Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal stresses. Soft switching employs more sophisticated design to reduce stresses and ...

The critical role of snubber circuits in minimizing ringing and overshoot. How snubber circuitry is evolving to adapt to trends in power electronics, like the rising interest in wide-bandgap ...

The Murata Power Solutions 3000A and 3000B series of low profile power inductors are used in noise reduction circuits of high frequency and high current switching power supplies, DC-DC converters and ...

The previous column in this series discussed driver and layout considerations to improve the performance achievable with eGaN FETs. In this installment the optimum layout will be implemented in a high ...