Sensata Technologies has announced the launch of its Gigavac GTM400 and GTM500 bidirectional contactors for applications up to 1500 Vdc and 400A and 500A. The new contactors are ideal for high-power applications that require reliable switching and DC circuit protection like energy storage systems, DC fast charging stations, and heavy-duty vehicles.

The buck-boost converter is a type of DC-to-DC converter with an output voltage magnitude that is either greater or less than the input voltage magnitude, and it offers several benefits to design engineers.

Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation has announced the launch of its 1200V and 650V Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs), designed for the positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heaters of electric vehicles (EVs).

At the recent launch of its BEV Factory Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) revealed that its next-generation BEVs (battery electric vehicles) will start production in 2026. Not only will they be designed and built differently, they will also be powered by a range of new advanced batteries developed specifically to exceed Toyota customers’ diverse needs and expectations.

Due to the increasing demand from exhibiting companies, the leading exhibition for power electronics which will take place from 11 – 13 June 2024 at the Nuremberg Exhibition Center will be expanded to four halls.

How are companies responding to the chip shortage and what are policymakers commenting? Here we sum up the most important events related to the global shortage of microchips. The article is updated continuously.

With 181 exhibitors and 15,348 visits, this year’s edition of PCIM Asia saw three days of high-level business exchange, networking and showcases of the most innovative products on the market. In addition to the exhibition, there were 49 presentations at the PCIM Asia concurrent forums, and a further 72 presentations at the highly renowned PCIM Asia 2023 conference, which attracted 646 visits. Participants were excited to gather once again in Shanghai, remarking on the positive direction of the industry.

Anyone who was around in the Sixties and Seventies would have witnessed the appearance of a radical new musical genre; electric rock’n’roll. This article looks at how this unprecedented phenomenon depended not only on the artists’ skill and innovation, but also on the electronics technology emerging at the time.

Learn how to enable your Oscilloscope to carry out stable and accurate measurements on PWM waveforms.

This paper proposes an advanced high-speed protection scheme based on a wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor.

This paper presents the prototype of a 200-kW two-stage converter based on the cascade association of a Three-Level Boost Chopper and a Solid-State Transformer.

This paper presents a machine-learning approach to model semiconductor junction temperatures.

The word “wafer” points to the semiconductor manufacturing process. In fact, a wafer is the foundation of semiconductor fabrication. But did you know that a semiconductor manufacturing plant transforms “sand” into a wafer, eventually leading to the “small black chip”? The second article of the semiconductor manufacturing series explains the highly popular wafers and the processes involved. The article mainly discusses silicon wafer production and lists some other wafer materials as well.

“Moore’s law is dead!” This is a line of thought championed by many prominent individuals in the fields of electrical and power engineering. But it’s quite a controversial one; just as many people believe Moore’s Law is still true today in 2023 as those who believe that it’s dead and no longer valid.

Semiconductor Manufacturing is a critical industrial process that leads to mankind’s easy tech-based lifestyle through consumer electronics, appliances, electrical vehicles, IoT, and many more applications. This five-part article series details the process of semiconductor manufacturing straightway from the books to the one inside the phone in your pocket. This article discusses the basics of semiconductor manufacturing and some statistics.

MIT scientists and their colleagues have created a simple superconducting device that could transfer current through electronic devices much more efficiently than is possible today.

At the European Microwave Week (EuMW), dSPACE will show how software updates make radar target simulators more accurate and powerful so that radar sensors and applications can be reliably tested in development, production, quality assurance, and maintenance.

Pronounced as “Risk Five” in the world of chipmakers, the RISC-V “Reduced Instruction Set Computer” is all set to take over the decade’s new-age AI hardware. RISC-V chips are open-source royalty-free hardware used for high-processing AI and ML applications with exceptional customization options. The article explains the importance of RISC-V and the quest of giant chip makers to revolutionize open-source hardware.

The term “coding” is analogous to computer, IT, and software engineers and breadboard connections to electrical/electronics engineers. But it is a lesser-known fact that most electrical/electronics engineers are skilled in many programming languages and also work on softwares (EDA-Electronic Design Automation Softwares).

Modern electronics continuously evolve into new devices and technologies that require robust hardware. Circuit simulation is a method to digitally test circuits without the physical need for connections. The article explains circuit simulation and the power electronics industry-standard tools to test circuits for obtaining desired output accurately.