Intelligent soft switching with AI support promises to reduce switching losses in power transistors by up to 95 per cent.

A discovery by an international team of scientists has revealed room-temperature ferroelectric and resistive switching behaviors in single-element tellurium (Te) nanowires, paving the way for ...

The EPC2050 offers power systems designers a 350 V, 80 mΩ maximum R DS(on), 26 A peak current power transistor in an extremely small chip-scale package. These new devices are ideal for multi-level ...

European Union-funded project seeks to rearchitect chips to stop energy "leakage" and make everyday electronics, from cell phones to supercomputers, 10 times more energy efficient. Martin LaMonica is ...

Unpacking the challenges with high-voltage power conversion and how SiC fits in. The pivotal advantages of SiC over traditional silicon in next-gen power converters. Rethinking circuit design for ...

Designed for the toughest engineering environments, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today unveiled its new XR family of “eXtremely Rugged” LDMOS RF power transistors. The XR family is designed ...

The chipmaker will shed light on a series of changes it's making to transistors that ideally will keep a lid on the growing problem of power consumption. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Mitsubishi Electric’s new 2.0kV LV100 semiconductor device is based on its insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology and Relaxed Field of Cathode (RFC) diodes. It is designed for industrial ...

Properties of wide-bandgap materials, with a focus on SiC. How a bridgeless totem-pole topology can help cut losses. A breakdown of the half-bridge inverter topology The efficiency of power-conversion ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

Power management ICs already contain power MOSFETs as integrated elements. This includes switching regulators with integrated FETs, of course, but also includes the driver ICs, which themselves ...