Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science have grown a high-performing 2D semiconductor to a full-size, industrial-scale wafer. In addition, the semiconductor material, indium selenide (InSe), can be deposited at temperatures low enough to integrate with a silicon chip.

In these times when many trade fairs are postponed or even canceled, PCIM Europe will take place this year - as a digital alternative. In our interview, Lisette Hausser, Vice President PCIM Europe, Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH, provides insights into the event and explains its benefits for the industry.

This article explains the meaning of a switched-mode power supply and takes a closer look on its working priciples.

Impact Clean Power Technology S.A. – the European specialist in the electromobility market – begins construction of a modern battery systems factory – GigafactoryX – for the public transport, railroad sector and stationary energy storage for both the professional energy sector and individual users. The investment will multiply the company’s production capacity up to 5 GWh per year.

The advent of electric vehicles has given rise to the demand for lithium-ion batteries with high energy densities. This has led to the development of anodes with large charge storage capacity. Unfortunately, this storage capacity tends to degrade over multiple charge/discharge cycles, reducing the battery life.

Keysight Technologies, Inc., a technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that Keysight's PathWave RFPro, integrated with the Synopsys Custom Compiler design environment, is enabled to support TSMC's newest N6RF Design Reference Flow.

South Korean photovoltaic module manufacturer LG Electronics has announced that it has launched a 60-cell, 370 W module with a high efficiency of 21.4%. That "premium" monocrystalline solar panel product can reportedly produce 370 W from its 1.7m x 1m surface.

The £130 million UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, a “first of its kind” battery production development facility in Coventry, England, will soon be operational according to those behind the project.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced a range of expanded electronic design automation early design verification functionalities for its Calibre platform for integrated circuit (IC) physical verification. Engineered to help IC design teams and companies get to tapeout faster, these new capabilities can help IC designers "shift left" their physical and circuit verification tasks by moving the identification, analysis, and resolution of complex IC and system-on-chip physical verification issues into earlier stages of the design and verification flow.

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced seven new MOSFET and diode power modules designed specifically for on-board charger applications. Offered in a variety of circuit configurations, the integrated solutions combine high efficiency fast body diode MOSFETs and SiC, FRED Pt, and MOAT diode technologies in the compact EMIPAK 1B package featuring patented PressFit pin locking technology.