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How2Power Today Newsletter Authors
In each issue of How2Power Today, experts from industry and academia present the latest design techniques and solutions for power conversion in a wide range of applications.
In this section, we provide some background on these authors.
 Will Abdeh
 | Will Abdeh is part of the Applications Engineering team at onsemi. In this role, he’s responsible for the marketing strategy of EV charging and factory automation, which involves launching new hardware platforms and driving new development opportunities. Will has launched several application-based hardware reference designs like Motor Development Kits and the Strata enabled H-Bridge Motor Driver kit. Will holds an MSE from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. | | Articles written by Will Abdeh in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
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| Sam Abdel-Rahman
 | Sam Abdel-Rahman is a principal application engineer with Infineon Technologies supporting and defining discrete power devices including Si, GaN and SiC for server, telecom and solar applications. Sam received his PhD and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2007 and 2005, respectively, and his bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan in 2003. | | Articles written by Sam Abdel-Rahman in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/24 | Liquid Immersion Cooling For Higher Power Density In Server Power Supplies |
| 06/15/20 | How Application-Driven Performance And Reliability Requirements Shape Design and Qualification Of GaN Power Devices |
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| Samuel Accardo
 | Samuel Accardo is a field application engineer (FAE) at KEMET. The FAE position gives him the opportunity to use the knowledge and training he gained from his degrees in electrical engineering and mass communication. Prior to joining KEMET, Sam was a student at Louisiana State University and worked as a project manager/developer for a technology company and an advertising sales manager at LSU Student Media. Sam's interest in technology comes from his desire as a child to take apart everything he owned in order to see how it worked and technology's ability to improve the quality of life. | | Articles written by Samuel Accardo in How2Power Today: |
| 03/13/20 | Determining Whether A Film Capacitor Can Handle One AC Voltage Imposed On Another |
| 07/15/19 | Verifying Safe Levels Of Hydrogen Diffusion In Wet Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors |
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| Evgenije Adzic
 | Evgenije M. Adzic received the Dipl.-Ing., M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2005, 2007 and 2014, respectively. Since 2006 Evgenije has been employed on the Faculty of Technical Sciences in the Department of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines, first as a teaching and research assistant and then from 2014 as an assistant professor. In 2014 Evgenije co-founded PERUN Technologies. His expertise includes motor drives, grid-connected converters and power electronics interfaces, while his main activities are focused on hardware and control software development. | | Articles written by Evgenije Adzic in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/16 | Open HW/SW Platform Accelerates Development Of Control Solutions For Power Electronics |
| 01/18/13 | Hardware-In-The-Loop System Eases Development And Testing Of Grid-Connected Power Electronics Applications |
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| Bilal Ahmed
 | Bilal Ahmed has more than 10 years of experience in PLC, SCADA, data acquisition, industrial automation, robotics and embedded systems. Currently he works as head of Embedded Systems and Robotics in HF Electronics. | | Articles written by Bilal Ahmed in How2Power Today: |
| 05/16/17 | Mixed-Signal Matrix IC Eases Control Of Three-Phase AC Systems |
| 04/17/17 | Programmable Devices Implement Highly Accurate Optical Tachometer |
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| Thomas Aichinger
 | Since 2012 Thomas Aichinger has been part of the SiC MOSFET technology development team at Infineon Technologies, where he currently serves as lead principal engineer for SiC development. Thomas has been serving on the technical committee of IRPS and WiPDA and is currently serving as task group co-chair within the JEDEC sub-committee JC.70.2 focusing on SiC Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductor (PECS) standards. In addition, he has contributed to more than 80 scientific publications including journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. | | Articles written by Thomas Aichinger in How2Power Today: |
| 04/14/23 | New JEDEC Guidelines Help Designers To Realistically Predict Stability Of SiC MOSFETs In Applications |
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| Sunil Akre
 | Sunil Akre, a senior member of the technical staff, joined Maxim Integrated Products in 2006. Prior to joining Maxim he Worked for C&D Technologies and Martek Power Abbott, both in the U.S., as well as for Alpha Technologies in Canada, Artesyn Technologies in Ireland, Siemens A.G. in Germany, Advanced Microcomputers in Singapore, and Aditya Power Systems in India. In 2003 he earned a Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the University College in Cork, Ireland and in 1986, an undergraduate Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications from Govt. College of Engineering in Pune, India. | | Articles written by Sunil Akre in How2Power Today: |
| 02/19/10 | Small-signal Analysis, Modeling and Design of a Synchronous Buck-Converter in Voltage-Mode Control |
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| Arnold Alderman
 | Arnold Alderman is the founder and president of Anagenesis, a technical marketing consultancy in Los Angeles, Calif. Arnold has been a presenter at, and an organizing member of the PSMA and IEEE/PELS sponsored PwrSoC Workshop series since 2008 and general chair in 2014. Arnold is also a presenter and organizing member of the upcoming PSMA sponsored 3D Power Electronics Integration and Manufacturing (3D-PEIM) Symposium, covering heterogeneous integration. Arnold has 19 years of experience as a technical marketing consultant assisting companies from start-ups to major international conglomerates. | |
| Don Alfano
 | Don Alfano serves as director of power products at Silicon Laboratories. Prior to Silicon Laboratories, Don was co-founder and vice president of marketing for Cygnal Integrated Products, which was acquired by Silicon Laboratories in 2003. Prior to founding Cygnal, he worked for TelCom Semiconductor, an analog and mixed-signal IC supplier, where he served as director of marketing and director of applications. Previously, Don served as vice president of marketing for NVE, Eastern area manager for Dallas Semiconductor and field applications engineer for Mostek. He has also held design engineering positions for analog and digital control equipment and telecommunication systems. Don holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University. | | Articles written by Don Alfano in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/10 | Digital Isolators: A Space-Saving Alternative to Gate-Drive Transformers in DC-DC Converters |
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| Jim Aliberti
 | Jim Aliberti is a product marketing engineer for Computing Power Products at Texas Instruments where he is responsible for marketing products for CPU Core and POL power in a broad range of computing applications. | | Articles written by Jim Aliberti in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/13 | How To Match The DDR Memory Power Solution To The Application |
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| C. Appere
 | Cédric Appere joined STMicroelectronics in Tours, France in 2000 and currently serves as a telecom application engineer. Cédric is a graduate of Ecole Centrale d'Electronique. | | Articles written by C. Appere in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/10 | Integrated Protection and Careful Layout Protect PoE Systems from EOS and ESD |
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| Thilanga Ariyarathna
 | Thilanga Ariyarathna is currently studying for his Ph.D. degree at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, developing an offline SCALDO-based high-current dc power supply. His research interests include dc-dc converters, supercapacitor-assisted applications and distributed systems. Ariyarathna received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in statistics and computer science from the University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, in 2008. He pursued his M.Sc. degree in computer science from University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2012. | | Articles written by Thilanga Ariyarathna in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | Circumventing Loss In An RC Circuit Leads To More Efficient Power Converters |
