Technical Features

March 2011

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Figure 1: The new Vicor BCM6135 enables the size and weight of an active suspension system to be reduced by half and provide symmetrical bidirectional power for highly efficiency energy recuperation.

Active Suspension Comes of Age Bolstered by High Density Power Modules

Chris Levasseur, Automotive Research Assistant, Vicor

Picture this. You are taking a trip to the city with some friends in your economy car, and you encounter an atrocious stretch of road. As you endure the bumpiest ride you have ever faced, you are passed by a sleek sedan, easily going twice your speed. ‘That can’t be comfortable’ you think to yourself, bu

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Date:

12/31/2024

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PV Off-the-Roll

Dr. Florian Schwager, Product Manager, Solar Barrier Films, Performance Polymers, Evonik

Thin-film solar cells are developing into a rapidly growing market segment. If their commercial potential is to be fully exploited, the solar modules must be produced in a roll-to-roll manufacturing

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Date:

03/24/2011

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Figure 1 - Typical wind farm configuration

Grounding Transformers

Curt Collins, Director of Sales, Pacific Crest Transformers Medford, Oregon

The grounding transformer is an often neglected component of the wind farm - shunted off to a sidebar issue. However, those who neglect to adequately plan for grounding transformers do so at their

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Date:

03/24/2011

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Figure 1: I-V characteristics of 10ms half sine pulses at different peak currents. Curve (c) is slightly above, curve (d) is far above the destruction threshold.

Surge Current Limitations

Thomas Hunger, Oliver Schilling, Frank Wolter, Thomas Schütze Infineon Technologies AG Warstein, Germany

The ability of silicon power diodes to withstand a rapid forward current load, described by its i2t-value, is an important criterion that has to be regarded in the selection of the proper devices

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Date:

03/24/2011

ITT Interconnect Solutions' EVC series connectors

Effective Contact

Ted Worroll, Product Manager, ITT Interconnect Solutions

This advanced charging in electric vehicles (EV) requires highly efficient power contacts to provide flexible functionality, with minimal modifications, across a power range from a low of 15 amps/120

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Date:

03/24/2011

Digital POL Power

Dan Tooth PhD, Field Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments

An engineer designing with FPGAs or Processors often has to provide some serious amount of power at high efficiency over load. Not only must the rails be regulated correctly and not overheat, but additional functionality may be required. Recent evaluation boards from Xilinx (ML605 and SP605) for Virtex-6 and Spart

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Date:

03/15/2011