mobile calls

LLC resonant controller cuts energy loss, BOM and size

LED driver controller handles demanding lighting applications

TI launches ZigBee Smart Energy system-on-chip with ARM Cortex-M3 processor

Green Hills releases nextgen smart energy platform

Ramtron energy-sipping FRAM serves low-power applications

New H-PSOF power-electronics packaging touts high-current capability and high efficiency

ST overcomes LED camera flash limitations

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Commentary

LED Challenge winners announced

Naomi Price

From a model of the Golden Gate Bridge to an LED version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar, the students came up with some fabulously creative entries.

post comment 2 comments last comment David Ashton
You can - follow Naomi's "Fall 2011..." link at the top of the article or this ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

post comment 30 comments last comment LiketoBike
Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Book review: CHIPS 2020

Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke reviews Chips 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanoelectronics, which sets out to discuss the need for and means of a transition from nanometer electronics to femtojoule electronics.

post comment 4 comments last comment Or_Bach
Monolithic 3D provides ~10,000x more vertical connectivity. 3D IC as an alternative to 0.7x scaling ...

Quick – Vote now!

Clive Maxfield

It’s time to stand up and be counted – are we going to let some yahoo from “e-Book Reader” or “Netbook News” beat one of our very own at EE Times? No we are not!

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I saw that you could vote more than once, you can do so daily, and I headed back to see if ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

post comment 106 comments last comment seaEE
This discussion no VCC and also the one on anode and cathode brings up something I've dwelled on in ...

Viewpoint: 'The R&D credit doesn't work'

Michael Rashkin

The R&D tax credit does not increase U.S. R&D expenditures, and the $10 billion we spend each year on the credit is mostly a financial transfer from the government to large multinational corporations with no benefit to U.S. taxpayers.

post comment 54 comments last comment G-Linden
Sorry, I did not see this comment earlier. I'm referring to the econometric evidence that, overall, ...

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News, Analysis, and Opinion

APEC: Linear Tech's perspective

APEC becomes big, and we're there

Cree claims LED price-performance breakthrough

Researchers develop novel form of hafnium oxide

CNSE receives federal grants for nanotechnologies

ITU approves G3-PLC as a new worldwide smart grid standard

Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) for grid technologies approved

Cisco rolls more routers for smart grids

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Veeco sees no near-term uptick in LED market

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