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| Hector F. Arroyo
 | Hector F. Arroyo holds a BSEE degree with a major in Electronics and Communications from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) in Mexico City. Hector joined National Semiconductor in 1997 and since then has held various positions in the applications, sales and technical marketing areas. Since 2005 he has been a senior field applications engineer and a staff field applications engineer in San Diego for local southern California markets as well as for Latin America on selected technologies such as LED lighting. | | Articles written by Hector F. Arroyo in How2Power Today: |
| 06/24/11 | Tapped Inductors Enable Simple, Compact Buck-Boost Converters With Single Noninverting Or Dual, Complementary Outputs |
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| Bernhard Auinger
 | Bernhard Auinger is staff scientist and head of the research unit “Electromagnetic Compatibility and Coexistence” in the Austria-based research center Silicon Austria Labs. He focuses on enabling the paradigm shift in electronics for “design EMC first time right” employing model-based design and leading edge measurement technology. | | Articles written by Bernhard Auinger in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Advanced Scopes And Probes Help Optimize SMPS Gate Drives For EMC |
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| Agasthya Ayachit
 | Agasthya Ayachit received his B.E degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India in 2009 and M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University in 2011. Currently, he is working as a lecturer at Penn State Erie—The Behrend College. His research interests are in resonant and PWM dc-dc power converters, modeling and control of dc-dc converters, and energy harvesting. | | Articles written by Agasthya Ayachit in How2Power Today: |
| 12/22/11 | Power Electronic Circuitry In LED Modules: An Overview |
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| Jon Azurza Anderson
 | Since 2021, Jon Azurza Anderson has served as the senior staff engineer at Infineon Technologies Austria where he is part of the Systems Innovations Lab, working on novel topology, modulation and control methods. He has authored and co-authored more than 15 scientific publications and has several international patent applications pending. Jon received his B.Sc. degree in industrial technology engineering from TECNUN School of Engineering of the University of Navarra, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. | |
| David Baba
 | David Baba serves as a senior applications engineering manager at Texas Instruments where he has over 25 years of experience in dc-dc power-supply design. He holds a bachelor of engineering (BEng (hons)) degree from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. | | Articles written by David Baba in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/24 | Using Single-Phase Online Design Calculator To Analyze Stability Of Interleaved Power Stage Designs |
| 05/13/22 | Adjust The Output Of An Inverting Buck-Boost Regulator Without Level Shifting |
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| Ashwin Badrinarayanan
 | Ashwin Badrinarayanan joined Maxim Integrated as an applications engineer in 2012. He remains focused on new product activities and helping customers solve real-world design challenges in signal chain domain. He has an MSEE from University of Texas at Dallas. | | Articles written by Ashwin Badrinarayanan in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/21 | A Four-Decade, Integrated Current-Sensing Solution With Extended Supply Range |
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| Bonnie Baker
 | Bonnie Baker is an electronics engineer who has written three analog design books, starting with A Baker’s Dozen: Real Analog Solutions for Digital Engineering (2005). In past roles, Burr-Brown, Microchip, Texas Instruments, and Maxim Integrated facilitated her involvement in analog design and analog systems for the last 30+ years. Bonnie holds a master’s of science in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. In addition to her analog design fascination, Bonnie has a drive to share her knowledge and experience through the authorship of over 500 articles, design notes, and application notes. | | Articles written by Bonnie Baker in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/19 | Sense Current Over A Wider Range For Better Battery Management |
| 12/18/18 | Need Uninterrupted Power? Let A Supercapacitor Come To The Rescue |
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| Ramesh Balasubramaniam
 | Ramesh Balasubramaniam joined International Rectifier (IR) in April 2011 through International Rectifier’s acquisition of CHiL Semiconductor. After an initial assignment in strategic business development, Ramesh was tasked to provide marketing and business leadership for the Point of Load product group within the Enterprise Power Business Unit. In this role, Ramesh works closely with cross functional groups to define product roadmaps and strategies, bring products to market and drive sales and business growth. Ramesh has over 20 years of experience in the power management industry including positions at Semtech, Seagate Technology and Philips Semiconductors (now NXP). Prior to joining IR, Ramesh led the digital power controllers marketing effort at CHiL Semiconductor. Ramesh has Masters degrees from the University of Southampton (UK) and the University of Glasgow (UK). | | Articles written by Ramesh Balasubramaniam in How2Power Today: |
| 06/14/13 | Circuit And Packaging Innovations Plus Latest MOSFETs Optimize DC-DC Converters For Space-Constrained Designs |
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| Alan Ball
 | Alan Ball has 35 years experience in switching power supply design and analysis. His career has encompassed both military and commercial power supply design. For the past fifteen years, Alan has been involved with applications support for semiconductor products, working for ON Semiconductor where he has held various application engineering positions. Alan is currently the technical director of engineering for the Digital Consumers Group at ON Semiconductor. Previously, Alan worked for Power Paragon as an engineering manager and general manager of the Airborne Power division. He holds a BSEE from Arizona State University, and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. Alan holds approximately 25 patents. | | Articles written by Alan Ball in How2Power Today: |
| 09/28/12 | Maximize The Efficiency Of Induction Heating By Minimizing IGBT Losses |
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| Didier Balocco
 | Didier Balocco currently serves as the business marketing engineer for Europe at ON Semiconductor. He came to ON through the company’s acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor, which he joined in 2014 as a field application engineer (FAE) supporting the south of France, Spain and Portugal.Previously, Didier worked at AEG Power Solutions, formerly Alcatel Converters, as a research engineer for dc-dc and ac-dc converter design in a range of 1 W to 1 kW, mainly for telecom equipment. While at this company, he also managed the research activities. Among his projects, Didier worked on a 15-kW solar inverter module for a 150-kW cabinet in Dallas, Texas, USA. Didier has published more than 10 papers on power electronics and holds one patent. Didier received his engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique et de RadioÉlectricité de Bordeaux, France and his Ph. D. degree in power electronics from the University of Bordeaux. | | Articles written by Didier Balocco in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
| 02/15/21 | Demystifying Three-Phase PFC Topologies |
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| Thomas Barbieri
 | Thomas Barbieri has spent the past 14 years of his career filling various roles within the semiconductor industry, He started with Freescale Semiconductor, where he acted as a process engineer for MEMS sensors and as a failure analysis engineer/materials characterization specialist supporting all semiconductor products. For the last 8 years, Tom has been with Cree, having served as an R&D scientist with the Materials business unit and a product engineer with the LED Components business unit, prior to joining Cree Power as a marketing engineer.
