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Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America

The Growing Importance of Power Semiconductors in Modern Electronics Applications

Kevin Parmenter, Director, Applications Engineering. TSC, America

The ongoing demand for energy efficiency and sustainability across global industries, governments and corporations is fueling the need for advanced power semiconductors. According to a recent report from Mordor Intelligence, the power semiconductor market is projected to grow from $56.87 billion in 2025 to $74.36 billion by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 5.51%. Power semico

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11/01/2025

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

The Namesake of Power Systems Design

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

Welcome to the November issue! With the Spooky Season (and The Battery Show) behind us, we’ve now entered the home stretch of 2025, along with Thanksgiving, the unmitigated horror of Black Friday, and the holidays (and my son’s birthday) to close out the year. Of late, one of the biggest news sto

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11/01/2025

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Little Chips That Power Large Applications

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Welcome to the November edition of PSD. In this issue we will look at power semiconductors – the tiny devices that are the foundation of the industry. The industry is always innovating to create new materials, better control methods and smaller solutions that provide greater and greater efficiency. This mo

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11/01/2025

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Figure 1: A diagram displaying a PoE Switch at the center, distributing both network connectivity and power to various peripheral devices like IP cameras, IP phones, and wireless access points

Power Over Ethernet: Driving Simplicity and Intelligence at the Edge

Jeff Kring, Bel Fuse

Ethernet has long been the backbone of digital communication. It is valued for its ability to support high data rates over long distances and its versatility across consumer, commercial, automotive, and industrial sectors. However, as the demand for intelligent edge devices grows, Ethernet is evolving. Power ov

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11/01/2025

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Figure 1: Cross-sections of each type of aluminum electrolytic capacitor: wet, polymer, and hybrid

Stacked Ceramic Capacitors’ Impact on Switch Mode Power Supplies

Ron Demcko, Senior Fellow, KYOCERA AVX Corporation

Not all modern electronics require increased power density. But it’s safe to say that getting more power out of power supplies with equivalent or smaller weights and volumes is of near universal interest in the design world, regardless. Switch Mode Power Supplies Switch mode power supplies (SMPS) are on

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11/01/2025

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Figure 1: Cross-sectional views illustrating the cell pitch for different Power MOSFET technologies: double trench, asymmetric trench, traditional planar, and trench-assisted planar technologies

Trench-Assisted Planar SiC MOSFET Architecture Overview

Siddarth Sundaresan, Sr. VP of Technology, Sumit Jadav, Sr. Director of Technical Marketing (GaN & SiC), Arash Salemi, Senior Manager Technical Marketing and Jaehoon Park, Director of SiC Device Technology, all Navitas Semiconductor

The two established architectures of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs for high-power systems – planar and trench – both present a fundamental unappealing compromise for power engineers. The manufacturing simplicity of the planar gate structure enables increased yields and therefore lower costs. This stru

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11/01/2025

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Figure 1: EOS worst case – high-side gate drain short whilst the low-side is on

AI PSUs Need Cutting Edge Gate Driver ICs

Hubert Baierl, Marketing Director, Infineon Technologies

Achieving a 100 W/inch3 power density in an 8 kW SMPS, with a 97.5% peak efficiency and a compact 1U form factor can be quite the design challenge. But it is now within reach thanks to a smart combination of switching devices: · PFC stage: 650 V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs (I

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Date:

11/01/2025

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Figure 1: Block diagram of a solid-state circuit breaker

SiC JFETs are the Future of Solid-State Circuit Breakers

Michal Csiba, Technical Marketing Analyst, onsemi

A circuit breaker is a device used to protect electrical circuits from damage caused by overcurrent, overload, and short circuits. An electromechanical breaker (EMB), the de facto standard, consists of two separate triggers: bimetal, which is slow and tripped by overcurrent, and electromagnetic, which is fast an

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Date:

11/01/2025

Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

Will America Tinker with Taiwan's "Silicon Shield"?

Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

The Trump Administration is pressuring Taiwan to quickly move half of its semiconductor production to the U.S. or risk losing American military protection. And no, this isn’t the domino that leads inexorably to World War 3 (probably), but it does throw into sharp contrast the so-called “Silicon Shield” an

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11/01/2025

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Figure 1: Block diagram showing the main components of a PoE system

Power over Ethernet - Supply of Ethernet Devices Via Data Lines

Thomas Brand, Field Applications Engineer, Analog Devices

In process automation systems, important parameters such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, humidity, and many others must be monitored and measured. In the era of Industry 4.0, Ethernet is a popular communication standard. Because Ethernet is wired and transmitters and sensors typically require a power su

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Date:

11/01/2025