By: Paul Wiener, Vice President Strategic Marketing, Julian Styles, Director Application Business Development Both at Infineon Technologies
The data center industry is at a crossroads, facing unprecedented transformation due to the surge in generative AI and other emerging technologies. This surge has massively increased the power consumption on servers, putting a strain on data centers around the world. Data centers already account for about 2 perce
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Wouldn't it be nice to save 25% to 30%, or even more, in circuit board power dissipation in your next design?
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Many applications in power management are based on buck topology. The purpose of this application note is to describe a technique to overcome the current limitation of these solutions.
The
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Recent studies have indicated that standby power consumption can range as high as 10 percent of all domestic electricity usage.
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Increasing demand for clean electrical power has led to a focus on renewable energy sources such as solar power.
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A new solar carport transforms the parking space into a provider
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A 4.5 kV IGCT (Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristor) with extraordinary high Safe Operating Area (SOA) at 140°C is presented. The improvements for the IGCT were achieved by optimizing the corrugated
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At least two power reactors are needed for solar inverters: one in the boost converter (step-up chopper) and one at the ouput of the inverter for EMC filtering. Besides the IGBTs, the losses in the reactors are a major determining factor of the overall efficiency of the inverter
Reported by Cliff Keys, Editorial Director & Editor-in-Chief, Power Systems Design
Low-loss and high saturation flux density core materials in reactors and transformers are a key determining factor for the efficiency of inverters.
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Photovoltaic cell technology over the last few years has reached levels of cost and efficiency that enable its use in new markets.
Due to the varying sunlight conditions, energy storage