Prior experience included an assistant professorship in the Physics Department of Simmons College. Tom received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University in 1999. | | Articles written by Thomas Barbieri in How2Power Today: |
| 08/17/15 | Understanding Evolution Of SiC Schottkys Is Key To Device Selection |
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| David Baretich
 | David Baretich is an electrical engineer and consultant to ProGrAnalog. He has 38 years’ experience in power conversion, working at companies such as Texas Instruments, MicroPlanet, ON Semiconductor, Tektronix and Biamp Systems. An IEEE member, David holds 10 U.S. patents. He received a BSEE from Iowa State University. | | Articles written by David Baretich in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/22 | Slammers And Software Verify Performance Of Advanced Voltage Regulators |
| 10/15/18 | Optimizing Regulator Output Capacitance (Part 3): Analyzing Load Slammer Results |
| 09/14/18 | Optimizing Regulator Output Capacitance (Part 2): Using Load Slammers |
| 08/16/18 | Optimizing Regulator Output Capacitance (Part 1): Selecting Load Slammers |
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| Heidi Barnes
 | Heidi Barnes is a senior application engineer and Power Integrity Product Owner for High Speed Digital applications in the Design Engineering Software Group of Keysight Technologies. Her recent activities include the application of electromagnetic, transient, and channel simulators to solve signal and power integrity challenges. Heidi is the author of over 20 papers on SI and PI, active member in developing the new IEEE P370 Standard involving interconnect S-parameter quality after fixture removal, and recipient of the DesignCon 2017 Engineer of the Year. Heidi holds five patents, and was awarded the NASA Silver Snoopy for her work on hydrogen fire and gas detection. Heidi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology. | | Articles written by Heidi Barnes in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/21 | Why EM Is Replacing SPICE For Simulation Of Board-Level Power Delivery |
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| Christophe Basso
 | Christophe Basso is a business development manager with Future Electronics, a member of the power team and covering EMEA. Previously, he was a technical fellow with ON Semiconductor for 24 years where he originated numerous integrated circuits. SPICE simulation is also one of his favorite subjects and he has authored two books on the subject. Christophe’s latest work is “Transfer Functions of Switching Converters: Fast Analytical Techniques at Work with Small-Signal Analysis”. Christophe received a BSEE-equivalent from the Montpellier University, France and an MSEE from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. He holds 25 patents on power conversion and often publishes papers in conferences and trade magazines. | | Articles written by Christophe Basso in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/24 | Deriving The Control-To-Output Transfer Function Of The Weinberg Converter |
| 07/15/22 | IC Simplifies Analog Control Of The Totem-Pole PFC Stage |
| 02/15/22 | Back To Basics: Stabilizing Your Power Factor Correction Stage |
| 12/15/21 | Modern Control Methods For LLC Converters Simplify Compensator Design |
| 01/15/21 | Simulation Demonstrates Impact Of Current-Loop Crossover Frequency On Stability |
| 07/15/20 | Analysis, Simulation And Experimentation Enable Successful Design Of Power Supply Compensation |
| 06/17/19 | Closing The Loop Of An Active-Clamp Forward Converter |
| 05/15/18 | Analyzing The Effect of Voltage Drops On The DC Transfer Function Of The Buck Converter |
| 02/17/17 | Understanding Op Amp Dynamic Response In A Type-2 Compensator (Part 2): The Two Poles |
| 01/15/17 | Understanding Op Amp Dynamic Response In A Type-2 Compensator (Part 1): The Open-Loop Gain |
| 01/15/16 | Modeling The Effects of Leakage Inductance On Flyback Converters (Part 3): The Small-Signal Model |
| 12/17/15 | Modeling The Effects of Leakage Inductance On Flyback Converters (Part 2): The Average Model |
| 11/16/15 | Modeling The Effects of Leakage Inductance On Flyback Converters (Part 1): Converter Switching |
| 04/15/14 | The Small-Signal Model Of An Active-Clamp Forward Converter (Part 3): Active-Clamp Forward Converter Transfer Function |
| 03/14/14 | The Small-Signal Model Of An Active-Clamp Forward Converter (Part 2): Active-Clamp Forward Converter Operation |
| 02/14/14 | The Small-Signal Model of An Active-Clamp Forward Converter (Part 1): Basics of The Forward Converter And Its Transfer Function |
| 03/15/13 | Simplified Analysis Of A DCM Boost Converter Driving An LED String Part II: Practical Considerations |
| 02/15/13 | Simplified Analysis Of A DCM Boost Converter Driving An LED String Part I: Theoretical Analysis |
| 01/31/11 | The Over-Power Phenomenon in DCM/CCM-Operated Flyback Converters (Part 4): The Leakage Inductor Contribution |
| 12/16/10 | The Over-Power Phenomenon in DCM/CCM-Operated Flyback Converters (Part 3): Quasi Square-Wave Resonant Mode |
| 11/23/10 | The Over-Power Phenomenon in DCM/CCM-Operated Flyback Converters (Part 2): Fixed-Frequency CCM Operation |
| 10/22/10 | The Over-Power Phenomenon In DCM/CCM-Operated Flyback Converters (Part 1) |
| 12/15/09 | Loop Control: Hand Calculations Or Automation? |
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| Ali M. Bazzi
 | Ali M. Bazzi received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering in June 2006 (with high distinction), and the M.E. degree in electrical engineering in July 2007 from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Since August 2007, he has been pursuing the Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.His research interests are power electronics applications in motor drives and renewable energy, mainly in the fields of control and optimization. He was the conference director of the 2010 Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, and is currently the chair of the IEEE PELS/PES joint Student Chapter at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a student member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and IEEE Industry Applications Society, and IEEE Power and Energy Society. | | Articles written by Ali M. Bazzi in How2Power Today: |
| 06/29/10 | Comprehensive Flux Estimator Implementation Procedures For Advanced Control Of Inverter-Fed Induction Machines |
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| Jared Becker
 | Jared Becker is an analog field applications engineer for Texas Instruments. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. | | Articles written by Jared Becker in How2Power Today: |
| 08/16/18 | Boost Converter Optimizes Motor Performance In Battery-Powered Applications |
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| Bob Bell
 | Robert (Bob) Bell is the applications engineering manager for the National Semiconductor design center in Phoenix, Ariz. Products designed at the Phoenix design center include integrated switching regulators, next-generation PWM power controllers, gate drivers, and hot-swap and load-share controllers. He has been with National Semiconductor since September 2001. Prior to joining National, Bob designed power converters for military and space applications. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University. To date he has published 25 power design articles, 8 conference papers and 3 patents. | | Articles written by Bob Bell in How2Power Today: |
| 06/14/13 | Boost Power Converters Finally Get Some Respect! |
| 03/30/10 | Digital Isolators: A Space-Saving Alternative to Gate-Drive Transformers in DC-DC Converters |
| 01/26/10 | Increase Boost Regulator Efficiency With Synchronous Rectification |
| 09/17/09 | Frequency Dithering: A Tool for Overcoming Last-Minute EMC Hurdles |
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| Dakshina Murthy Bellur
 | Dakshina Murthy Bellur received his BE degree in electrical engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, India, and MS from Wright State University, Dayton, OH in 2003, and 2006, respectively. He is currently pursuing PhD at Wright State University. His areas of interest are PWM dc-dc converters, resonant power converters, high-frequency magnetics, and renewable energy systems. | | Articles written by Dakshina Murthy Bellur in How2Power Today: |
| 02/19/10 | An Overview and Simulation of DC-DC-AC and Z-Source Grid Connected Inverters |
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| Salah Ben Doua
 | Salah Ben Doua, principle applications engineer, has 30 years of experience in the field of power design and has been supporting Vicor customers for over 20 years, providing expertise and advice in the development of dc-dc and ac-dc power systems in a multitude of areas, including aerospace and defense, industrial, rail, lighting and communications. Salah received a Ph.D. from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, specializing in power conversion. | | Articles written by Salah Ben Doua in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/22 | Radiation-Tolerant Power Electronic Systems Are Hard To Design |
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| John Bendel
