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Lower-voltage GaN FETs are reducing size, minimizing cooling requirements and improving efficiency. Applications for 100-V (and lower) GaN FETs are numerous, from reducing distortion in Class D audio ...

Interference-free data communication and personal safety are two major challenges for electronics in typical industrial environments. Within industrial environments, there are numerous cases where ...

Compared to lateral discrete solutions, vertical power delivery modules can save up to 150 tons of CO₂ over three years per rack. Infineon Technologies AG has announced an expansion of its ...

Silicon Carbide (SiC) has challenging opportunities in the semiconductor and power electronics industry for multiple applications such as electric vehicles, renewable energies, and others. Silicon ...

In this course, you will learn how to use the SPICE language to create models of electrical circuits and simulate their performance. This article begins a new Simulation Program with Integrated ...

Many state-of-the-art battery-powered technological devices provide for the possibility of recharging without the physical connection to a power supply, but by simple support to a special base station ...

Power electronics plays a role in optimizing efficiency and power density. A powertrain is a system of components in a vehicle that converts the chemical energy of the fuel into mechanical energy that ...

For decades, silicon has dominated the transistor world, but that has been gradually changing. Compound semiconductors made of two or three materials have been developed and offer unique benefits and ...

SiC and GaN stand center stage, controlling many different industries’ dynamics. With power management becoming a fundamental aspect of emerging electronics applications such as vehicle ...

One of the more spirited seminars at APEC, due to its topic of GaN versus SiC, was an insightful discussion with many compelling arguments. Wide-bandgap semiconductors—specifically gallium nitride and ...

Gallium nitride–based high-electron–mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been widely adopted in both consumer and industrial power conversion due to their many material and device advantages over legacy ...