Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a railcar traction inverter system for 1500VDC catenaries that incorporates what is claimed to be the first all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes. ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric SiC power modules SiC, Electrical, Electronics
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
Texas Instruments introduced the industry's first floating switch architecture that simplifies the offline linear drive of LEDs in lamps, downlights and fixtures. The AC switched matrix technique features TI's TPS92411 floating MOSFET ...
Tags: Offline LED, Lighting
Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has announced new inventory of gallium nitride (GaN) power management products, available for immediate shipment as part of an exclusive global ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA is partnering with Asia-based original device manufacturer (ODM) Wistron NeWeb Corp (WNC), which supplies connected home solutions for a number of branded original ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electronics
ROHM Semiconductor of Santa Clara, CA (the US arm of system LSI, discrete components and module product maker ROHM Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) has launched two 80milliOhm 1200V silicon carbide MOSFETs, the SCT2080KE and SCH2080KE, designed to ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC2018 as the newest member of its family of enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs). The EPC2018 is a ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
KULeuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a solid-phase epitaxy ...
One of the challenges for designers of LED lamps is to create a lighting system that produces constant light output, without noticeable flickering. In systems that use a single-stage LED driver, flicker-free lighting can be hard to achieve, ...
Tags: LED lamps, Semicondustor, Lights, Lighting
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC2016 as the newest member of its family of enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs). The EPC2016 is a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
ROHM Co., Ltd. (Kyoto-based) developed a 4-wire LED driver for LCD TV panels, achieving significantly lower power consumption. According to the available information and confirmation from relevant TV makers, the power consumption of ...
Tags: LCD TV Panels, LED Driver
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that its newly expanded portfolio of 1200V SiC MOSFETs is being incorporated into the latest power supplies from Netherlands-based Delta Elektronika BV. Consequently, Delta Elektronika has demonstrated a 21% ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Cree announced on July 22 that its newly expanded portfolio of 1200-V SiC MOSFETs is being incorporated into the latest advanced power supplies from Delta Elektronika BV. Delta Elektronika demonstrated a 21 percent decrease in overall ...
Dimmable, multi-topology DC/DC constant-current controller features low-side current sense Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced a high-power, multi-topology DC/DC LED driver with adjustable switching frequency and current sense ...
Tags: TI, LED Driver, Lighting