Power Management

Capacitors can provide vital ride-through (or hold-up) energy or mitigate ripple and noise in power-conversion circuits. Choosing the right type can profoundly affect a system’s overall size, cost, and performance.

Whether intended for a single car or an entire fleet of vehicles, a vehicle-tracking system requires an integrated power-management solution to reduce the tracker’s size.

Hybrid-cascode power transistors offer a convenient upgrade path from standard power MOSFETs and IGBTs when trying to leverage the performance advantages of wide-bandgap semiconductors.

A photovoltaic cell converts light energy directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon. It is defined as a device whose electrical characteristics, such as current, voltage, or resistance, vary...

Consideration of peak power requirements via careful design and battery selection can dramatically increase battery runtime and, ultimately, customer satisfaction.

ARPA-E is looking for technologies that provide long-term energy storage and those that can store renewable energy for use at any location on the grid for less than $100/kWh.

Energy harvesting is the process by which ambient energy is captured and converted into electricity for small autonomous devices, such as satellites, laptops and nodes in sensor networks without the need for battery power. Energy harvesting...