Category: Power, Energy, Lighting
Power, Energy, Lighting
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Porous Silicon and Triboelectricity
Last December’s IEDM conference included energy harvesting as a topic; a couple of papers caught my attention. You could almost think of one of them…
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Wireless Power: Making Actual Product
Things have been a bit quiet on the wireless power front, but occasionally I’ll become aware of a new player and will dig in to…
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PowerByProxi Eval Kits
A while back, we took a look at a couple of new resonant wireless charging approaches, including PowerByProxi. Their charging pad consists of multiple coils,…
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A Paper Battery… Not
Today’s note comes from the Department of Not What It Sounds Like. It’s about a company called Paper Battery, which doesn’t make batteries, and, what…
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Wireless Power Progress: Efficiency and Distance
We met PowerByProxi recently when discussing wireless battery charging options. Well, they’ve recently announced what they claim to be a couple of milestones both in…
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Wireless Power and Heating
We covered wireless power before, and one of the points of differentiation was that of inadvertent heating of nearby items. With systems using the lower…
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Who Uses Power-Over-Ethernet?
Maxim recently released a reference board (called Pasadena) that implements power-over-Ethernet (PoE). As we were discussing it, I inquired about who is really using PoE.…
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A Tale of Two Networks
I was talking to Atmel the other day – they had announced the release of their ATPL230 power line communication (PLC) chip, which was filling…
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Intersil Re-emerges
When you’re musing over Silicon Valley comings and goings over a beer, it’s not unreasonable to hear the question, “Whatever happened to [place company name…
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Wireless and LED Power Combined
From where we sit in the electronics world, you can sometimes be lulled into thinking we see all that goes on around us. And then…