Power Electronics

Passive Components/Packaging/Interconnects

Testing Power Converters Using a Liquid-Rheostat Dummy Load

As part of a power electronics design project involving a 3.6-V dc-dc converter, it became necessary to test and accurately characterize the planar transformer...

Magnetics

One Powerful Decade: Keep Core Geometry in Mind When Designing Transformers

One Powerful Decade: Core geometry affects transformer performance, so the designer must be aware of the characteristics of the typical types: E cores, round center leg E cores, toroids and pot cores....

One Powerful Decade Update: Inductors Provide Important Functions in Power Electronic Systems

Used in applications ranging from RF to power supply filters, inductors are magnetic elements with resistance and capacitance parasitics...


Packaging

Isolated Voltage/Current Detection Optocouplers

Avago Technologies announced two new miniature voltage/current threshold detection optocouplers for use in a wide range of industrial control applications...

Printed Circuit Boards

Model PCB Thermals with Greater Accuracy

Electronics companies at the leading edge of performance are being forced to address board-level thermal requirements at the earliest stages of design....

Circuit Protection Devices

Two Polymer Positive Temperature Coefficient Resettable Fuses into a Single Package

Bourns, Inc. announced that the company has integrated two polymer positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) resettable fuses into a single package...

Bidirectional Symmetrical Single-Line ESD Protection Diode

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced a new bidirectional symmetrical (BiSy) single-line ESD protection diode in the LLP1006 package...


Connectors

Low Insertion Force 0.5mm Pitch FFC/FPC Connector Series for Price-Sensitive Applications

AVX Corporation has developed a 0.5mm pitch, low-insertion-force (LIF) FFC/FPC connector series for price-sensitive applications. ...

Capacitors

AVX Expands RoHS SMPS Stacked Capacitor Products

AVX Corporation has expanded its switch-mode power supply (SMPS) capacitor product offering to include an RoHS series...

Switches & Electromagnetic Relays

Low-Profile Rotary DIP Switches

C&K Components has developed a new series of low-profile rotary DIP switches. ...

Driving Piezoelectric Actuators

Extraordinarily fast devices that can produce precise motions in subnanometer increments, piezoelectric actuators make unusual demands on the power op amps required to drive them....


Resistors

SMT Precision Thin-Film Chip Resistor Series

The RNC series from Stackpole is a surface-mount precision thin film chip resistor series with one of the broadest ranges of resistance values, sizes, tolerances, and TCRs in the industry...

Sensors & Transducers

Cost-Effective Miniature Incremental Encoders

Providing design engineers with a cost-effective, high pulse per revolution device for applications with small shaft motors, TT electronics OPTEK Technology offers a family of low-cost miniature incremental encoders....

Passive Component News

Product Library And Capacitor Models Are Now Available On The Simetrix/Simplis Simulation Tool

KEMET Corporation announced that it has released its full line of capacitor models to the SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation software...

Low-Profile Gate Drive Transformer With 1500Vdc Isolation

TT electronics BI Technologies has developed a family of gate drive transformers in miniature surface mount packages...

Low Height Shielded Surface Mount Inductors

Wurth Electronics Midcom Inc has released the WE-TPC (low height) line of small shielded surface mount inductors...

Infineon Introduces Third Generation Silicon Carbide Schottky Diodes

Infineon Technologies AG introduced its third generation thinQ!(tm) SiC Schottky diodes...


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Product Library And Capacitor Models Are Now Available On The Simetrix/Simplis Simulation Tool

Low-Profile Gate Drive Transformer With 1500Vdc Isolation

Low Height Shielded Surface Mount Inductors

Infineon Introduces Third Generation Silicon Carbide Schottky Diodes

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