His design and research interests include high-efficiency and high-power-density power conversion, soft-switching converters, and GaN implementation in AC/DC converters. Max obtained a master’s degree ...

The +400-V voltage makes a lot of sense because it’s already widely used in today’s data centers: The power-factor-correction (PFC) stage in most single-phase AC-DC power supplies outputs +400 ...

However, renewable energy sources, such as solar cells and batteries, generate low-voltage DC outputs (often less than 4V), while most applications require stable high-voltage AC (240V) or DC (12V ...

Researchers at Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a groundbreaking capacitorless solid-state power filter (SSPF) for DC-AC converters, addressing the limitations of traditional passive ...

Learn more about Toshiba’s star-delta switching topology for DC-DC converters, which eliminates the need for a transformer to step down a 48-V input to a 1-V output.

DC voltage also cannot be stepped up in high-voltage transmission because a transformer doesn't work on DC current, and lastly, DC current is more expensive than AC because of the higher ...