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 ...

Power device manufacturers exhibit their latest advances in topologies, packaging, and solutions at APEC 2026.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST has introduced a pair of autonomous secondary-side synchronous-rectification controllers for fly-back converters, suitable for quasi-resonant and continuous-discontinuous conduction fixed frequency ...

Power electronics systems exclusively use silicon-based power management with power semiconductor switches. These switches are power metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), insulated ...