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Global Distribution Partnership
UnitedSiC has announced a distribution agreement with Digi-Key Electronics. The partnership will provide Digi-Key customers with worldwide, 24-hour availability of UnitedSiC's Silicon Carbide product portfolio – including the only standard gate drive SiC devices currently in the market. Read more ...
unitedsic.com/news

Head of Industry Segment
LEM announces the appointment of Rebecca Cullinan as new Senior Vice President (SVP) Industry. She joined LEM in December 2019 and took over responsibilities for the Industry segment from CEO Frank Rehfeld who was appointed to that role in January 2016 before also becoming CEO in April 2018. Rebecca Cullinan's responsibilities cover the Industry segment's product management, sales & marketing, R&D, quality and operations.
lem.com

Producing High-Performance Si Power MOSFETs
SkyWater Technology and Applied Novel Devices announced the companies have entered into a licensing and manufacturing agreement to offer an improved standard process flow for Si power MOSFETs (metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors). The partnership will enable AND to bring power device products to market based on its proprietary and patented technologies and SkyWater's high volume manufacturing capabilities. Read more ...
skywatertechnology.com/press-releases

Access to Wide Range of Triacs & Thyristors
Following the signing of an exclusive deal with JJ Micro, Transonics is now holding one million triacs and thyristors in stock at its UK warehouse. Transonics' extensive UK inventory includes JJ Micro's internally-isolated tab Triacs ranging from mAs up to 40A, with sensitive data recurring currents. JJ Micro's range of Triacs extends to 1400V and products - where not held in stock - are available on a 6-8 week lead time as opposed to 20 weeks plus. Read more ...
transonics.com

Joining the Responsible Business Alliance
TDK Corporation announces that it has recently joined the Responsible Business Alliance (headquartered in Virginia, U.S.A.; hereinafter "RBA"), the world's largest industry coalition dedicated to corporate social responsibility in global supply chains. As an Affiliate Member of the RBA, TDK fully supports the vision and mission of the RBA and continuously improve its own operations in accordance with the RBA Code of Conduct. Read more ...
tdk.com/press

Silver Quill Award Winners
Indium Corporation's Silver Quill Award program recognizes individuals who have authored original technical content in the form of conference papers, articles, presentations, and blog posts. It was designed to award employees for generating leading-edge research and thought-leadership technical content that addresses issues concerning customers in the electronics industry.  Read more ...
indium.com/news

More Female Leaders Wanted
Today, 30 percent of Danfoss employees are women, but only 20 percent of leadership positions are occupied by women. Therefore, it is now becoming a focus area for the entire Danfoss global organization to ensure that the number of female leaders is increased by 50 percent. Read more ...
danfoss.com/news

European Market Monitor on Energy Storage
The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) and Delta-EE launched the fourth edition of the European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES). The report demonstrates the European market grew by a total of 1GWh in 2019, a significant slow-down compared to 2018. Front-of-meter installations slowed dramatically in 2019, while residential behind-the-meter capacity was the fastest growing market segment. Read more ...
delta-ee.com/press-releases

Power Consumption and Die Size of Power Management ICs Reduced
Tower Semiconductor announced the release of design kits for a novel 0.18um high-performance power management technology which offers over 35% power efficiency improvement and/or equivalent amount of die-area directly contributing to the die's price competitiveness. This offering enables scalable IC operation of up to 24 volts making it ideal for the world's growing consumer, industrial, automotive, and computing markets. Read more ...
towersemi.com

BEVA Europe, Munich, Germany, May 5-6 beva-alm-europe.com

Workshop on Supercapacitors, Viterbo, Italy, May 27-28 supercap.org

Sensor+Test, Nuremberg, Germany, June 23-25 sensor-test.de

Speedam, Sorrento, Italy, June 24-26 speedam.org

SEMICON China, Shanghai, China, June 27-29 semiconchina.org

CWIEME Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 30 - July 2 coilwindingexpo.com/berlin

PCIM Asia, Shanghai, China, July 1-3 pcimasia-expo.com

productronica China, Shanghai, China, July 3-5 productronica-china.com

electronica China, Shanghai, China, July 3-5 electronica-china.com

IEEE CPE-POWERENG, Set·bal, Portugal, July 8-10 cpe-powereng2020.uninova.pt

DAC, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23 dac.com

IEEE-IPFA, Singapore, July 20-23 ipfa-ieee.org

SEMICON West, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 21-23 semiconwest.org

