ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed 4th-generation 650V IGBTs for automotive electric compressors and HV heaters, as well as inverters for industrial equipment. As automotive-grade 650V-class products, the ...

Power devices are designed for electric vehicle compressors, heaters, and industrial inverters to reduce power loss and ...

System efficiency is an important consideration when inverters are used in photovoltaic, UPS, and motor drive applications. One approach to achieving improved efficiency is to replace the usually-used ...

ROHM has introduced its fourth-generation 650V insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), designed for use in automotive ...

Designing a motor drive or inverter systems using a gate drive optocoupler driving MOSFET buffers helps to maximize IGBT gate drive design scalability from low to high power systems. Switching using ...

Toshiba's Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company has announced the launch of the TB9150FNG, an opto-isolated IGBT gate pre-driver IC with various enhanced protective functions for the ...

Cambridge GaN Devices has patented a technique for lowering losses in 100kW+ IGBT-based vehicle traction drives, at lower cost than all-silicon-carbide inverters, it said. It involves connecting GaN ...

This paper presents a novel 3-phase IGBT module called the SPM (Smart Power Module). This is a new design developed to provide a very compact, low cost, high perfor- mance and reliable motor drive ...

SemiSouth, a little-know semiconductor firm from Mississippi, is introducing high-power silicon carbide JFETs to replace silicon IGBTs and silicon mosfets in high power inverters. The firm already ...

What is a desaturation detection circuit? A desaturation fault detection circuit provides protection for power semiconductor switches (IGBT or MOSFETs) against short-circuit current events which may ...