MUNICH, Germany — The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Freiburg, Germany) claims it has achieved a record efficiency for its inverter designed for PV generators. Key to the high ...

Scientists from France’s CEA-Ines developed a 400 W micro-inverter with a power density of 1.1 kW/L and an efficiency of 97%. The device utilizes GaN 600V diodes and power transistors developed by CEA ...

CREE has developed a new MOSFET that could be suitable for silicon-carbide-based string inverters above 10 kW in size. The U.S. manufacturer says switching losses are 20% lower with the new transistor ...

ARMS three-phase inverter platform built around the Gen-7 EPC2366 eGaN® power transistor, showcased at EPC’s booth ...

Pre-Switch has published the highest-efficiency data for its 200-kW CleanWave200 inverter have been recently released by Pre-Switch. Interviewed by EETimes, Bruce Renouard, CEO of Pre-Switch, ...

Cambridge GaN Devices has patented a technique for lowering losses in 100kW+ IGBT-based vehicle traction drives, at lower cost than all-silicon-carbide inverters, it said. It involves connecting GaN ...

I'm reading 'Getting Started in Electronics' by Forrest M. Mimms, and this circuit in the book has me confused.<P>View image: http://robo.cx/ai/circuit.jpg <P>It ...

Earlier this week, Californian company Pre-Switch claimed 99.3% efficiency for a 100kHz electric vehicle traction inverter running at 100kW. It credits this impressive figure to the use of a resonant ...