Today, we’re exploring Mears Silicon Technology (MST), Atomera’s innovative solution for improving the performance and efficiency of silicon-based devices. MST has the potential to transform power ...

Today, we’re exploring Mears Silicon Technology (MST), Atomera’s innovative solution for improving the performance and efficiency of silicon-based devices. MST has the potential to transform power ...

Electric motors offer numerous performance advantages over traditional internal-combustion engines (ICEs). One of the main advantages is the ability to provide maximum torque instantly, improving the ...

2024 has been a crucial year for the power electronics sector in terms of development, preparing for radical changes in 2025 and beyond. Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors and artificial-intelligence ...

Impact of the semiconductor industry Nowadays, there is a strong focus on sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing. If we look at emissions across the entire supply chain across all sectors, we ...

GaN FET thermal calculator The use of the thermal calculator is easy and self-driven. The user starts by filling in the input parameters for the devices and the board/heatsink configuration. The ...

Class AB Amplifier The main class AB advantage is that it has the lowest distortion—total harmonic distortion plus noise (THD + N) is less than 0.1% for high fidelity. The main disadvantages are that ...

This conductivity can be adjusted by applying an electric field to a certain contact of the component. Silicon carbide is one of the most promising WBG semiconductors and offers higher energy ...

Aehr Test Systems disclosed that an initial customer order for a FOX WaferPak Aligner and a FOX-NP wafer-level test and burn-in system intended for gallium nitride power devices has been received. The ...

Other improvements in the DC-DC converter include the replacement of the flyback diode with synchronous rectifier circuitry with power FET that has less resistance and decreases the losses during ...

Figure 1 shows the most general scheme of a motor drive. The power converter generates regulated electric energy that is used to drive the motor, whose output is mechanical energy. Figure 2 represents ...

Barry Lin, CTO of Wavetek Microelectronics, noted in an exclusive interview with Power Electronics News the semiconductor industry landscape, especially for compound semiconductors, with several ...