In early December, Transphorm announced the sampling of its first Gen V device under its proprietary SuperGaN brand, the TP65H015G5WS, which has been designed for electric vehicles and offers significantly lower power loss.

STMicroelectronics has released a new generation of high-voltage AC/DC converter technology. Part of the VIPer series, it enables the design of fully protected and highly reliable power supplies that are suited to applications like AC-DC adapters for laptops.

Maxim Integrated has announced a high-accuracy Li-ion fuel gauge and protection IC circuit that extends run-time on multi-cell battery-powered products while also monitoring against self-discharge hazards.

The new MinE-CAP IC from Power Integrations, the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, reduces the total volume of AC-DC converters by up to 40 percent.

UK-based company InterGen has been given the go-ahead to deploy a new 320 MW / 640 MWh battery energy storage facility near London. The new facility will be the UK’s largest, capable of providing fast-reacting power.

At the end of what has been a disruptive year, GaN Systems has released its 2021 Technology Predictions in Power Electronics Report, a detailed look at how GaN power technology will itself disrupt the power electronics market in 2021.

ABI Research's 2021 Trend Report identifies the one key Location Technology market trend that will deliver in 2021 - and the one that will not. In addition, the global technology market consultancy forecasts that 300 million ultra-wideband devices will be shipped in 2021.

Most investors have probably already know that electric vehicles were one of the hottest markets, if not the single hottest market in 2020. They might also already know that Tesla soared 592%, and that its Chinese counterparts NIO, Xpeng, and Li Automobile soared 1411%, 105%, and 106% respectively.

To reduce our carbon footprint by electrifying society, massive deployment of renewable energy sources has become mandatory. This requires grid-tied energy storage system to balance energy production and consumption demands, to help grid stability.

Nowadays the use of lithium-ion batteries is growing very quickly in numerous fields of application, including high performance electric vehicles as well as grid-tied power converters for the integration of renewable energy.

Wide band-gap power semiconductor devices such as SiC and GaN devices break thermal operating limits and switching speed limits of the Si semiconductors.

Many publications have already dealt with the unwanted parasitic turn-on (PTO) of semiconductor devices and how to get rid of it. But in the same-titled paper, it was shown that high power applications may even benefit from a small PTO.

Researchers have found that cation engineering could be the answer to solving the problem of lithium microstructure proliferation during battery use, potentially paving the way for the development of safer, longer-lasting next-generation batteries.

A team of researchers from South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology claims to have developed a faster charging and longer lasting battery material that can charge cars up to 90 percent in a record time of just 6 minutes.

Power electronics development tools have come a long way forward, thanks to affordable and ever-increasing, performance wise, digital signal processing solutions. Modeling and simulations, both off-line and more importantly, in the real-time, are essential steps in the development of power electronics solutions.

Following decades of research, engineers and scientists at the University of Rochester have reportedly achieved the long-sought goal that could ‘break down barriers and open the door to many potential applications.’

As the need for power system flexibility has grown alongside the rapid decline in the cost of storage technologies, especially lithium-ion batteries, the interest in grid-scale battery energy storage has gained much prominence.

Arbe, announced a partnership with Qamcom that will expand their 4D Imaging Radar Solution to additional vehicle applications like trucks, buses, delivery PODS, and industrial verticals like industrial robots, security systems, ground protection, drones, traffic monitoring, and many more.

Embedded software development has always been challenging, because it requires knowledge of the software’s target hardware. This challenge has grown as engineers must increasingly include connectivity, security and now, artificial intelligence capabilities. Here, we look at the issues and possible solutions.

Modern power electronics systems typically involve sophisticated designs while being critical to the reliability and safety of their target environments. Due to their internal components’ complex interactions and behaviors, simulation is often the only way to predict their performance.*