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Toshiba Electronics Europe has expanded its N-channel power MOSFET portfolio with nine new devices aimed at the power lines inside industrial equipment. The lineup includes three 100 V parts for 48 V systems and six 60 V parts for 24 V systems, each offered in a choice of three small surface-mount packages. The release is aimed at engineers building programmable logic controllers, inverters and servo motors, and servers, along with smaller appliances. Packaging options.

High-speed, high-voltage converters often face reliability issues. The gate driver is more than just a control interface; it can be a main failure point. In a half-bridge inverter, even a brief parasitic turn-on of less than 100 ns can cause shoot-through currents that go beyond the device's short-circuit rating, damaging both switches in one cycle.

Grid upgrades are increasing in the U.S., but not nearly fast enough to meet demand, according to a report by energy-efficiency analysts, ICF. The report projects that demand will increase by 21% in 2030 and 39% by 2035, driven by data centers, industrial electrification, and electric vehicles. New generation and transmission infrastructure are also expanding, but the growth rate doesn’t come close to meeting the projected energy demand.

Signals & Systems (India) Private Limited, known by the brand name SANDS, is primarily a technology company, developing and manufacturing niche-technology products using embedded technology for the Industrial segments, Generation, Transmission & Distribution segments of the Power Industry.

This article is published by EEPower as part of an exclusive digital content partnership with Bodo’s Power Systems. Article co-authored by Saxogy CEO Konrad Domes. For more than 20 years, Saxogy Power Electronics, based in Chemnitz, Germany, has been developing customized solutions in the fields of safety test benches and electronics for power electronic applications.

Nuclear, renewable energy, and energy storage systems are trending to meet energy demand and decarbonization goals. In the latest nuclear developments, TerraPower has reached an important step in expanding its Natrium reactor systems in the U.K., and Valar Atomics’ reactor has achieved criticality at its Utah site. Storage technology is also expanding to provide grid-scale stability.

Aimtec has expanded its low-power modular power supply portfolio with the introduction of the AM1GU-LPZ and AM3GU-LPZ series. Sized specifically for applications facing strict board space constraints, these regulated SIP8 DC-DC converters bring an ultra-wide 8:1 input voltage capability to modern industrial, embedded, and IoT designs. Traditional low-power converter modules typically operate within narrow, standard 2:1 or 4:1 input voltage ranges.

Follow 1 Articles 0 Followers 0 Likes Philipp Berkemeier is an Electrical Engineer at Saxogy Power Electronics.

Energy Dome and Salt River Project (SRP) will add a 19 MW, 10-hour carbon dioxide (CO2) battery system to the Arizona grid. The project aims to provide grid stability as SRP adds more renewable energy while easing dependency on lithium-ion batteries. The Energy Dome battery stores excess renewable energy by compressing carbon dioxide into a liquid for storage, then reheating and expanding it back into gas to drive a turbine and generate electricity.

As power converters get smaller and denser, the PCB becomes the limiting factor. Most conventional surface-mount packages depend on the board to spread heat away from the die. That means the board's thermal capacity effectively caps how much power a design can handle in a given footprint. Nexperia’s top-side-cooled QDPAK package for its 1200 V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs is aimed at high-power designs facing thermal limits.