Lab member Mojtaba Edalatpour shows the thermal diode developed by Boreyko's team. Credit: Virginia Tech Electronic devices are hard to keep cool. Mechanical fans suck up energy. Heat sinks add ...

Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero at extremely low temperatures. Superconductors, materials that exhibit this ...

Linear Technology Corporation is claiming a major breakthrough with the introduction of the LT4320, an ideal diode bridge controller for 9V to 72V systems that replaces each of the four diodes in a ...

With Linear Technology’s LT4320 ideal-diode bridge controller, power supply designers can replace each of the four diodes in a conventional full-wave bridge rectifier with a low-loss N-channel MOSFET.

There are 8 different types of diodes that are available for use in electronics design. The various types of diodes enable different kinds of application specifications to be met. As a result of the ...

Replacing the silicon rectifier diodes in a full-wave bridge with N-type MOSFETs eliminates the V f drop in each conducting pair. The effects of the gain in efficiency are not trivial. To accomplish ...