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Small Power IPMs for High Integration Demand

Small Power IPMs for High Integration Demand

SmartDriver Provides Highest Flexibility for Power Stages in Variable Speed Drives

SmartDriver Provides Highest Flexibility for Power Stages in Variable Speed Drives

The continuing trend towards more efficient energy consumption in motor drives has led to a wide offering of devices for the power stage of…


Extending the Supply Voltage of a 600V Input Isolated Flyback Controller to 800V or Higher

Extending the Supply Voltage of a 600V Input Isolated Flyback Controller to 800V or Higher

This article highlights Analog Devices LT8316 that is a micropower, high voltage flyback controller that does not require complicated…


What is an Open-Circuited P-N Junction?

What is an Open-Circuited P-N Junction?

In this “semiconductor basics” series, we’ll learn about the properties of the P-N junction with no external power applied.


Reliability Challenges of Automotive-grade Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs

Reliability Challenges of Automotive-grade Silicon Carbide Power MOSFETs

In this article, a discussion is given about testing and related results of Silicon-carbide power MOSFETs for automotive applications. It reports…


Testing Cascode Gallium Nitride FETs

Testing Cascode Gallium Nitride FETs

One popular GaN device type is the Cascode GaN FET, which provides even more difficult challenges with its oscillation-prone device behavior. In…


Fabricating Different Types of Photovoltaic Cells

Fabricating Different Types of Photovoltaic Cells

The manufacture of crystalline silicon modules involves fabricating silicon wafers, transforming the wafers into cells, and assembling cells into…


How Silicon Carbide can Improve Switched Power Converter Designs

How Silicon Carbide can Improve Switched Power Converter Designs

When it comes to designing power converters, wide bandgap (WBG) technologies such as silicon carbide (SiC) are now a realistic option during…


Self-Powered Modules for Measurement and Control in Medium Voltage Power Electronics

Self-Powered Modules for Measurement and Control in Medium Voltage Power Electronics

Future Medium Voltage Power Electronics solutions for measurement and control require a new approach that increases simplicity, reliability and…


Understanding Atomic Energy Levels in Solid-state Electronic Devices

Understanding Atomic Energy Levels in Solid-state Electronic Devices

Learn about the shell structure of atomic energy levels.


How Does Flyback Synchronous Rectification Affect EMI?

How Does Flyback Synchronous Rectification Affect EMI?

This article highlights Monolithic Power Systems flyback adapter design with synchronous rectification (SR) as different from conventional set-ups…


How SiC MOSFETS are Made and How They Work Best

How SiC MOSFETS are Made and How They Work Best

This article highlights Avnet Silica devices featuring STSiC Power components for SiC information.


Minimizing Thermo-Mechanical Stress in Chipscale eGaN Devices

Minimizing Thermo-Mechanical Stress in Chipscale eGaN Devices

This article highlights EPC EPC2001C and EPC2053 temperature cycling results.


Dual Component 700A Thyristor Modules with Minimized Static and Heat Losses

Dual Component 700A Thyristor Modules with Minimized Static and Heat Losses

This article highlighs Proton Electrotex dual-component A2-type power thyristor module with a baseplate width of 60 mm rated for a voltage of 1800…


Single-Point and Multi-Point Signal Grounding

Single-Point and Multi-Point Signal Grounding

A grounding arrangement must be designed and implemented adequately for the electronic equipment’s proper performance


Light as an Electrical Energy Source

Light as an Electrical Energy Source

In this article, the second in our series, we’ll discuss phenomena, such as photoelectric effect and photoconductive effect, that can be used to…


The Demand for Seamless Characterization, Simulation and Development of Power Semiconductors

The Demand for Seamless Characterization, Simulation and Development of Power Semiconductors

This article highlights publicly-funded project MessLeha addresses this issue by defining a machine-readable data sheet to support the setup of…


Utilizing GaN with High-Performance Gate Driving

Utilizing GaN with High-Performance Gate Driving

This article highlights MinDCet GaN power stages that requires implementing an optimized gate-driver for GaN transistors.


Understanding Thermal Management of Chip-Scale GaN Devices

Understanding Thermal Management of Chip-Scale GaN Devices

This article discusses the challenges that thermal management raises due to increased power density, especially with chip-scale-packaging (CSP).


Eliminating EMC at the Source

Eliminating EMC at the Source

This article highlights Ing Buro Springett elimination of the source of the noise by replacing the mosfet with a source tabbed, Nexperia GAN063-650W.