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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced component solutions, today announced its second generation of D-series chip-on-board (COB) LED packages. The second generation features the industry’s highest light efficacy in COB lineups and is suitable for directional lighting applications such as multifaceted reflector (MR) bulbs, parabolic aluminized reflector (PAR) lamps, spotlights, downlights and high bay lights. This new...

Almost every railway station in India will soon be fed with solar power if the plans announced in India’s latest union budget are implemented. The Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the 7,000 railway stations across the country will be fed with solar power as per the Indian Railways mission to implement 1,000 megawatts of solar power capacity. The...

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than our sun. As of Feb. 21, NASA has discovered and confirmed 3,440 exoplanets. The briefing participants are Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington; Michael Gillon, astronomer...

New York state-supported solar power increased by almost 800 percent from December 2011 to December 2016, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Tuesday, with almost $1.5 billion leveraged in private investment. The state saw 83.06 megawatts of solar installed through 2011, with the total installed through 2016 hitting 743.65 megawatts, an increase of 795 percent. "New York is a national leader...

Don Bosco Organisation, which runs five schools and one college in Mumbai, plans to move towards a zero energy setup -- reducing the use of coal for electricity and increasing the consumption of solar energy by 60%. Mumbai receives 300 days of sunlight a year, making it easily possible to move away from the usual carbon-emitting process of burning coal...

SOLIDWORKS World 2017 — Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, today unveiled the new professional, versatile and fast FDM-based F123 Series (F170, F270 and F370) for smarter prototyping, designed to make professional rapid prototyping more productive for design workgroups. The Stratasys F123 Series empowers virtually any user, regardless of 3D printing experience, to build durable...

But solar roof-top plants accounts for just 57MW — a far cry from the 2,400MW target for 2022 Bengaluru: Barely 2% of the ambitious five-year target for roof-top solar power generation has been achieved; prompting the State government to tweak the rules to encourage more participation. In an event organised by the industrial association ASSOCHAM on Tuesday, P. Ravikumar, Additional Chief...

Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, announced today an expanded inventory now offering DEUTSCH industrial environmentally sealed electrical connectors from TE Connectivity (TE), a global leader in connectivity and sensors. The heavy-duty connectors are designed to withstand dirt, moisture, salt spray and rough terrain. TE’s DEUTSCH connectors are constructed of rugged thermoplastic or durable aluminum and feature silicone seals...

“All-in-one Solution for Fast, High Sensitivity, Low Jitter Evaluation of Optical Modules” Solution for Evaluating and Cutting Production Costs of 100-Gbit/s Multi-channel Optical Modules Anritsu Corporation (President Hirokazu Takahashi) introduced the company’s new BERTWave MP2110A series optimized for manufacturing inspection of 100-Gbit/s multi-channel optical modules. The newly added BERTWave MP2110A is an all-in-one instrument targeted at simultaneous BER measurements*1 and Eye...

PIC16F15386family with CIPs uses MPLAB Code Configurator for quick development — The PIC16F15386 family, themost powerful launching point into the 8-bit PIC microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, is now available from Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analogand Flash-IP solutions. In addition to our current Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs), this family includes a high accuracy 32MHz internal oscillator and...