The motivation to achieve greater energy efficiency is driven primarily by environmental problems such as global warming caused by burning fossil fuels, the rising price of crude oil and natural gas, ...

SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has published research on an ultraviolet-wavelength-driven solar spectral converter that can be placed on top of photovoltaic cells to boost ...

Hawaii-based Wavr LLC is developing a wave energy converter that is designed to be scaled up and integrated with other renewable energy technologies. The startup plans to sell a version integrating ...

Enabling solar-cell and micro-fuel-cell operation in portable electronics, the TPS61200 step-up converter supports voltages of 0.3 to 5.5 V during normal operation, and continues to manage power down ...

Promising to recover lost power due to solar-panel variables, the SPV1020 dc/dc boost converter is reportedly the industry’s first to combine power-optimization and power-conversion functions for ...

Enabling portable products to draw power from solar and micro-fuel cells, the TPS61200 step-up converter with an integrated 1.5A switch operates with input voltages below 0.3V. The device supports ...