 | John Bendel is power systems engineer at Element Energy. John is a power electronics industry veteran with extensive experience in applying system knowledge in a business context. He has worked as a senior vice president at Fairchild Semiconductor running the Low-Voltage Business Group addressing the computer, mobile and industrial markets. He has also worked as an individual contributor in application and design work for Lockheed-Martin and Siliconix addressing the aerospace and automotive markets. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Davis. | | Articles written by John Bendel in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/14 | Cascode Configuration Eases Challenges Of Applying SiC JFETs In Switching Inductive Loads |
| 12/20/12 | Hardware-Software Architecture Improves Performance Of Large, Battery-Powered Systems |
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| Kiran Bernard
 | Kiran Bernard is a product marketing specialist at Renesas Electronics America where he is responsible for roadmap development in Renesas’ Radiation Hardened Communications product line for the Intersil family of power management products. He has supported the space and high reliability markets for 12 years and holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Central Florida with a focus in power electronics. | | Articles written by Kiran Bernard in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/22 | SEE Testing On GaN FETs—Interpreting Results For Space Power Applications |
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| Andy Berry
 | Andy Berry is the principal product modeling engineer at Nexperia where his main focus is on modeling power semiconductor devices, especially for aiding the design and simulation of dc-dc converters and BLDC motor systems. Andy has been working in power electronics and semiconductors for 13 years, has a master's degree in electronic engineering and is working towards a PhD in power semiconductors. | | Articles written by Andy Berry in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/22 | Electrothermal Models Predict Power MOSFET Performance More Accurately |
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| John Betten
 | John Betten is an applications engineer and a senior member of Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments, and has more than 29 years of ac-dc and dc-dc power conversion design experience. John received his BSEE from the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the IEEE. | | Articles written by John Betten in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/14 | Synchronous Zeta Converter Outperforms The SEPIC |
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| Anup Bhalla
 | Anup Bhalla is VP of Engineering at UnitedSiC where he oversees all product development at UnitedSiC and became an investor in the company when he joined in 2012. Prior to joining UnitedSiC, Anup held various product development and marketing positions at Alpha and Omega Semiconductor where he was a co-founder of the company. He is the author or co-author of nearly 100 patents through his career at Harris, Vishay Siliconix, AOS, and UnitedSiC. Anup received his bachelors’ degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, both in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Anup Bhalla in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Versatile SiC JFETs Benefit Power Switching And Circuit Protection Applications |
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| Giuseppina Bille
 | Giuseppina Bille’ has been with STMicroelectronics in Catania, Italy since 1998. She works as an analog IC design engineer developing voltage regulators and power management products. Bille’ received a degree in electronics from Catania University. | | Articles written by Giuseppina Bille in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/14 | Bandgap Voltage Reference Achieves High Performance At Low Supply Voltages |
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| Ashok Bindra
 | Ashok Bindra is a veteran writer and editor with more than 25 years of editorial experience covering RF/wireless technologies, semiconductors and power electronics. He has written, both for print and the web, for leading electronics trade publications in the U.S, including Electronics, EETimes, Electronic Design and RF Design. Presently, he has his own technical writing company called Technika through which he does writing projects for different trade publications and vendors. Prior to becoming an editor, Bindra worked in industry as an electronics engineer. He holds an M.S. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson College of Technology (now Clarkson University) in Potsdam, NY, and an M.Sc (Physics) from the University of Bombay, India. He can be reached by email at bindra1[at]verizon.net. | | Articles written by Ashok Bindra in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/13 | GaN Suppliers Continue to Push the Performance Envelope |
| 09/16/13 | GaN Power Modules Promise to Raise the Performance Bar |
| 08/15/13 | Transitioning To SiC-Based Devices Is Not That Simple |
| 06/15/13 | GaN Power Devices Transition To Production Phase |
| 05/15/13 | As Applications Emerge, SiC Technology Charts A Growth Path |
| 04/15/13 | Summit Showcases GaN Developments For Improving EVs, Lighting, And Solar Power |
| 03/15/13 | High-Voltage SiC Devices Aim To Revolutionize Utility-Scale Power Conversion |
| 02/15/13 | APEC 2013 Demos Announce The Emergence Of GaN-based Power Solutions |
| 01/17/13 | APEC 2013 To Reveal Latest Advances In Power Semiconductor Devices |
| 12/20/12 | GaN-on-Si Based FETs Foster New Applications |
| 11/21/12 | As All-SiC Module Emerges, GaN Powers Server Supplies |
| 05/24/12 | RFMD Leverages RF GaN Capability To Build Power HEMTs |
| 03/30/12 | As GaN Power Preps For Production, More Suppliers Enter The Fray |
| 05/27/11 | GaN Transistors Make Inroads Commercially While Technology Expands To Higher Voltages |
| 04/29/11 | Emerging High-Voltage Apps Accelerate Silicon Carbide Growth |
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| Carl Blake
 | Carl Blake is vice president of marketing at Transphorm. Blake began his career with Raytheon as a power systems design engineer, gaining experience in power supply, RF and logic design. Over the next 19 years, he progressed through many levels of the organization before moving to the semiconductor industry in 1991, bringing customer understanding to the new product definition process. Blake has successfully launched hundreds of new products and technologies in the power industry. In addition, he served as co-chair of the Technology Roadmap committee of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA), and was recently elected as PSMA president. Blake received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering summa cum laude at the University of New Haven. | | Articles written by Carl Blake in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/16 | Clearing Up Confusion About GaN Power Transistors (Part 2): Proving Power GaN Reliability |
| 03/15/16 | Clearing Up Confusion About GaN Power Transistors (Part 1): Marketer, Scientist Or Engineer--”Who Should You Believe? |
| 04/15/13 | GaN Power Devices Slash Size, Raise Efficiency Of 4-kW Solar Inverter |
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| Joe Bond
 | Joseph A. Bond is currently the operations and engineering manager at Electronic Concepts (ECI) where he has worked since 1994. In his role as operations manager for ECI’s corporate headquarters, he oversees the primary design and production facility in New Jersey, while as the engineering manager for ECI New Jersey, he manages product design, process design, and production engineering. Bond also serves as general manager of the ECI Film Division in Massachusetts, corporate officer (secretary) for Energy Storage Corporation; and materials research director for new polymer dielectric development. Bond has published a number of papers and presentations on film capacitors and holds one patent. He is also a member of multiple engineering-focused organizations including IEEE, CPES, WEMPEC, and DOE Freedom car development. Bond has completed coursework in electrical engineering at Monmouth University and in civil engineering at Virginia Tech. He also holds a degree in business management from University of Phoenix. | | Articles written by Joe Bond in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/15 | Film Capacitors For High Temperature Switches And Power Electronics Applications Above 125°C* |
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| Cyril Borchard
 | Cyril Borchard is a product marketing engineer responsible for rectifiers in the power segment at STMicroelectronics, France. He was previously in charge of marketing activities for rectifiers, protections, IPAD, thyristors and triacs in the consumer segment. In that scope, Cyril Borchard participated as marketing representative in the development of dedicated rectifiers for flat-panel displays (LCD and PDP) as well as specific protections and IPAD for consumer applications such as HDMI. Cyril Borchard holds a degree in Microelectronics and Automation from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montpellier. | | Articles written by Cyril Borchard in How2Power Today: |
| 01/26/10 | PFC Efficiency Improvement Using SiC Power Schottky Rectifiers |