PCIM Europe, Nuremberg, Germany, July 28-30 mesago.de/en/PCIM

SMTconnect, Nuremberg, Germany, July 28-30 mesago.de/en/SMT

CWIEME Shanghai, Shanghai, China, July 29-31 cn.coilwindingexpo.com

Thermal Management, Denver, CO, USA, August 6-7 thermalconference.com

ExpoElectronica, Moscow, Russia, August 11-13 expoelectronica.ru

SEMICON Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 11-13 semiconsea.org

World Battery Expo, Guangzhou, China, August 16-18 battery-expo.com

Solar PV World Expo, Guangzhou, China, August 16-18 pvguangzhou.com

Thermal Management Innovation, San Jose, CA, USA, August 27 battery-thermal-management-usa.com

Sinter Paste with Thermal Conductivity
Heraeus Electronics announced the launch of a sinter paste with the product name mAgic DA295A. It is a low temperature, non-pressure sintering solution and part of Heraeus' mAgic sinter pastes product series. It offers superior thermal conductivity and is suited for power applications with high operation temperatures. "We are constantly developing new die attach materials optimized for the growing demands of power semiconductors," says Dr. Klemens Brunner, President of Heraeus Electronics.
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heraeus.com/press

Dual Output IGBT / MOSFET Driver
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced an IGBT/MOSFET gate driver equipped with additional built-in functionality. The TLP5231 will simplify the design task in a wide range of applications including industrial inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), power conditioners for solar energy and motor controls. The pre-driver has a pair of outputs that are designed to drive external p-channel and n-channel MOSFETs used for current buffers.
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toshiba.semicon-storage.com/news

SiC Switching-Loss Optimized Half-Bridge Module
Richardson RFPD announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a new silicon carbide module from Wolfspeed, a Cree Company. The CAB425M12XM3 is an addition to Wolfspeed's XM3 power module platform, developed to maximize the benefits of SiC, while keeping the module and system design robust, simple and cost effective.
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richardsonrfpd.com/Products

AI-Based Soft Switching Using Inverter Reference
Pre-Switch has released first data from its Cleanwave 200kW inverter reference. Double pulse test data demonstrates that the Pre-Switch soft-switching platform – comprising the Pre-Drive3 controller board powered by the Pre-Flex FPGA, and RPG gate driver board – reduces total system switching losses by 90% or more.
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pre-switch.com

Voltage Regulators with COT Engine
Infineon Technologies introduces the IR3887M, IR3888M and IR3889M devices in its family of integrated-point-of-load voltage regulators featuring a fast constant-on-time (COT) engine. This product family is designed for today's server, base station and telecom (operating at 85°C ambient temperature) and storage applications requiring both high efficiency and high density. The IR3887M is the smallest 30 A device on the market.
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infineon.com/press

3-Phase Built-in Filter with Neutral Line
FMAD CP is the name of the latest 1-stage filter family for 3-phase systems with neutral line. Thanks to their extremely compact dimensions and high performance, the filters are ideally suited to the tight space conditions in today's machine and equipment construction. Thanks to an extended temperature range, they can also be used in critical applications. The filter family is ideally suited for devices with high EMC loads at low or medium power.
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schurter.com/Newsroom

Fan-Cooled PSU Offers a Maximum of 4000 W
Bel Power Solutions announced the expansion of their high power portfolio with the TXP4000 Series, a maximum 4000 W AC-DC power supply suitable for industrial, process and control, railway and machinery applications. The TXP4000 Series of AC-DC converters employs a PFC front-end stage and an isolated DC-DC stage to convert the 3-phase input voltage to a low DC output voltage in a broad array of industrial applications where high efficiency is a requirement, with emphasis on both reliability and long product life.
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belfuse.com/news

Controller for 5V USB-C Charging Applications
The STUSB4500L from STMicroelectronics is a small-footprint addition to the Company's USB-C controller IC family designed and certified for pure 5V sink-only applications. All mandatory features to use the USB-C connector as a 5V universal power plug are integrated, allowing designers to implement USB-C charging solutions quickly and easily without studying the standard or writing code. USB-C is rapidly becoming established as a replacement for Micro-B or Mini-B plugs, for both power and data connections, as it offers the advantages of reversible orientation and greater robustness - up to 10,000 connect/disconnect cycles.
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newsroom.st.com

700, 1200 and 1700V SBD-Based Power Modules
Microchip Technology announced its expanded portfolio of smaller, lighter and more efficient SiC power modules. Together with its broad portfolio of microcontrollers (MCUs) and analog products, Microchip serves the needs of high power system control, gate drive and power stage – supporting customers with total system solutions. Microchip's SiC family includes commercially-qualified Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD)-based power modules in 700, 1200 and 1700V variants.
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microchip.com/pressreleasepage

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