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Ford’s Battery Pivot Enters the Grid

Ford’s Battery Pivot Enters the Grid

Ford is moving from EVs into the fast-growing world of grid-scale energy storage.


News Jun 01, 2026 by Shannon Cuthrell
Designing Power Supplies for Industrial Functional Safety—Part 2: Creating a Safe Power Design

Designing Power Supplies for Industrial Functional Safety—Part 2: Creating a Safe Power Design

While Part 1 of this series showed what the IEC 61508 requires from power supplies to achieve functional safety, Part 2 provides insights into…


Toshiba Intros 3-Phase Modular UPS Series for Edge Data Centers

Toshiba Intros 3-Phase Modular UPS Series for Edge Data Centers

The 40 kW to 200 kW chassis hits 96.5% efficiency with hot-swappable power modules and IIoT-based diagnostics.


new products May 28, 2026 by Luke James
Isolated DC-DC Power Supplies: Module or Discrete Design?

Isolated DC-DC Power Supplies: Module or Discrete Design?

When is a fully integrated module the better option, and when does a discrete design offer the greater advantage? This story discusses the major…


Technical Articles May 27, 2026 by RECOM
How To Bring Ultra Precise Current Measurement to All Use Cases—Not Just DC

How To Bring Ultra Precise Current Measurement to All Use Cases—Not Just DC

What are the challenges in power measurement and efficiency calculation? DCCT current transducers are hundreds of times more accurate than standard…


Reverse Recovery Charge Is Not a Constant

Reverse Recovery Charge Is Not a Constant

Reverse recovery charge, QRR, is one of those parameters most power engineers know well. It appears prominently in MOSFET datasheets, it finds its…


800 V SiC Power Module With Integrated Current Measurement

800 V SiC Power Module With Integrated Current Measurement

Take an integrated PCB-based power module and combine it with coreless current sensing. This story describes how it can deliver a compact,…


An Enhanced TO-247 Package Significantly Lowers SiC MOSFET Temperature

An Enhanced TO-247 Package Significantly Lowers SiC MOSFET Temperature

ISOMOS from Analog Power Conversion, LLC, (APC-E)/Luminus [1] improves on the thermal performance of the popular TO-247 package used in many…


GaN Motor Drive Evaluation Boards: EPC9186HC2/HC3 and EPC91202

GaN Motor Drive Evaluation Boards: EPC9186HC2/HC3 and EPC91202

Engineers need practical tools for evaluating GaN motor inverter architectures. The boards described in this article, EPC9186HC2/HC3 and EPC91202,…


Solution-based Manufacturing Platform for Advanced WBG Technologies

Solution-based Manufacturing Platform for Advanced WBG Technologies

Learn how Sanan offers a solution-based, vertically integrated manufacturing platform for advanced SiC/GaN WBG technologies, enabling faster…


Modern AC Electric System Blackouts Hypothesis

Modern AC Electric System Blackouts Hypothesis

Growing renewable power sources—PV, WECS, EV charging—are changing the electric power system. This article investigates recent Southern…


Advancing Power Efficiency With SiC Merged-Pin Schottky (MPS) Diodes

Advancing Power Efficiency With SiC Merged-Pin Schottky (MPS) Diodes

By combining Schottky and PiN diode structures in a single, monolithic device, SiC MPS diodes overcome the historical trade-offs between low…


Formic Acid Soldering: Enabling the Next Generation of Power Devices—Part 2

Formic Acid Soldering: Enabling the Next Generation of Power Devices—Part 2

In part 2, we focus on application considerations and take a deeper look at case studies for prevailing solder material alternatives, including…


Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Benefits of Lead-Free Soldering

Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Benefits of Lead-Free Soldering

Learn how lead-free soldering offers a sustainable, energy-efficient solution for power module assembly. It achieves up to 55% energy savings and…


Meeting Compact Inverter Design Demand With Small Size While Maintaining Insulation Distance

Meeting Compact Inverter Design Demand With Small Size While Maintaining Insulation Distance

In recent years, power density of a power inverter stages are increasing by providing low power losses as well as compact size so that the demand…


Inside the Silicon Carbide JFET: Specs, Stability, and the New Performance Frontier

Inside the Silicon Carbide JFET: Specs, Stability, and the New Performance Frontier

Learn how SiC JFETs beat MOSFETs for next-gen power. They offer ultralow loss, superior stability, and rugged avalanche protection—critical for…


IGCT Platform for up to 8.5 kV and Advanced Turn-Off Current Capability

IGCT Platform for up to 8.5 kV and Advanced Turn-Off Current Capability

Learn how Hitachi Energy's IGCT platform scales to 8.5 kV. It provides high turn-off capability and supports cost-efficient system designs for…


AI Datacenter Grid-to-Core Power Architecture

AI Datacenter Grid-to-Core Power Architecture

Surging AI power needs dictate a new datacenter power architecture: shifting to 800 V DC distribution, using "SideCar" racks, and…


GaN-Based Synchronous CCM PFC for Hydraulic Pump Power Supply Applications

GaN-Based Synchronous CCM PFC for Hydraulic Pump Power Supply Applications

This article details a GaN-based synchronous CCM-PFC design for hydraulic pump power supplies. It achieves 98.5% peak efficiency at 300W and…


Polycrystalline-SiC-Based Substrate Boosts Performance of SiC Power Devices

Polycrystalline-SiC-Based Substrate Boosts Performance of SiC Power Devices

Learn how SmartSiC technology using Smart Cut overcomes standard Silicon Carbide limitations, reducing CO2 emissions, boosting device efficiency…