IXYS Introduces 1.2KV Converter-Brake-Inverter Module with XPT IGBT and Integrated Active Rectifiers --- Highest Level of Power Integration "This unique module integrates an Active Rectifier bridge ...

Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage drop. Which isn’t to say that with some effort we cannot create an ideal ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of power semiconductors, power ICs, and ...

For a PDF version of this article, click here. Power converters based on the forward topology offer high efficiency and good power-handling capability in applications up to several hundred watts. The ...

The high reliability (MP-grade) versions of the LT1952/-1, LTC3900 and LT4430 combine to create up to 95% efficient synchronous rectified isolated forward converter. It is specified and production ...

Digital signal processing ICs continue to demand more current and power as their voltage requirements drop. In applications such as consumer electronics, achieving high efficiency while designing for ...

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 ...

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has announced a family of active diodes which can reduce the 1.2V forward drop of 600V bridge rectifiers. “Both products are self-powered from the AC line and do not ...

This article presents another type of regulator switching topology, which are the isolated DC/DC converters. It covers the flyback and forward DC/DC converter, active clamp forward converter, ...