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A tiny power module might ease the world’s energy crunch

Global electricity demand is rising faster than new large power plants can be built, and the cost of that imbalance is ...

A Tiny Power Module Could Help Solve the World’s Growing Energy Crisis

The world’s energy demand is rising, and NREL’s ULIS power module could help meet it. Demand for energy worldwide is climbing rapidly, driven in part by power hungry data centers that support ...
Business Wire

Arieca Announces an Agreement to Develop a Liquid-Metal-Based Thermal Interface Material for Power Modules in the Electric Vehicle (xEV) Segment

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arieca, a leader in liquid-metal-based Thermal Interface Materials (TIM), entered into a joint research agreement with ROHM Co., Ltd., a leading provider of power ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Enabling New Applications With SiC IGBT And GaN HEMT For Power Module Design

The need to mitigate climate change is driving a need to electrify our infrastructure, vehicles, and appliances, which can then be charged and powered by renewable energy sources. The most visible and ...
Electronic Design

Magnetic Packaging Helps Slash DC-DC Module Size Even Further

These ultra-tiny power modules developed by Texas Instruments, which are 23% smaller than competing devices, also improve power density and efficiency. 1. New power modules built with MagPack ...
Electronic Design

Thermal Interface Materials: Cool Options for Better Power Density

The benefits of thermal interface materials. Comparing FR-4 laminate with insulated metal substrate (IMS) PCB. How phase-change TIMs may prove to be the best solution. One of the most important—and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Use S-Parameters For Power Module Verification

Power modules are high-power switching circuits that convert DC- in AC-currents in electric vehicles, renewable energy, and many more applications. New materials [14] and device technologies [14], ...
EDN

TI unveils power modules with new packaging technology

Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. has unveiled six new power modules that deliver benefits in power density, efficiency and thermal performance, while reducing size and electromagnetic interference (EMI).
PV Tech

Inverters and power modules are key players in energy management – but testing methods need improvement

Damage to a relay contact after cyclic current loading. A better understanding of inverter reliability will help boost performance and reduce costs. Image: Fraunhofer IMWS. Inverters are critical to ...
pv magazine International

Two-layer phase change materials for solar module cooling

Researchers in Iran have tested four different two-layer PCMs across several cooling system configurations and have found that the payback time of the proposed cooling tech is still far from reaching ...
PV Tech

Solar module materials companies Momentive and Targray team on distribution

Two material suppliers to the photovoltaics module manufacturing market, Momentive Performance Materials and Targray Technology International have signed an agreement, whereby Targray will distribute ...