That means electrical storage, typically in an electrochemical battery, but capacitors also store and discharge electricity.
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Our mobile phones, X-boxes, TVs and all the rest all use such tantalum capacitors.
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To desalinate salt water, the technology passes it between two oppositely charged super capacitors, which attract charged ions.
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Coltan is the shortened name of the ore, columbo-tantalite, from which the tantalum to make capacitors is extracted.
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For silicon CMOS technology, the limit his higher, since reliable capacitors cannot be built smaller than the 10-15nm range.
Tantalum itself is used to make the capacitors which go into electronic equipment.
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This, they hope, will push capacitors to 50% of a battery's storage capacity.
Traditionally, grid operators used banks of capacitors, which store and release energy, to act as shock absorbers for the grid.
Analysts expect the problem to affect a number of gadgets that run on chips, capacitors or processors or incorporate sophisticated displays.
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This agreement clears the way for foreign manufacturers of capacitors and resistors to have completely duty-free access to the U.S. market.
But the electricity generated is stored in a battery or a bank of capacitors for later use by the vehicle itself.
And high-tech ceramics are used to make everything from electronic components (capacitors and resistors) to the heat shield on the space shuttle.
Depending on how an engineer arranges and connects the capacitors, resistors and transistors, an infinite number of electrical circuits can be created.
We're talking "metal-oxide film resistors" and "non-polarized electrolysis electric audio capacitors, " here.
By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.
When the capacitors are discharged, electrons flow through the gas, knocking the electrons away from the atomic nuclei and thus transforming it into a plasma.
In addition, Edifier engineers have freed up valuable internal space within Spinnaker by eliminating a large passive crossover printed circuit board, with coils, capacitors and resistors.
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Its polymer technology also carries the potential for other application markets, including water desalination, ultra-capacitors and energy generation, chemical and biohazard resistant fabrics, and immersion coatings.
And because the industrial base for manufacturing the transformers and capacitors used in delivering electricity is relatively small, it could take months, maybe years, to fully restore service.
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Traditional inverters gather power from all or most of the panels in an installation and use transformers, capacitors and switches to change it from direct current to alternating current.
Tantalum is an ingredient of the best electronic capacitors.
We've seen hybrid batteries, hairy capacitors, and ultracapacitors, but considering how much we depend on batteries, we're not ones to turn up our noses at yet another new battery development.
Helyar expects a 10%-15% shortage of 300mm wafers in the second quarter, with a more than 20% shortfall in BT-based substrates, with additional shortages of hard-drives, oscillators, multi-layer ceramic capacitors and other parts.
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But when I got home, I opened up the remote and saw all those sturdy diodes, capacitors, and transistors with their mysterious colored bands, combinations of which once spoke a subtle language to engineers long ago retired or dead.
At that point they'll reduce the need for rooms full of powder charges and the associated dangers that come along with explosive shells, but will instead need to make way for what looks to be a warehouse full of capacitors.
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