Every non-battery-powered electronic device requires converting offline ac power to some dc voltage for powering electronics. Nowadays, efficient conversion of electrical power is becoming an ...

In a monolithic design, the NCP101X merges a power MOSFET for high voltages with a current-control mode to create a low-cost, low-standby-absorption SMPS power supply. In fact, the NCP101X series of ...

On paper, electricity behaves in easy-to-understand, predictable ways. That’s mostly because the wires on the page have zero resistance and the switching times are actually zero, whereas in real life ...

One in the quest for improved energy efficiency and power quality is the use of active harmonic filter power factor correction (PFC) in switched-mode Jon Mark Hancock, Senior Applications Engineer, ...

Switchmode power supplies (SMPSs) include switching elements (MOSFETs, diodes, IGBTs, etc.) and storage components (inductors and capacitors). The way you arrange these elements together leads you to ...