The invention of electric diodes, which were the first devices to enable the rectification of current flux, marked the emergence of modern electronics and eventually led to worldwide revolutions in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fig. 1. Typical diode full-wave bridge. Full-wave diode bridges are found in many electronic systems (Fig. 1). At typical AC power line voltages, the drop across the diodes has little impact on the ...

When it comes to efficiency, every bit helps. Designers now are borrowing ideas from higher-power (200W and above) designs to squeeze every watt from low-power designs—50 to 200W. Consequently, the ...

Modern power conversion requires ever-increasing efficiency combined with high power density. In fact, making a small high-efficiency system means saving space and reducing energy consumption, which ...