Traditionally, electrical engineers have to choose: high-power switches that are unreliable and slow, or high-speed, high-precision switches that can’t handle that much power. Menlo Microsystems’ ...

Menlo Micro has claimed the industry’s highest-power MEMS switch with the introduction of the MM9200 with kilowatt-power handling. Based on the company’s Ideal Switch technology, the MM9200 is the ...

In turning a circuit on or off, the average precision snap-acting switch changes its resistance by about 13 orders of magnitude in a couple of milliseconds, when its plunger moves about .001 inch.

Melexis is aiming at replacing reed switches in automotive door door handles, sun visors, infotainment buttons and brake lights with a micro-power Hall effect switch. “For modern vehicles, accurate ...