Wide-Bandgap Semis

    July 2018
    Silicon Carbide Devices for Automotive Power Electronics
    Automotive OEMs and their suppliers have been on the high power, high growth vehicle electrification path for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)/electric vehicles (EVs) and beyond even to electrification of busses, trucks, trains and more electric aircraft (MEA). With high power demands beyond the efficiency and r
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    Date:
    07/31/2018
    Mouser Adds 25 New Suppliers in First Half of 2018
    Mouser Electronics has added more than 25 new suppliers YTD to its already vast line card of over 700 suppliers. With an already extensive portfolio of products and suppliers across the board, the additional suppliers bolster the product choices for Mouser’s unique design engineer customer base and component buye
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    Date:
    07/11/2018
    New 650V IGBTs Deliver Class-Leading Efficiency with Soft Switching
    ROHM has announced the availability of two new types of 650V IGBTs that combine class-leading low conduction loss with high-speed switching characteristics. This makes them ideal for power conversion in general-purpose inverters and converters for consumer appliances, such as ACs and IH (Induction Heaters), as
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    Date:
    07/11/2018
    Infineon’s CoolGaN opens up a new horizon in power management
    The key benefits of gallium nitride (GaN) are, amongst others, high power density, best-in-class efficiency and decreased system costs. Infineon Technologies is starting volume production for CoolGaN™ products by the end of 2018, the company announced during PCIM Europe. Engineering samples of the high reliable Ga
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    Date:
    07/11/2018
    Authorised Yuasa battery distributor Gresham Power Electronics, the Salisbury based Defence and Commercial power conversion specialist, announces the availability of two series of high reliability VRLA batteries (valve-regulated lead-acid) from Yuasa’s wide industrial product range. VRLA batteries are more commo
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    Date:
    07/11/2018
    PSDcast - Hard vs Soft Switching

    Bruce T Renouard, the CEO of Pre-Switch.

    On this episode of the PSDcast, we're chatting with Pre-Switch about hard and soft switching and some of the fundamental differences between the two ...
    Date:
    07/03/2018
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