Data Centers

    October 2022
    SemiQ Announces Launch of 1200V 40mΩ Silicon Carbide MOSFET

    SemiQ Announces Launch of 1200V 40mΩ Silicon Carbide MOSFET

    ­SemiQ announced the launch of its 2nd Generation Silicon Carbide power switch, a 1200V 40mΩ SiC MOSFET, expanding its portfolio of SiC power devices. This MOSFET complements the company’s existing 80mΩ SiC MOSFETs and SiC rectifiers at 650V, 1200V and 1700V. SemiQ has engineered this MOSFET to provid
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    Date:
    10/17/2022
    Achieving High Power Density in a Regulated IBC for Data Center Applications

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    Figure 1: 48 V server architecture in a typical data center

    Introduction Approximately half of the energy consumed in a typical data center is wasted, either during power conversion or through cooling. Given the increasingly urgent requirement to reduce CO2 emissions, this undesirable situation required addressing at both system and converter levels. Research [1] indicates that using 48 V power distribution at the rack level would help to reduce power los
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    Date:
    10/01/2022
    Driving Wide Bandgap Devices

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    ­In power electronics, semiconductor transistors with a wide bandgap, such as silicon carbide or gallium nitride, are becoming increasingly popular. Higher switching speeds promise higher efficiency and higher power densities. Two reference designs from Würth Elektronik show how an isolated 6 W auxiliary power suppl
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    Date:
    10/01/2022
    Archive

    Transformer Design Comparisons for Mitigating EMI in Gate Driver Circuits

    Mar 29,2026
    Matthew Russell, Master’s student at University College Cork, and a student engineer at Bourns Electronics Ireland

    1250 V/1700 V GaN HEMTs for NVIDIA 800 VDC Architecture

    Jan 31,2026
    Kamal Varadarajan & Chris Lee, Power Integrations

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