Electronics Weekly Electronics Design & Components Tech News
The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…
Caroline Hayes, editor
Professor Baliga rightly describes IGBT as hidden technology but vital for the last 40 years – 2024 Millennium Technology Prize for IGBT pioneer (electronicsweekly.com)
David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was Rapidus, Japan’s attempt to catch up in process technology, announcing it had a $7bn funding gap in its finances.
Steve Bush, technology editor
Flow batteries are an intriguing technology for energy storage because they decouple energy and power capability – with the former proportional to the size of its storage tanks and the latter to the size of the reaction vessel. Mostly, there are metal ions involved – flow battery folks love vanadium. Now researchers at the Chinese Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have produced air-stable compounds for an all-organic aqueous flow battery. Coincidentally Dalian has a huge (70kW) vanadium-based flow battery.
Alun Williams, web editor
Norway’s Andøya Spaceport is closing in on the first European satellite launch. It has officially received its Launch Site Operator licence – from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries – less than one year after its opening.
