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The impact of polymer capacitors on advancing GaN-based AC/DC converters

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AC/DC converter trends and GaN Different kinds of electronic devices employ AC/DC converters as instrument to transform commercial AC power into DC power. They are necessary since the majority of electrical loads operate on DC rather than AC...
- 23 Jul 2024
Small-scale, diversified but utterly useful: A new roadmap on the variety of Power Inductors

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Known as pioneers of metal composite power inductor technology, Panasonic Industry has undoubtedly made a name for itself - but the industries’ rapid developments and increased demands on the specs of passive components wouldn’t allow any...
- 10 Jul 2024
Resolving MLCC Problems by Switching to Conductive Polymer Capacitors

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MLCC problems - and their solution MLCCs (Multi-layered Ceramic Capacitors) are used in a wide variety of applications but have problems due to inherent characteristics of MLCCs. Some of these problems can be solved by adopting conductive polym...
- 16 May 2024
Are Electrolytic Capacitors still a core technology?

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Despite the emergence of alternative capacitor technologies like hybrids, electrolytic capacitors continue to stand out as the optimal choice across various applications. Their enhanced performance, extended lifespan, and cost-effectiveness solidif...
- 11 Dec 2023
PAN1770 BLE®︎ data throughput rate and metal enclosures: a short test on some facts – and one solution

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As developers and engineers, you are familiar with the challenges that arise and understand the power when metal enclosures or housings shield or disrupt a decent flow of BLE data throughput. Join us for the following video on a short investigative j...
- 11 Dec 2023
Passive components tailored to Solar Inverters

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As the world moves towards making more eco-friendly responsible choices, the demand for sustainable and renewable energy has driven consistently high growth in the solar inverter market. A solar inverter (also called a photovoltaic or PV inverter) co...
- 17 Aug 2023
Ready for your ideas – and available on short lead times: Panasonic Industry’s range of BLE modules

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Despite the tense situation on the semiconductor markets for the past two years, Panasonic Industry has invested heavily in stocks - and now reports that, for instance, the Bluetooth® Low Energy modules from the PAN1780 family are available in ex...
- 16 Jan 2023
Panasonic Industry's GraphiteTIM: Optimizing the thermal path for your power module

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Everyone knows that heat is a system killer. A general rule of thumb is that the life-time of a device decreases by 50 percent each time when the temperature rises an additional 10 degrees Celsius. To look at it from another angle, the MTBF (meanti...
- 21 Dec 2022
State-of-the-art Smart NIC design: Why Panasonic Industry’s Polymer capacitors are a perfect choice

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Communications service providers are contributing intensely to large and hyper-scale data centres to deliver data processing, content, and communications services. The applications delivering these services must have access to high-speed storage and ...
- 14 Dec 2022
Polymer Capacitors – a superior alternative for MLCCs in every regard?

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It is not only since the widespread introduction of 5G... ...that the demand for Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitors (MLCCs) is growing: Applications in the field of consumer electronics, data processing, telecommunications and many others have not ...
- 8 Apr 2022
Large current SMD Power Inductor for automotive applications - ETQP8M***J** & ETQPAM***JFW

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The increasing requirement of performance of automotive devices leads to higher electric current flowing trough electric circuits. Also the number of ECUs mounted on vehicles is gradually increasing. As space inside vehicles is limited, ECU boards mu...
- 18 Mar 2022
180°C resistance for Panasonic automotive power inductors

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180°C specified – What does it really mean? Panasonic Power Inductors are specifically designed for harsh environmental conditions in engine, transmission, braking systems and powertrain applications. The target was from the beginning...
- 1 Mar 2022
Compact, robust, reliable: Panasonic Industry's power inductors - the coil of choice for demanding automotive applications?

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When Panasonic started the development of the first metal composite power inductor nearly two decades ago, the key target was to design a product that would be able to withstand severe conditions and provide the highest reliability for automotive...
- 25 Nov 2021
Panasonic Industry’s new ESP32-S2 based PAN9520 Wi-Fi module: a step by step introduction for easy videostreaming

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Admittedly, Wi-Fi technology is not the latest thing – but it’s still state of the art when it comes to processing higher data rates, especially in personal area networks.Now, Panasonic Industry is breaking new ground with its new PAN9520 wireless mo...
- 3 Nov 2021
It's all about patterns: Insights on stability and resistor laser trimming

moritzcehak

Far more than constructive or material differences, it is the principle – or more specifically: the pattern – of laser trimming that makes the difference for a SMD chip resistor’s reliability and performance. Let us investigate, why:Resistors - seemi...
- 3 Nov 2021
Some facts on Passives in Smart Metering applications

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The relevance of smart metering has increased globally during the last couple of years for different applications such as water, gas and electricity – on both the supplier and the consumer side. Additionally, the global shipment of smart meters...
- 18 Oct 2021
The evolution of "small": New video on reliable downsizing with chip resistors

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Undoubtedly, downsizing is a trend in the electronics industry - watch this latest and comprehensive short video and learn what Panasonic Industry has to offer for resistor downsizing - while ensuring the highest power range in smallest case sizes an...
- 1 Jul 2021
Avoiding fatal contact failures in electronic components: a whitepaper on red phosphorous flame retardants

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In plastic materials that are flame retardant with red phosphorous, outgassing can occur. This has an impact on electronic components – in relays, for example, it can cause increased contact resistance, and some corrosion phenomena of components...
- 18 Jun 2021
Miniaturized, but great: Panasonic Stacked Metallized Chip Type Film Capacitors - high performance in a small housing

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Did you know that not all film capacitors are big fellows with two or four legs as you would commonly guess? And also, that besides the well-known PP and PET dielectric there are film capacitors using PPS or PEN as a dielectric material? "T...
- 18 Jun 2021
Many reasons why Panasonic Industry wide terminal resistors suit the downsizing of your applications

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A higher level of power in smaller parts – this is undoubtedly the overriding direction where the electronic component market is currently heading. That also applies for resistors, being the smallest and most accessible components in any elect...
- 18 Jun 2021
Technical benefits and cost efficiency for PCB: Panasonic Industry Polymer Capacitors as an alternative to tantalum capacitors

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Pure tantalum capacitors – also in modern electronics design they stand for extremely high capacitance values for any given volume. But as beneficial as their constructive principle appears - it also reveals pitfalls that make engineers investigate s...
- 4 May 2021
Meeting the needs of tomorrow's mobility: Panasonic Industry Automotive Grade Metallized PP Film Capacitors

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Doubtlessly, there is a shift towards an entirely new and more environmental-friendly perception of individual mobility. Apparently, we are talking of electric vehicles and the corresponding charging infrastructure. The goals are set – more and more ...
- 22 Apr 2021
Panasonic Industry HE-V relay series: Size- and cost-efficient High Voltage switching from experimental scratch

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The growing demand, popularity and hence markets in the field of renewable energy, such as solar power plants and battery storage systems evoke an ever stronger interest in high voltage and high current switching devices that meet the contemporary re...
- 25 Mar 2021
Metallized PP Film Capacitors - a closer look on Panasonic Industry's Fuse Function technology

moritzcehak

When the talk is about a device’s overall reliability, we know that is first and foremost a question of the components it is consisting of. Next to the ability to withstand rough operational conditions such as vibrations and shocks, it is high voltag...
- 19 Feb 2021
Metal composite inductors - do they make ferrite inductors an anachronism for good?

moritzcehak

The have been the coil of choice for generations of engineers - despite a number of immanent weak spots: Ferrite inductors. With the rise of metal composite inductors, however, there has finally been a leap in overcoming the disadvantages of this 20t...
- 11 Feb 2021