Featured Blogs
Powering the Future: How High-Voltage MLCCs Drive Efficiency in Modern Electronics
Verena Özdemir, Product Engineer at Murata Manufacturing | 11-12-2025Power electronics is undergoing a profound transformation. Devices are now expected to operate faster, become smaller, and achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency.
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How LoRa Technology is Revolutionizing Livestock Monitoring and Enabling Smarter Farming Practices
Suman THAPA, Senior Product Engineer at Murata Manufacturing | 09-12-2025In the rapidly evolving and expanding world of the Internet of Things (IoT), LoRa technology has emerged as a transformative force for industries that require long-range, low-power, and cost-effective connectivity.
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Revolutionizing Smart Environments: New Surface-Mount PIR Sensor Solves Design Challenges
T. Kitagawa, Field Application Engineering, Functional Device Div. | 29-10-2025As our living and working spaces become increasingly interconnected, the demand for intelligent, secure, and energy-efficient designs has never been higher.
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Accelerate IoT Development with Pre-certified, dual-mode, Multiband LoRaWAN module
Suman THAPA, Senior Product Engineer at Murata Manufacturing | 21-10-2025The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to push the boundaries of connectivity and how we interact with devices, bringing about a new era of smart technology.
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Navigating the Future: Murata’ Type 1WL Module's Role in Advanced Indoor and Outdoor Geolocation
Suman THAPA, Senior Product Engineer at Murata Manufacturing | 14-04-2025The once clear-cut division between outdoor and indoor tracking technologies is blurring as the demand for devices capable of seamless transition between environments grows.
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The Road to Sustainable Mobility: Charging Ahead with Electrification and Vehicle Safety
Komei Takura, Head of Automotive OEM, Murata Europe | 11-10-2024The automotive industry is at a pivotal juncture, with the global drive for environmental sustainability steering the shift from internal combustion engines (ICEs) to electric vehicles (EVs).
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Driving Automotive Innovation with Cutting Edge Automotive Electronic Components
Shingo Uda, Manager Field Application Engineering | 13-06-2025For over 100 years passenger cars have existed as a standalone entity, controlled by the driver, with limited electronic assistance.
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Building Reliable Wireless Vehicle Communication to Unlock the Future of Transportation
Shingo Uda, Manager Field Application Engineering | 03-05-2024The integration of reliable wireless communication systems is essential for next-generation vehicles. The convergence of automotive technology and digital connectivity signals the start of a revolutionary era in transportation, offering improved safety, higher user satisfaction, and unmatched automation.
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Vehicle Autonomy and the Changing Landscape Between Automotive OEMs and Component Manufacturers
Prateek Gogte, Product Engineer |22-12-2023
At this moment, the automotive industry is experiencing two substantial revolutions that are completely redefining the very concept of a vehicle.
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How RFID Can Help the Fashion Industry Win the War Against Counterfeit Goods
Antonio Rizzi, VP of Murata ID Solutions | 12-11-2023Fashion lovers know it costs to be stylish, which is why so many counterfeit operations have emerged to allow people to enjoy the cachet of top brands without paying top-brand prices.
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How small capacitors are creating a sizeable increase in EV performance
Moaz ElGhazali, Product Engineer | 14-06-2023Hybrid and battery-powered electric vehicles (EV) are revolutionizing the automotive industry, but the combined effort of moving away from internal combustion engines and the pace of EV development are creating some serious headaches.
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Understanding the Challenges Faced when Developing Capacitors and How they Affect Your Next Design
Christian Merkel, Product Manager | 19-05-2023
Capacitors are one of the fundamental passive electronic components and on the surface seem incredibly simple. However, the challenges of capacitor design and their implementation could not be more complex.
Making the IoT a reality, now that the hype is past
Shohei Kawanaka, Product Manager, Europe, Connectivity Module | 16-02-2023Where are all the Things that we were promised would be linked to make an Internet of Things (IoT)? A decade ago, very senior telecoms executives were insisting that, by now, tens of billions of Things would be connected to the Internet to create widely distributed networks of sensors.
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Protecting our supply chain from conflict-affected minerals
Erika Hirata, Planning & Administration Dept. |05-12-2022
Global companies often rely upon extremely long supply chains that draw in raw and partly finished goods from all over the world.
