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Revolutionary Ferrite-Magnet Fault Current Limiter Graduates from Testing and Heads to Market; Eriez Magnetics Takes Major Position in the Developer, FaultCurrent Ltd in UK

November 6, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Revolutionary Ferrite-Magnet Fault Current Limiter Graduates from Testing and Heads to Market; Eriez Magnetics Takes Major Position in the Developer, FaultCurrent Ltd in UK

FaultCurrent Limited, a UK-based developer of passive magnetic fault current limiters, is reporting successful results from a recent round of independent tests of its next generation fault current limiter. With 25 tons of magnetic ferrite ceramic tiles at the core of its novel design, it’s a beast. It […]

Materials/Manufacturing

THEVA High-Temperature Superconductor Wire Making Breakthroughs in Windpower Turbines and Electrical Transmission Applications

November 6, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on THEVA High-Temperature Superconductor Wire Making Breakthroughs in Windpower Turbines and Electrical Transmission Applications

THEVA, a German developer of high-temperature superconducting wire – notably which is very pricey compared to copper wire but has extraordinary magnetic properties, is making important progress in demonstrating the effectiveness of its wire for […]

Electromagnetics

Magnetically Shielded Ferrite Inductors from TT Electronics for Industrial and Telecom Markets

October 28, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Magnetically Shielded Ferrite Inductors from TT Electronics for Industrial and Telecom Markets

TT Electronics introduces two new ferrite-based magnetically shielded power inductors for industrial and telecom applications requiring high frequency power conversion and robust EMI filtering especially those using fast switching gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors.  Both are surface mount device (SMD) inductors […]

Electromagnetics

Tech Tips: Using Precision Anistropic Magnetoresistive Current Sensing to Optimize System Performance

October 24, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Tech Tips: Using Precision Anistropic Magnetoresistive Current Sensing to Optimize System Performance

By Khagendra Thapa, Aceinna  There is a tremendous amount of pressure on the embedded electronics community for higher efficiencies and better system performance. This is due to multiple factors from thermal management issues, to increased power densities, to […]