Enhancement Mode Gallium Nitride MOSFET Delivers Impressive Performance

IF YOU ASK DR. ALEX LIDOW about the future of silicon MOSFETs, this 30-year veteran of the electronics industry will tell you that he sees the technology...

GaN Boosts MOSFET Figure of Merit

Tim McDonald, International Rectifier's vice president of Emerging Technologies, notes that silicon-based HEXFETs, Trench MOSFETs, and Super Junction...

Replace SLA Batteries with Li-Ion Technology

Applications with high-voltage, high-capacity requirements are adopting lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology because of its high energy density, small size,...

Direct Cooling of Power Modules Using Microchannel Structures

As integration and switching rates increase rapidly, the concentration of heat losses is similarly changing. The continuous trend to shrink die size steadily...

A Simple Yet Versatile Dimming Ballast Solution

Fluorescent dimming systems can satisfy visual comfort, and reduce utility costs through daylight harvesting, demand reduction, scheduled dimming, and...

Mobile Power Sources Impact Military Operations

As modern military systems become more mobile and electronically sophisticated, there is a greater reliance on associated power sources. The growing need...

Detecting Lithium-Ion Cell Internal Faults In Real Time

Internal cell faults continue to lead to thermal runaway failures in Li-ion battery packs used in the field. Though these events are rare, the proliferation...

Academia and Industry Pursue Engineering Education Support

THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND Mathematics (STEM) Education Coalition works to support STEM programs for teachers and students at the U. S....

New Module Family Can Make Any Engineer a Power Supply Designer

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. seems to be intent on simplifying power-supply design to the point that virtually any engineer can produce an efficient,...

HVDC Technology Transmission Link Ready to Power in China

SIEMENS ENERGY is hoping to become the technology leader in high-efficiency, environmentally friendly transmission of large amounts of electrical energy...

Premo and Nagares Join To Produce Smart-Grid Interface EMC Modules for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

NAGARES GROUP, a Spanish company that delivers electronic solutions to the automotive market, and PREMO, a technology leader for inductive and EMC components,...

New products

DC-DC Module Regulator THE LTM8027 from Linear Technology Corporation is a 4-A system-in-a-package dc-dc regulator that can operate from a 60-V supply...

POWER electronics

DC POWER SUPPLY WITH INPUT VOLTAGE POLARITY INDICATION United States Patent 7,482,712 Ford, et al. January 27, 2009 A multi-mode electromagnetic radiation...