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| Vipin Bothra
 | Vipin Bothra is product marketing manager at STMicroelectronics based in Schaumburg, Ill. Over the years Vipin has held many roles at ST in application, marketing and technical marketing. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from VNIT, India. Vipin’s technical experience includes designing various applications in power conversion such as digital power supplies, drivers for LED lamps, high-efficiency solar inverters and PFCs. The Triac-dimmable offline LED driver was developed by Vipin and his team and received a patent in 2008. Vipin has authored many publications in technical publications around the world and has actively participated in many regulatory and standard-setting bodies in the U.S. | | Articles written by Vipin Bothra in How2Power Today: |
| 10/25/12 | Process, Packaging Combine To Advance High-Voltage Power MOSFETs |
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| John Bottrill
 | John Bottrill is a senior applications engineer at Texas Instruments in Manchester, NH. John supports customers and evaluates new ICs before release. In doing so, he has produced more than 20 technical papers and has two patents to his credit. He received his B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. You can reach John at ti_johnbottrill@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by John Bottrill in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/12 | How To Correct Voltage Imbalance In Half-Bridge Converters Under Current-Mode Control |
| 02/28/11 | Primary-Side Current Monitoring Won’t Stop Overcurrents In DCM-Operated Flybacks |
| 07/24/09 | Don't Let Jitter Shake Up Your Flyback Converter Designs |
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| David Bour
 | David Bour, chief scientist and head of MOCVD at Avogy has worked for nearly 30 years on semiconductor electronics and optoelectronics, and metal organic chemical vapor deposition, including UV-blue-green GaN-based LEDs and laser diodes, red AlGaInP lasers, telecommunication devices, strained quantum well lasers, mid-IR quantum cascade lasers, heterojunction bipolar transistors, and photovoltaic devices. Before Avogy, Bour was the chief technology officer of Applied Materials’ Solid State Lighting Division and held positions at BridgeLux, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Electronic Materials Laboratory, Alta Devices, and Agilent Laboratories. Bour received a B.S. degree in Physics from MIT in 1983 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1987. His research is documented in more than 200 publications and 90 U.S. patents; and he is a fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to the growth and understanding of quantum well lasers. | | Articles written by David Bour in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Vertical Devices In Bulk GaN Drive Diode Performance To Near - Theoretical L imits |
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| Oliver Brennan
 | Oliver Brennan is a senior IC design engineer with Analog Devices where has worked for 12 years. He currently works on Power Management Products. Previously, Oliver worked on data converters. | | Articles written by Oliver Brennan in How2Power Today: |
| 09/17/09 | Switching-Regulator Insights: Achieving Longer Battery Life in DSP Systems |
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| Tu Bui
 | Tu Bui is the applications engineering manager for Industrial and Infrastructure Products at Intersil. He is responsible for switching regulator product development and all related customer applications support. Prior to joining Intersil, Bui was a member of technical staff design engineer at AT&T Bell Labs, where he developed and released more than twenty world-class products and product families. Bui holds a BSEE from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University. | | Articles written by Tu Bui in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/15 | Output Tracking And Sequencing Improve FPGA Reliability |
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| Tom Bui
 | Tom Bui is a principal member of Technical Staff of Core Products at Maxim Integrated, where he’s responsible for managing and developing technical content for all products within the Core Products business unit. With more than 12 years at Maxim Integrated, he has held positions as an applications engineer, product manager, and business manager. | | Articles written by Tom Bui in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/19 | How Ulta-Low IQ Boost Converters Extend IoT Device Runtime |
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| Stéphanie Cannenterre
 | Stéphanie Cannenterre has been an application engineer at ON Semiconductor in Toulouse, France since 2006. In this role, she has developed several controllers and ASICS mainly for flyback converters. She has developed the NCL3008X controller family dedicated to LED lighting. She is currently developing controllers for single-stage PSR CC/CV converter still dedicated to LED lighting to further extend the NCL3008X family. Stéphanie graduated from the INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) engineering school in Toulouse with an MSEE degree. She holds five patents on power conversion. | | Articles written by Stéphanie Cannenterre in How2Power Today: |
| 03/21/18 | Estimating Output Current Tolerance Of A Primary–Side-Regulated Constant-Current Flyback Converter (Part 3): Extreme Value Analysis And Sensitivity Analysis |
| 02/16/18 | Estimating Output Current Tolerance Of A Primary–Side-Regulated Constant-Current Flyback Converter (Part 2): Monte Carlo Analysis |
| 01/15/18 | Estimating Output Current Tolerance Of A Primary–Side-Regulated Constant-Current Flyback Converter (Part 1): The Analytical Model |
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| Frank Cathell
 | Frank Cathell has been a senior applications engineer with ON Semiconductor for over 6 years. Frank has worked in the power electronics industry for over 35 years and has obtained several patents for power conversion circuits and has written numerous articles and/or papers on the subject. Frank’s previous employment has included Lambda Electronics, International Power Systems, Maxwell Laboratories, Tectrol Inc. and others in addition to his own past consulting business. | | Articles written by Frank Cathell in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/10 | Power Supply Topology Selection--It's Not Just About Power |
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| Nikola Celanovic
 | Nikola L. Celanovic received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad in 1995, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2000. From 2000 to 2005 Nikola was with the ABB Research Centre in Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland and from 2005 to 2008 with the ABB Drives Development Department, Turgi, Switzerland. Since 2008 Nikola has been the CEO and co-founder of Typhoon HIL in Baden, Switzerland. | | Articles written by Nikola Celanovic in How2Power Today: |
| 01/18/13 | Hardware-In-The-Loop System Eases Development And Testing Of Grid-Connected Power Electronics Applications |
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| Jennifer Cheney
 | Jennifer Cheney is a senior applications engineer at Keithley Instruments, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, which is part of the Tektronix test and measurement portfolio. Cheney earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has been assisting Keithley customers with instrument applications since 2001. | | Articles written by Jennifer Cheney in How2Power Today: |
| 03/13/15 | Interface Panel Addresses Special Connection Challenges In On-Wafer Testing Of Power Semiconductor Devices |
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| Ada Cheng
 | Ada Cheng has extensive semiconductor and marketing expertise and experience. She has briefed many managers, sales professionals, and executives on various aspects of the semiconductor market. Cheng is currently a principal marketing consultant with AdaClock. Prior to AdaClock, Ada was a senior corporate marketing manager at International Rectifier, and before that, a principal analyst with Gartner Dataquest covering the analog semiconductor market. Moreover, she has served as an invited member of the APEC conference committee as the OEM Initiative Chair. In addition, she is on the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) board of directors since 2019. | |
| Ron Chiang
 | Ron Chiang is the R&D director of Enargy Power Corp. based in the China Design Center in Shenzhen. Chiang has more than a decade of experience in dc-dc and ac-dc power supply design. Prior to joining Enargy, Ron was R&D manager with Emerson Network Power (now Artesyn Embedded Power) where under his leadership, more than 300 products were developed for telecom, medical, industrial and consumer applications. Chiang has a masters degree in power electronics from ZheJiang University. | | Articles written by Ron Chiang in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/16 | Medical AC-DC Power Supplies Are Becoming More Specialized |
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| Arthur Chiang
