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Nova Semiconductor, a fabless company established in 2018, is rapidly emerging as a key player in battery optimization. The company’s core focus lies in revolutionizing the way rechargeable batteries are managed through its innovative battery management system (BMS) technology.
In an interview with Power Electronics News, Ahmad Ashrafzadeh, CEO of Nova Semiconductor, offered insights into this proprietary technology, highlighting its key factors and advantages over traditional BMSes.
The critical role of BMSes
A battery management system can be conceptualized as an intelligent electronic syst ..read more
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7h ago
The use of silicon carbide and gallium nitride to meet electric-vehicle design requirements has now become a standard in next-generation automotive design to promote sustainability. Aerodynamic lines or lighter materials are not enough to guarantee the efficiency of electric vehicles. To meet efficiency and power density requirements, power electronics designers must look toward new technologies.
Advanced wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials, especially GaN and SiC, represent an improvement over existing semiconductor technologies like MOSFETs and IGBTs. Basically, the bandgap correspon ..read more
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11h ago
The PCIM Europe, a prominent global expo and conference for power electronics, will once again serve as a focal point for the industry, presenting a wide range of innovations, trends, and advancements from 11 – 13 June 2024. The expo and conference are expected to establish new records with more than 600 exhibitors and over 500 presentations.
Attendees of the expo this year may anticipate a broader selection of products that cover the whole power electronics value chain. A record-breaking number of over 600 exhibitors will showcase their products in four exhibition rooms, an increase of one f ..read more
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11h ago
Sunmaxx PVT, a company that specializes in the design and production of photovoltaic-thermal solar modules (PVT), has recently inaugurated one of the largest manufacturing facilities for PVT modules in the world. The facility is situated in close proximity to Dresden, Germany. The current production plant has a capacity of 50 megawatts (MW), which is equivalent to manufacturing 120,000 photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) modules annually. The purpose of the factory is to offer shared motivations for the creation of local value, with the aim of promoting an environmentally friendly future and achieving ..read more
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11h ago
EPC Space has introduced a new 50 V, 6 A Rad Hard GaN Power Stage IC specifically developed for use in space-related activities. The EPC7011L7SH is a small Aluminum Nitride ceramic surface mount technology package that contains a single chip driver and an eGaN® FET half-bridge power stage IC.
EPC’s exclusive GaN IC technology is utilized for the implementation of integration. The monolithic chip incorporates an integrated circuit that includes input logic interface, level shifting, bootstrap charging, and gate drive buffer circuits. Additionally, it features eGaN output FETs arranged in a hal ..read more
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11h ago
LF Energy, the open source foundation dedicated to leveraging collaborative software and hardware innovations to expedite the energy transition, has declared the acceptance of four novel open source technical projects and three additional working groups into the foundation.
These efforts aim to enhance the energy industry by introducing new resources such as digital substations, preparing for adverse weather occurrences, and using advancements in data and AI technology. Prior to the Open Sustainability Policy Summit and Open EV Charging Summit, both of which LF Energy is organizing in collabo ..read more
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Around the world, governments have set themselves the goal of meeting their climate change commitments. To achieve this, they are driving the energy transition to electric vehicles through legislation and financial incentives. Technological research plays a key role in this regard. In fact, the total global market for EV and hybrid-vehicle batteries is expected to grow to almost $1.6 billion by 2030. At the same time, the rapid growth of this sector must be supported by optimizations in automotive design, which must be ready to face this epochal change.
The power of SiC in automotive applicat ..read more
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The rapid growth of electric vehicles has incentivized innovations in many key parts of the power delivery system, including the on-board charger (OBC) and off-board charger to charge the battery, inverters used to drive the electric motor, the battery technology and the battery management system (BMS). The BMS forms an essential module that ensures optimum and safe battery performance.
In this article, we will highlight a presentation delivered by Samuel Wong, vice president and general manager for BMS at Texas Instruments (TI), at the Automotive Tech Forum held in March 2024.
Key factors to ..read more
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1d ago
Advancements in energy storage technology have recently led to the introduction of large-scale batteries as a feasible substitute for conventional gas power plants. Developers worldwide are increasingly abandoning several gas-fired production projects due to the decreasing cost of large-scale batteries, which provide a reliable power supply by compensating for the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources.
Amidst the global pursuit for greener and more sustainable energy alternatives to address climate change, a pertinent query emerges: Could colossal batteries eventually supplant conve ..read more
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Europe’s Chips Joint Undertaking (JU) has given the green light to the project aiming to build the first of four different pilot lines in Europe contemplated by the Chips Act. The project, led by Italy, avails itself of the collaboration with other countries such as Poland, Finland, Sweden, Austria, France, and Germany. The facility to be built in Catania, Italy, will be a highly innovative pilot line devoted to the research and development of new wide bandgap (WBG) materials like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), key semiconductors for the high-growth Automotive, Industrial, a ..read more