Restrikes or re-ignitions occur when the dielectric strength of the open gap, during contact parting, is not great enough to withstand the recovery voltage across the open gap. With a capacitive load, ...

When a metal-casting plant, producing ductile iron castings for the automotive industry, suffered catastrophic shutdowns of both of its induction melting furnaces (see The Heat is On), the ...

Many power supplies use hold-up capacitors to keep enough energy at the full-wave or bridge rectifier output to supply a load when the rectified voltage drops and rises again at the next half-cycle of ...

With laptops continuing to slim down in form factor and tablets grabbing larger market shares as time goes on available PCB space is vanishing quickly. To fit into smaller PCB areas, power electronics ...

Transient response is a key performance parameter for the multiphase voltage regulator, especially in microprocessor applications. Conventional pulse-width modulation (PWM) schemes have delay times ...