Out of all of the fundamental passive electronic components, capacitors are arguably the most abundantly used. In fact, it is hard to find a circuit board that does not have a capacitor on it and a ...

NOJA Power's OSM Automatic Circuit Reclosers are being successfully utilized as capacitor switches in Colombia. NOJA Power reclosers can be used in situations beyond the traditional protection grading ...

How the fast switching speeds and other characteristics of SiC devices create new challenges in DC-link capacitor design. Key ...

New automotive features and functionality thanks to autonomous vehicle technologies, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and other safety and sensing ...

While capacitor versions have not changed much, there are a number of new power applications, where they are now used, such as alternative energy, electric vehicles (EVs), energy storage and more.

Kyocera AVX has released the new traction-grade FFLK series DC filtering capacitors. The new traction-grade DC filtering film capacitors are created to deliver safe, reliable, and long-lifetime ...

Using a hybrid silica sol-gel material and self-assembled monolayers of a common fatty acid, researchers have developed a new capacitor dielectric material that provides an electrical energy storage ...

With digital twins (virtual replicas of objects or systems) of capacitors, engineers can simulate system-level interactions ...

Not all UPS designs are the same. As a result of cost savings in the very competitive UPS market, some designs may not have the highest level of component reliability. Capacitors are an integral part ...

Materials major Sabic will introduce a thinner gauge of its Elcres HTV150A amorphous polycarbonate (PC) co-polymer–based dielectric film at the 2022 Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in ...

Power system designers are constantly under pressure to attain larger power densities and improved conversion efficiencies, whether it is for data servers for the internet of things or data centers.

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