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Protecting local environments through sustainable resource use
Keitaro Suzuki, Sustainability Dept. & Maï Fujiwara, Climate Action Div. | 11-11-2022Growing concern about climate change, and increasing commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, has made this coupling between local action and global impact ever more explicit.
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Shift to renewable energy puts Murata ahead of the curve
Nobuhiko IIDA, Corporate Communications Dept. | 03-08-2022Responding to the climate emergency has always seemed like a double-edged sword for business. Settled science tells us that we must act now to avert the disaster of further global warming.
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Murata IoT solution boosts logistics company’s efficiency and sustainability
Tsuyoshi Yamashita, IoT Solution, Product Manager | 03-10-2022The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is so broad that successful developers need to collaborate with customers to adapt IoT designs to each target market.
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Shedding light on effectively tracking and tracing heritage arts assets
Grethe Bonde, Marketing Specialist, Murata ID Solutions | 15-09-2022Opera for many people is the greatest of art forms: singing, orchestral music, drama, acting, dance and visual arts are brought together in one complete spectacle.
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Towards smarter waste management
Tsuyoshi Yamashita, IoT Solution, Product Manager | 19-05-2022Effective waste management is a crucial contributor to the quality of life in our cities however managing the collections can present municipalities with significant logistical challenges.
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Tackling food shortages with data-driven farming
Juli Ban, Product Manager, Function Devices | 07-07-2022With the global population expected to hit nearly ten billion by 2050 , the agricultural industry is set to see unprecedented pressure with almost two billion more mouths to feed.
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Understanding the Essentials of DC-DC Conversion
Ann-Marie Bayliss, Product Manager Murata | 21-06-2022It is acknowledged that DC-DC conversion is fundamental to modern electronic system design. Engineers must therefore be aware of all the aspects that define it - in relation to efficiency, safe operation, cost-effectiveness, etc.
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Murata on Mars: Exploring the red planet with Ingenuity
Heino Härkönen, Product Engineer Murata | 20-04-2022Space might be the final frontier, but thanks to advances in technology over the past decades, humanity is taking significant steps in exploring it.
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Enabling the electric vehicle revolution
Rina Fujiwara, Product Engineer Murata |15-03-2022
Engineering advances over the past decade have seen vehicle electrification claim its place as an essential building block for a sustainable future.
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15 minutes with Toshio Nakamoto, President for Murata Electronics Europe
Toshio Nakamoto, CEO of Murata Electronics Europe | 16-12-2021Having taken over the role of President for Murata Electronics Europe in 2020, Toshio Nakamoto has had an interesting year, marked by the industry struggling to accommodate the challenges of Covid-19.
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Combatting COVID-19 through ozone generation
Michio Miyazaki, Product Manager | 30-08-2021It seemed as if the COVID-19 pandemic was all we talked about in 2020 and 2021 and indeed, it still dominates our lives and the media in 2021. SARS-CoV-2 is the respiratory virus that causes people to contract COVID-19.
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The automotive trends shaping the future
Rüdiger Scheel, Vice President sales | 28-06-2021Electric, autonomous, shared, connected, and yearly updated (EASCY), some of the features that industry analysts associate with the car of the future. While some of these trends are already evident today, others will take significantly longer to cement their place on our roads.
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Leveraging piezoelectrics to enable the facemasks of the future
Joe Murakami, senior product manager | 28-05-2021During a turbulent year marked by the global pandemic, many countries have seen facemasks become mandatory in public spaces. Offering a varying degree of protection, the range of masks available continues to grow while the industry strives to optimize their performance.
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Revolutionising the pharmaceutical supply chain
Grethe Bonde, Murata ID-Solutions | 30-04-2021Bayer S.p.A. is an Italian division of Bayer AG, the global pharmaceutical company. It serves more than 17.000 customers in Italy and relies on an extensive supply chain of logistics and transport partners.
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How startups can collaborate and innovate with Murata
Mitch Nozaki, business innovation | 01-04-2021As part of Murata’s commitment to make the world a better place through innovation, we have launched our Open Innovation website to engage with startups and develop solutions together.
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