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• Why LED replacement bulbs for incandescents (may) need isolation
• Ceramic caps promise long lifetimes for smaller LED lights
• More on The Internet of Things: It may appeal to you if you’re a visionary or a systems company
• HP announces sensors for its “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE)
• Power supplies for new LED applications fit in higher-margin markets
• Yes, you can trademark a color
• Pressure film gives snapshot of manufacturing process
• 2010 “Designing with LEDs” Workshop: Call for Papers
• Here’s a list of micro-inverter companies (and some proposed new installations)
• Solar micro-inverter addresses capacitor reliability issues

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• John Lazzaro on Why LED replacement bulbs for incandescents (may) need isolation
• wheyp.roteinsideeffects on Here’s a list of micro-inverter companies (and some proposed new installations)
• wheyp.roteinsideeffects on Here’s a list of micro-inverter companies (and some proposed new installations)
• Al Grasso on Why LED replacement bulbs for incandescents (may) need isolation
• Snurhoons on Researchers develop OLEDs with color temp spectrum of sunlight

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Power Management Articles

• What every designer should know about magnetics in switch-mode power supplies
• China’s proposed ban of rare-earth metals would affect hybrid cars, CFLs
• Secondary-side synchronous rectification boosts resonant converter efficiency
• EDN on Power Technology: Industry standards lead push toward energy-efficient computing
• New power-supply efficiency numbers herald a new era in power management
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