 | Arthur Chiang currently holds the position of director of reliability engineering for Vishay Intertechnology. He is a member of IEEE, AEC, JEDEC, and EDFAS, and holds numerous patents in emission microscopy and power diodes. Mr. Chiang holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. | | Articles written by Arthur Chiang in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/12 | Failure Analysis On Power MOSFETs With Copper Wire Bonds |
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| Dhruv Chopra
 | Dhruv Chopra currently works as senior applications engineer for the AC-DC Group at ON Semiconductor. Dhruv joined ON Semiconductor as an applications engineer in December 2013. Previously, Dhruv was an R&D engineer at Tribi Systems Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India. Dhruv holds a masters in science (MS) in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and a bachelors of technology (ECE) from GGSIP University India. | | Articles written by Dhruv Chopra in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/18 | Driver IC Subdues Level-Shifting Losses In Active Clamp Flybacks And Other Applications |
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| Vijay Choudhary
 | Vijay Choudhary is an applications engineer at National Semiconductor's Phoenix Design Center. At National Semiconductor, Vijay has worked on wireless charging and power management ICs for mobile devices. He currently works on isolated and nonisolated switching converters for industrial applications. Vijay has a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Master of Science and PhD from Arizona State University. Vijay has written several papers, application notes, and articles in the field of power management. | | Articles written by Vijay Choudhary in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/13 | Synchronous Buck Converter Enables Multiple Bias Rails And Input Voltage Sensing For Isolated Applications |
| 05/27/11 | Simple Stepdown Regulator Generates Multiple Voltage Rails With Good Efficiency and Regulation |
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| André Christmann
 | Since tranferring to Infineon North America in 2011, André Christmann has served as system application engineer in the area of high-voltage power semiconductors. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2011, he was responsible for the development of power semiconductor modules for electrical applications in vehicles at Infineon Technologies AG in Warstein, Germany. During this time André led the HybridPACK power module development, which is now an industry-wide standard footprint for automotive power semiconductor modules. Before joining Infineon, André worked for three years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in the area of power semiconductor development. He holds a PhD in Plasma and High-Temperature Physics from Ruhr University Bochum. | | Articles written by André Christmann in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/17 | Boosting Efficiency, Reliability And Affordability Of EV-Drivetrain Power Modules |
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| Brian Chu
 | Brian Chu is product marketing director for Infineon’s Industrial Power Control (IPC) business group. He is responsible for the Intelligent Power Module (IPM) product roadmap and strategies. Prior to joining Infineon, Brian held positions in both architect and applications engineering and product marketing for Microchip Technology and has led product marketing teams for power management and motor drive products where he is also responsible for driving worldwide analog power business. Brian holds an MS in electrical engineering from the University at Buffalo and an MBA from Dallas Baptist University. | | Articles written by Brian Chu in How2Power Today: |
| 03/21/18 | Power Stage Strategies For Motor Control In Home Appliance Design |
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| Aamir Hussain Chughtai
 | Aamir Hussain Chughtai is currently a Ph.D. student specializing in electrical engineering at LUMS, Lahore. His interests include signal processing, artificial intelligence and power electronics. He also provides services for app notes development to Dialog Semiconductor. Aamir received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from UET, Lahore and M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from LUMS, Lahore. Aamir can be contacted at chughtaiah@gmail.com. | | Articles written by Aamir Hussain Chughtai in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/19 | Configurable IC Simplifies Control Of Animated LED Turn Signals |
| 10/15/18 | Random PWM Quiets Noise And Reduces Emissions In Three-Phase Inverter Applications |
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| Steve Clemente
 | Steve Clemente joined International Rectifier (IR) in 1980, after working in the Numerical Control Division of General Electric and the Corporate R&D of Westinghouse. In his 30+ years at IR, Clemente has held several managerial positions in Applications, R&D and Systems Engineering. | | Articles written by Steve Clemente in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/13 | Enhanced Web Tool Speeds IGBT Selection, Matching Device To The Application |
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| Ken Coffman
 | Ken Coffman is a senior field applications engineer working for Vicor, assigned to Vicor’s New Space Initiative. One of his side hustles is publishing technical books at Faraday Press, an imprint of Stairway Press. Among the titles that may be familiar to readers of How2Power Today are “Power Distribution Network Design Methodologies: The Faraday Press Edition” co-written and edited by István Novák, “Transfer Functions of Switching Converters” by Christophe Basso, and “Switched-Mode Power Supply Simulation with SPICE” by Steve Sandler. | | Articles written by Ken Coffman in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/22 | Radiation-Tolerant Power Electronic Systems Are Hard To Design |
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| Wilmer Companioni
 | Wilmer Companioni is passionate about bringing engaging and entertaining technical messaging to the industry in which he has chosen to dedicate his career. He has over 10 years in electronics design and over seven years combined in sales and marketing, including the last five at KEMET tackling various roles in technical marketing. | | Articles written by Wilmer Companioni in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/19 | Verifying Safe Levels Of Hydrogen Diffusion In Wet Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors |
| 01/16/19 | MLCC Shortages—Polymer Electrolytics Can Help |
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| Don Corey
 | Don Corey joined Maxim Integrated in 2006 and is a principal member of technical staff, field applications. He has over 30 years of analog electronic design experience. He got his BSEE from Central New England College. | | Articles written by Don Corey in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/15 | Choose The Right Regulator For The Right Job (Part 1) |
| 02/15/15 | Choose The Right Regulator For The Right Job (Part 2) |
| 02/15/15 | Choose The Right Regulator For The Right Job (Part 3) |
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| Daniel Costinett
 | Daniel Costinett is currently a co-director of education and diversity for the National Science Foundation/Department of Energy Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT). He is also an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). Additionally, Costinett is a joint faculty member in the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to joining UTK, he was an instructor at Utah State University, in 2012. Costinett’s research interests include resonant and soft-switching power converter design, high-efficiency wired and wireless power supplies, on-chip power conversion, medical devices and electric vehicles.
Costinett was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017. He currently serves as associate editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Costinett received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2013. | | Articles written by Daniel Costinett in How2Power Today: |
| 02/14/20 | GaN-Based Wireless Power Enables Efficient, Seamless Multi-Device Charging |
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| Brian Curbo
 | Brian Curbo is a senior principal applications engineer and a member of ON Semiconductor’s online design tools group. In this role, he is responsible for creating new tools used to accelerate and enhance the design of switching power converters. Brian has over 20 years’ experience in power supply for a wide range of applications including industrial and consumer electronics, telecom, and electronic lighting ballast. Prior to joining the design tools team at ON, he worked for Fairchild Semiconductor as a design engineer in the Global Power Resource Center, providing rapid custom design and prototype development. Brian’s professional interests include system and powertrain optimization, automated circuit design, and wide-bandgap semiconductors. | | Articles written by Brian Curbo in How2Power Today: |
| 07/16/18 | Selecting An Inductor Value For A DC-DC Boost Converter |
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| Mala D. M.
