High-voltage capacitors take up less board space than comparable C0G dielectric capacitors
December 18, 2012 1:38 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAVX Corporation has added an N1500 super dielectric option to its high-voltage, multilayer ceramic (MLC), radial leaded capacitor series. An extension of the SV Series, the new N1500 super dielectric capacitors take up less board space and offer higher capacitance values than comparable C0G dielectric capacitors....
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Laser diodes designed for wide variety of applications
December 12, 2012 10:17 am | Product Releases | CommentsOSI Laser Diode, Inc. (LDI) introduces a product family of high power monolithic stack pulsed laser diodes for a wide variety of military/defense, industrial, automotive, and machine vision applications. Single and stacked pulsed laser diodes are available up to 375W and fiber-coupled devices are available up to 188W. Custom packaging is also available, upon customer request.
LISTED UNDER: Laser3.2W Class-D audio amplifiers feature 12dB of fixed gain
December 10, 2012 1:43 pm | Product Releases | CommentsNuvoton Technology Corporation introduced the NAU82039, a family of new Class-D audio amplifiers designed to optimize portable consumer devices. The new Nuvoton NAU82039 features high-efficiency mono, analog-input 3.2W Class-D power amplifier with 12dB of fixed gain....
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Lightning arrestors designed for 7/16 DIN applications
December 5, 2012 12:59 pm | Product Releases | CommentsNexTek announces the High RF Power K1-Series designed for protecting high power RF transmission lines of up to 50,000 Watts and the High Transient T1-Series has a transient rating to 100,000 Amps+. This new series of SurgeGuard lightning arrestors addresses the stringent demands of mission critical RF applications....
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Universal safety relay feature reduced footprint
December 4, 2012 3:00 pm | Product Releases | CommentsWieland Electric has expanded its offering of universal safety relays to include a small 22.5mm wide version. The SNO 4083KM Series relay is the smallest in its class, making it ideal for most mechanical engineering applications, particularly special machine engineering or smaller serial machines.
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Capacitors feature rated voltage of 600 V DC
December 3, 2012 10:22 am | Product Releases | CommentsTDK Corporation has extended the range of EPCOS aluminum electrolytic capacitors by adding types with higher rated voltages. For the screw terminal types in the new B43700* and B43720* series, the previous rated voltage of 550 V DC has been raised to 600 V DC.
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Surface-mount precision foil resistors available in five sizes
November 29, 2012 4:44 pm | Wilbrecht Ledco, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsWilbrecht LEDCO, Inc., announces that it is adding surface-mount precision foil resistors to its product line. Wilbrecht LEDCO is responding to the growing demand for surface-mount products by making models VSM and VSMP (Z-Foil) available to its customers. These resistors are available in five different sizes
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Ultracapacitors ideal for high-efficiency energy management systems
November 29, 2012 3:45 pm | Maxwell Technologies | Product Releases | CommentsMaxwell Technologies, Inc. announced that it is supplying ultracapacitors for a high-efficiency energy management system that powers multimedia entertainment, lighting and air ventilation systems in the Emirates Air Line, the UK’s first urban cable car, carrying passengers across London’s River Thames.
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Stacked MLC capacitor series accommodates a broad range of applications
November 16, 2012 11:45 am | Avx Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsAVX Corporation has expanded its range of surface mount switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitors to include the new SMM Series (switch mode max capacitance) stacked MLC capacitors, which incorporate the “High K” Super X7R dielectric. Featuring high dielectric constant (K), the capacitors provide
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DC-to-DC converters shrinks board space by 75 percent compared to competing solutions
November 13, 2012 10:28 am | Product Releases | CommentsAnalog Devices introduced the industry’s smallest isolated DC-to-DC converters. The ADuM5010, ADuM6010, ADuM521x and ADuM621x use ADI’s proprietary isoPower isolated DC-to-DC converter technology to deliver 150 mW of output power while using less board space than competing module-based solutions.
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Anti-corrosive passivated nichrome thin film chip resistors target high power, high humidity apps
November 8, 2012 10:14 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe RNCH is a high power version of Stackpole’s RNCS series of anti-corrosive passivated nichrome thin film chip resistors. This series offers the power rating of the RNCS0805 in the 0603 size and similar power upgrades for the 0805 and 1206
LISTED UNDER: Passive & Discrete Devices16-Bit 20Msps ADCs achieve 84dB SNR & 46 microvolt (RMS) input-referred noise
October 23, 2012 12:25 pm | 3M Electronics Solutions Division | Product Releases | CommentsLinear Technology Corporation introduces three low power 16-bit, 20Msps analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), the LTC2269, LTC2270 and LTC2271, offering the lowest input-referred noise and tight integral nonlinearity error (INL) for very high precision DC measurements.
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Fully regulated intermediate bus converters incorporate digital control to provide industry leading performance
October 17, 2012 10:51 am | Product Releases | CommentsCUI Inc has introduced a line of fully regulated intermediate bus dc-dc converters with advanced digital control from their Novum Advanced Power product line. The converters are CUI’s first product release based on the recently announced license agreement with Ericsson for their Advanced Bus Converter portfolio...
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SMT, 50-mA fuse presents low voltage loss and an exact opening time
October 2, 2012 10:55 am | Product Releases | CommentsSCHURTER is expanding its range of surface mount chip fuses with a 50-mA model in the USFF family. It sets itself apart from standard commercial products through, according to the company, a lower voltage loss and an exact opening time for sensitive electronic systems where
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Transverse coupled resonator filter touts desirable temperature performance
September 28, 2012 12:16 pm | Product Releases | CommentsAPI Technologies Corp. introduced a new transverse coupled resonator filter (TCRF). This new surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter is designed for narrowband intermediate frequency (IF) filtering such as in satellite transponders, directional finders and anti-jam modems. It is capable of
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