EDN

Half-bridge topology finds applications in high density power converters

Due to the ever increasing demands to drive up DC-DC power converter density, topologies that had previously been used only in high power applications are now finding their way into medium and lower ...
Business Wire

IXYS Introduces 800V Half Bridge Rectifier in a Very Small SMD Package

BIEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ: IXYS), a leader in power semiconductors and integrated circuit technologies for power management, announced today the availability of a ...
Electronic Design

Applying Synchronous Rectification in Resonant Half-Bridge Converters

Technology developed for driving synchronous FETs in flyback topologies can be directly applied in LLC topologies. This technology offers significant gains in efficiency for applications with low ...
EDN

MOSFETs: Increased Efficiency In Bridge Rectifiers

Electronic engineers know the common mantras when it comes to creating new designs: Make it cheaper. Make it smaller. Make it faster. These goals, along with technological evolution, keep most ...
Electronic Design

Half-Bridge Flyback Converters Outperform Conventional Types

Fig. 1: A conventional flyback topology experiences significant switching losses. Mladen Ivankovic is a Sr. Staff Application Engineer at Infineon A classic flyback converter stores energy as a ...
Hackaday

bridge rectifier

Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage drop. Which isn’t to say that with some effort we cannot create an ideal ...