 | Mala D. M. currently holds the position of hardware engineer for Strategic Technology Group. She has a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics and M.Tech in Power Electronic Systems and controls from Manipal University. She has teaching experience in power electronics. Her interests include design and firmware development of permanent magnet motor control for electric vehicles, switch-mode power supplies, simulation, and electromagnetic design and analysis. | | Articles written by Mala D. M. in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/12 | Selecting A DSP Controller For Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Drives |
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| Barry Dagan
 | Barry Dagan, P. E. is chief technology officer of Cool Innovations. Barry has more than 25 years of experience in thermal management design and holds multiple patents in this area. | | Articles written by Barry Dagan in How2Power Today: |
| 02/19/10 | Flared Pin Fin Heat Sink Keeps LED Light Burning Brightly |
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| Pierre Delatte
 | Pierre Delatte is CTO and one of the co-founders of CISSOID. With 15 years of experience in high-temperature integrated circuit (IC) design, he is in charge of the technical development and vision of the company. Delatte is also in charge of advanced R&D programs at Cissoid. Delatte holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain. | | Articles written by Pierre Delatte in How2Power Today: |
| 08/31/11 | Designing Power Converters For 100°C+ Environments: Why Use 225°C-Rated Power Components? |
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| Ron Demcko
 | Currently an AVX Fellow, Ron Demcko manages the TSG team at AVX headquarters in Fountain Inn, SC. This role centers on projects ranging from simulation models for passive components to product support/new product identification and applied development. Prior to that Ron was the EMC lab manager for AVX in Raleigh N.C. This lab concentrated on subassembly testing and passive component fixes for harsh electrical and environmental applications. Before the EMC lab work, he held an application engineering position at AVX. Product work included integrated passive components, EMI filters and transient voltage suppression devices. Previously Ron worked as a product engineer and later as a product engineering manager at Corning Glass Works’ electronics division. Ron received a BSEE from Clarkson College of Technology. | | Articles written by Ron Demcko in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/24 | A Practical, Easy-To-Implement Energy Harvester For BLE Modules And Other Applications |
| 08/15/24 | New Capacitors Offer Better Balance Of Performance, Reliability And Cost For LEO Satellites |
| 01/15/24 | Prismatic-Cell Supercapacitors Enable Thinner Boost Circuits |
| 12/15/23 | Supercapacitors Support Miniature Energy Harvester ICs In Powering ULP Devices |
| 03/15/22 | High-Temperature Capacitors Push Performance To 200°C And Beyond |
| 02/15/22 | Polymer And Hybrid Styles Improve Performance And Reliability of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors |
| 08/15/21 | Space-Grade Tantalum Polymer Caps Deliver Lower ESR And Better Current Handling For Bulk Capacitor Applications |
| 03/15/19 | Base Metal Electrodes Reduce Size And Weight Of MLCCs In Satellites |
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| Bernd Deutschmann
 | Bernd Deutschmann is a professor and head of the Institute of Electronics at the Graz University of Technology. His research interests include EMC compliant designs of integrated circuits, power electronics as well as EMC simulation and T&M technology. | | Articles written by Bernd Deutschmann in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Advanced Scopes And Probes Help Optimize SMPS Gate Drives For EMC |
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| Rakesh Dhawan
 | Rakesh Dhawan is a twenty years veteran of Power Electronics Industry. Rakesh has a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, a Masters’ of Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from Old Dominion University, Virginia. Rakesh has been an entrepreneur who has built several high-quality technology businesses. Rakesh has six approved and filed patents and twenty five conference and journal publications to his credit. Rakesh founded Strategic Technology Group to further his passion in power electronics. His interests include electric bicycles, electric vehicles, permanent magnet brushless motor drives, switch-mode power supplies, solar inverters, simulation, statistics, project management and new and ultra-fast product development. Rakesh has built and managed several high-technology product development teams in his career. He has been directly responsible for over twenty five product launches. | | Articles written by Rakesh Dhawan in How2Power Today: |
| 12/16/10 | Current Flow Analysis in Permanent Magnet Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Control Using PSpice |
| 07/30/10 | Integrating Statistics and Manufacturing Data into Simulation of Permanent Magnet Motor Drives |
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| Francesco Di Domenico
 | Francesco Di Domenico is a senior principal application engineer at Infineon Technologies Austria. He’s a system architect for telecom power and specialist in switch mode power supplies (SMPSs) for server/datacenter, telecom and general industrial applications. His main competencies include the application of power semiconductors, both based on Si SJ and modern wide-bandgap materials, in power conversion topologies. His expertise covers telecom system architectures, but also the design of power converters, magnetic components, control concepts, with special focus on resonant/soft switching topologies. Before joining Infineon Technologies Austria, he held technical leading positions in the professional SMPS industry in Italy. | |
| Giuseppe Di Stefano
 | Giuseppe Di Stefano is a technical marketing manager in the Industrial & Power Conversion Business Unit of STMicroelectronics. He is based in Catania (Italy). Di Stefano joined the company in 1982 and covered different roles inside ST: application engineer for small-signal and medium-power transistors, hardware development engineer for advanced testing, marketing engineer for automotive smartpower devices, and finally technical marketing manager for intelligent power switches (IPS) for industrial. He is the author of several technical articles concerning smartpower devices, presented in international conferences and technical magazines. | | Articles written by Giuseppe Di Stefano in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/17 | Smart High-Side Switches Ease Safety Compliance For Industrial IoT |
| 11/30/11 | Use Intelligent High-Side Power Switch To Satisfy Safety Requirements In Process Control And Industrial Automation |
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| Louis Diana
 | Louis Diana is an analog field applications engineer and senior member technical staff at Texas Instruments. Louis joined TI in February of 2004 and holds more than 30 years of power design experience. Prior to his time at TI, he designed power systems for space satellites. Louis holds two U.S. patents along with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the New York Institute of Technology. | |
| Cristian Dinca
 | Cristian Dinca received his Diploma degree and Master’s degree in electronic and engineering from the University Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania in 2006 and 2008. Cristian Dinca is currently working at ON Semiconductor Romania as an analog IC designer dealing with low dropout regulators. | | Articles written by Cristian Dinca in How2Power Today: |
| 05/24/12 | Internal LDO Circuit Offers External Control Of Current Limiting |
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| Kelly Ding
 | Kelly Ding joined Integrated Device Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in 2002 and now serves as a marketing manager. Kelly holds B.S. degrees in English of science and technology as well as computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. | | Articles written by Kelly Ding in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/11 | Energy Meter Design Operates Accurately Over Wide Current Range |
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| Lisa Dinwoodie
 | Lisa Dinwoodie is an applications engineer at Texas Instruments where she supports customers, evaluates new ICs before release, and designs evaluation modules for customer use. Lisa has more than 16 years in the power supply design industry. She received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. You can reach Lisa at ti_lisadinwoodie@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Lisa Dinwoodie in How2Power Today: |
| 02/28/11 | Primary-Side Current Monitoring Won’t Stop Overcurrents In DCM-Operated Flybacks |
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| Don Disney
 | Don Disney is the senior director of technology and product development at Avogy. He received his BSEE from Kettering University and PhD EE from Stanford University, and subsequently has held senior engineering and management positions at Delco Electronics, Power Integrations, Advanced Analogic Technologies, and Monolithic Power Systems. Disney's contributions to the field of power semiconductors span many technologies, including silicon-on-insulator power devices, IGBTs, high-voltage integrated circuits, Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS, and power MOSFETs. He has authored several IEEE papers and more than 100 U.S. patents. | | Articles written by Don Disney in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Vertical Devices In Bulk GaN Drive Diode Performance To Near - Theoretical L imits |
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| Frederik Dostal
 | Frederik Dostal joined Analog Devices in 2009 and currently works as the power management technical marketing engineer for Europe. Dostal began working in the power management field in 2001. Since this time he has been active in various power management applications positions including four years in Phoenix, Arizona where he worked on switched-mode power supplies. Dostal studied microelectronics at the University of Erlangen, Germany. | | Articles written by Frederik Dostal in How2Power Today: |
| 12/17/15 | Reducing Noise Generated By Switching Regulators |
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| Alex Dumais
