Eltek Valere’s new 2000-W ac-dc rectifier for telecom applications boosts typical efficiency from the 92% available from some existing rectifiers to 96%, cutting rectifier power losses in half (see ...

AC/DC power-factor correction (PFC) rectifiers are hugely benefitting from GaN FETs. They have very simple topologies; The inductor is the only magnetic part and this is usually a constant-frequency ...

Eric Lidow, a pioneer in power electronics and the founder of International Rectifier, has died at the age of 100. Lidow was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1912. He was educated as an electrical ...

Nexperia has entered into a partnership with KYOCERA AVX Components to jointly produce a 650 V, 20 A silicon carbide (SiC) rectifier module. Intended for high frequency power applications ranging from ...

Linear Technology has released a controller chip that turns four n-mosfets into an active bridge rectifier and cut the expected voltage drop of a bridge from 1.2V to under 100mV, dramatically cutting ...

Diodes has announced ZXGD3113, a synchronous rectifier controller intended to work with a mosfet to replace the voltage drop associated with a Schottky diode on the secondary side of an isolated power ...

International Rectifier's (IR) mission is saving energy. By improving the efficiency of electricity end uses International Rectifier's (IR) mission is saving energy. By improving the efficiency of ...

Power electronics is a key enabling technology in essentially all electronic systems and is increasingly important in the grid interface of renewable energy sources and in efficient electrical loads.