Author: Josh Johnson
Wireless Power: Getting Down to Business
Upal Sengupta, Staff Applications Engineer
Texas Instruments
About a year ago, I wrote a post about resonance and how it relates to the wireless power systems we’ve been developing at TI to enable convenient charging of mobile devices. Since that time, the industry has made a lot of progress in bringing wireless power solutions to the next level. While many people may still consider wireless power an “exotic” or niche technology, there are already tens of millions of portable devices with wireless charging capability in the hands of end users. Read more about Wireless Power: Getting Down to Business …
Next-Generation Batteries: Problems and Solutions
Sam Jaffe
Navigant Research
It’s clear that today we live in a lithium ion world. That’s the chemistry that powers our phones, our computers, our power tools, our electric vehicles, and our grid energy storage systems. The only thing that it doesn’t do, yet, is start our cars (that’s still the domain of much cheaper lead-acid batteries). Navigant Research expects that the age of lithium ion (Li-ion) will continue for at least the next 10 years. Read more about Next-Generation Batteries: Problems and Solutions …
