Three years after introducing the first Tower System module, Freescale Semiconductor has achieved a milestone of more than 50 unique modules for its popular development platform. Freescale recently ...

Is maximizing power per string the only right answer? If we imagine the development of the photovoltaic (PV) industry in terms of both scale and quality as a single curve, then from the first ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) continues to carve out a place for itself in power electronics after decades of dominance by silicon. SiC-based power switches are becoming the gold standard in the three-phase ...

Point-of-load (PoL) dc/dc converters within intermediate bus power system architectures are pervasive in many applications including 3G and 4G telecom installations, high-performance blade server ...

Relationship of power density and field strength. Some of the more uncommon power-density apps. RF designers frequently need to know the true power density or field intensity at a particular distance ...

Two aspects need to be considered in the evolution of the size of PV silicon wafers: the influence of wafer size change on manufacturing costs in the industrial chain and the influence of wafer size ...

A new report form analysts at IHS Markit notes that the market for module-level power electronics (MLPE) grew by 33% between 2019 and 2021, with around one-third of new residential solar installations ...