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Spotlight on Passive Components 
Jul 1, 2007
Wet Tantalum Capacitor Vishay Intertechnology's HE3 wet tantalum high-energy capacitor features a case design with SuperTan technology for improved reliability and performance in high-energy applications....

Nichrome Resistors Deliver Reliability at Lower Cost 
Aug 1, 2006
An alternative to expensive tantalum nitride resistors, these precision, moisture-resistant components can perform voltage division or setting of gain in power-supply circuits....

New Products 
May 1, 2006
PWM Controller The IR3624 from International Rectifier is a 600-kHz single-phase synchronous buck PWM controller IC designed for high-density, 10-A nonisolated...

PolySwitch Device Enhances Overcurrent Protection 
Apr 1, 2006
Where resettable overcurrent protection is a requirement, PolySwitch polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) devices offer a highly effective...

New Products: March 2006 
Mar 23, 2006
This issue of Power Electronics Technology features analog switches, buck regulator for GPUs, LED driver, SMT inductor/transformer......

New Products: February 2006 
Feb 1, 2006
This issue of Power Electronics Technology features battery-charger ICs, rectifiers, thick film resistors and inductors...

Specifying Resistors for Motor Control Applications 
Nov 1, 2005
Motor controllers used to power, stop and control the speed of a variety of motors must deal with a wide variety of surges due to switching events. When...

Top 10 Tidbits of Battery Wisdom 
Jul 28, 2005
By avoiding common design errors, designers can extend the runtime of their battery-powered portable products....

SPICE Analog Behavioral Modeling of Variable Passives 
Mar 1, 2005
Very often when simulating an electrical circuit in SPICE, there is a need for a variable passive element such as a resistor, a capacitor or an inductor....

Sensorless Control For PMDC Motors 
Feb 1, 2005
A technique for controlling motor speed without Hall sensors or other signal-generating devices saves wear on bearings and brushes, decreases motor noise, and reduces no-load current....

Passive Current Sharing Boosts Power and Reliability 
Jan 1, 2005
Passive current sharing is a method of paralleling the outputs of two or more power supplies or dc-dc converters so that they share the load near equally....

Foil Technology Yields Low Power Coefficient Resistors 
Jun 1, 2002
A new Z-based foil technology reduces resistor sensitivity, enabling improvements in ambient temperature and self-heating effects, with increased accuracy for fixed resistor applications....

Thin-Film Resistors Shrink Electronic Systems 
Feb 1, 2002
High reliability resistor applications usually tend toward the use of thin-film rather than thick-film technology. Thin film is the technology of choice because of its ability to produce components with greater stability over frequency and time....

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IGBTs
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Power MOSFETs
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Motor Power Management
Power ICs
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