Engineers have developed a new type of hybrid solar energy converter, which uses energy from the Sun to create both electricity and steam. The device reportedly has high efficiency and runs at low ...

Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have been testing out ways to convert heat into electrical power. A Stirling power converter developed by the Lanzhou Institute of Physics of China ...

The circuit in the diagram shows a DC-DC converter using Fairchild’s RC5037 switching regulator controller. It can, for example, generate 3.3V at 1A from a 5V supply. The RC5037 IC eliminates the need ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Over the past quarter century or so, businesses - banking, insurance firms, dispensers of online music, search engines, ...

Housed in a 3.0 x 2.5 x 0.6-in. aluminum case with integrated heat sink and four threaded mounting holes, the 70Q5.12SR quad-output dc/dc converter has a thermal impedance of 3.8°C/W and an operating ...

A Spanish-Italian research group has developed a solid-state thermal-to-electric energy converter based on hybrid thermionic-photovoltaics (TIPV) for different applications. It consists of a ...