 | As an applications engineer for Microchip's 16-bit Microcontroller Division, Alex Dumais supports Microchip's dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) for switch-mode power supplies. He is involved in product definition, device validation, creating training and documentation collateral, as well as customer support. He also designs and develops power-supply reference designs, such as those for ac-dc converters, dc-dc converters, lighting and solar applications, to demonstrate the capabilities of the DSCs. Alex received his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and has since been working in the power-electronics field supporting digital control. | | Articles written by Alex Dumais in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/16 | Improving Loop-Gain Performance In Digital Power Supplies With Latest-Generation DSCs |
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| John Dunn
 | John Dunn is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New York. He has had over forty-five years of design experience in services to over a dozen military and industrial corporations in multiple electronic disciplines including analog (low noise audio, power audio, temperature measurement, electrocardiogram recordings, etc.), power supplies (low voltage to 100 A and high voltage to 100,000 V), HF/VHF/UHF equipment, uP development and debugging, test instrument design and test program development. John has had more than forty technical items published in the trade journals. Items appearing in Electronic Design Magazine's "Ideas For Design" column won their "Best Of The Issue" award on four occasions. John is also the founder of the LinkedIn group Analog Developments and has lectured adult classes in mathematics and in electronics theory. | | Articles written by John Dunn in How2Power Today: |
| 10/27/11 | Use Exponential Equations And A Simple Program To Solve Power Supply Problems |
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| Andrew Edwards
 | Andrew Edwards is simulation and modeling manager at Avogy and has been involved with GaN since 1994. Prior to Avogy, Edwards was a device engineer at International Rectifier and before that, at Nitronex. Andrew has a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, and masters and Ph.D. from George Mason University. Edwards also served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. | | Articles written by Andrew Edwards in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Vertical Devices In Bulk GaN Drive Diode Performance To Near - Theoretical L imits |
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| Harold Eicher
 | Harold Eicher is VP of engineering at Champs Technologies, a company which he founded in 2005. In this role he has designed planar magnetics for telecom, industrial, computer and avionics markets. From 1985 to 2005, Eicher was the VP of engineering at Magnetico, which he also founded. At Magnetico, Eicher designed and developed magnetics and electronics for avionics, military, and space satellite markets. Eicher sold this company in Dec 2003 to Standex Electronics, but continued consulting through June 2005. Previously, Eicher was an engineer at AVM where he performed magnetics design and field application engineering. Eicher studied at Boston College where he obtained an AB degree in economics and political science, and then studied law, receiving a JD degree in 1979 from the Saint Louis University School of Law. | | Articles written by Harold Eicher in How2Power Today: |
| 12/16/10 | Embed Your Planar Magnetics To Maximize DC-DC Converter Performance (Part 3): The Bias Supply |
| 10/22/10 | Embed Your Planar Magnetics To Maximize DC-DC Converter Performance (Part 2) |
| 09/24/10 | Embed Your Planar Magnetics To Maximize DC-DC Converter Performance (Part 1) |
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| John Ely
 | John Ely, with more than 18 years of experience in industrial and consumer marketing, serves as marketing director for AMETEK Solid State Controls, a manufacturer of customized inverters and UPS systems. Armed with both a master's degree in marketing and communications, a bachelor's degree in technical management and an associate's degree in electrical engineering, Ely also is a professor of marketing at Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio, and has authored several articles on business development. | | Articles written by John Ely in How2Power Today: |
| 02/16/16 | Custom UPS Software Allows Greater System Control For Pipeline Clients |
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| Mauricio Esguerra
 | Mauricio Esguerra is the CEO and co-founder of MAGMENT. Esguerra has more than 30 years of experience in the field of soft magnetic materials and its applications, modeling, testing, inductive components, power electronics and LED lighting. Prior to founding MAGMEBT, he held management positions at various companies including Siemens/EPCOS, Dialight, Pulse, Falco and Eglo. Esguerra is a member of IEC standard committees representing Germany and received the 1905 and 1906 awards. He is a lecturer at Hochschule der Bayerischen Wirtschaft in Munich, holds fourteen patents and has published 90 papers and a chapter of a book. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Esguerra studied physics at TU München and Ohio State University. | | Articles written by Mauricio Esguerra in How2Power Today: |
| 04/17/17 | Magnetizable Concrete Paves The Way For EV Charging And Low-Cost Power Magnetics |
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| Anthony Esposito
 | CEO and owner of Avatar Engineering Corporation, Anthony Esposito, has over
30 years of experience in power conversion and precision instrumentation for
all markets; consumer, industrial, telecommunications, green-power, medical,
military, and space. Present activities include new semiconductor research,
high-efficiency converters for military and fuel cell applications, and
RF-thermal therapy systems for treatment of cutaneous cancer and other
malignancies. Prior work includes medical MRI gradient amplifier and
systems design, telco cell site power systems design, as well environmental
controls design for NASA's original Enterprise Shuttle. The New Product
Development (NPD) software, "EQuote" (short for Engineering Quote) has been
used extensively by the SBA and Harvard Business. Mr. Esposito resides in
Arizona, is degreed in electrical engineering, business, and computer
science, has numerous patents in power controls and communications, and
often mentors young engineers from ASU on the joys of analog design and
entrepreneurship. | | Articles written by Anthony Esposito in How2Power Today: |
| 03/13/20 | Current Drive Can Overcome Pitfalls Of Class D Audio Amplifiers |
| 07/15/15 | Advantages Of GaN FETs Versus "Best Of Breed" Silicon MOSFETs |
| 01/31/11 | Synergy: SEPIC-Cuk Combo Illustrates Benefits of Creative Thinking |
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| Haifeng Fan
 | Haifeng Fan is a systems engineer with Texas Instruments' Power Products Business Group where he is responsible for new product definition, systems modeling and simulation, evaluation module (EVM) designs, new product promotion, and customer technical support. Haifeng received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; his MSEE from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and his BSEE from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. | | Articles written by Haifeng Fan in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/14 | Design Considerations For DCR Current Sensing In Boost Converters |
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| Eric Faraci
 | Eric Faraci is a systems and applications engineer with the GaN Product Development group at Texas Instruments where he is responsible for defining and designing power products that take advantage of GaN. Eric received his BSEE and MSEE from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia and he can be reached at ti_ericfaraci@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Eric Faraci in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/15 | Designing Offline LED Drivers With GaN |
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| Andrew Ferencz
 | Andrew Ferencz received his SB and SM degrees from MIT in 1987 and 1989. He was previously the VP, Technology at Galaxy Power in Westborough, Mass., developing high power density dc-dc converters. Prior to that, Andrew was the VP, Engineering at Acumentrics in Westwood, Mass. For the last eighteen months he has been self-employed, working on various projects as a turnkey design engineer and consultant in the medical, military, commercial, and industrial markets. | | Articles written by Andrew Ferencz in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/12 | Magnetically Isolated Digital Coupling Circuit Solves Gate Drive and Communications Dilemmas |
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| Dennis Feucht
 | Dennis Feucht has been involved in power electronics for 20 years, designing motor-drives and power converters. He has an instrument background from Tektronix, where he designed test and measurement equipment and did research in Tek Labs. He has lately been doing current-loop converter modeling. | | Articles written by Dennis Feucht in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/24 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 22): Converter Regulator Dynamics |
| 09/15/24 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 19): Controller Design For The Battery Converter |
| 09/13/24 | Can Foil Folding Improve Winding Performance In Transformers? |
| 03/15/24 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 15): Transformer Magnetic Design For the Battery Converter |
| 12/15/23 | Maximizing Power-Transfer Efficiency Over A Current Range |
| 08/15/23 | Piezoelectric Machine Model Aids Design Of Motion Control Systems |
| 07/15/23 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 14): Boost Push-Pull Or Buck Bridge? |
| 06/15/23 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 13): The Differential Boost Push-Pull Power-Transfer Circuit |
| 05/15/23 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 12): Sizing The Converter Magnetics |
| 04/15/23 | Evaluating Waveform Form Factors Of FW And HW Rectifiers In SMPSs |
| 03/15/23 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 11): Minimizing Switch Loss In Low-Input-Resistance Converters |
| 02/15/23 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 10): Converter Protection Circuits |
| 01/15/23 | Do Eddy Current Effects And Self Heating Cause Distortion In Audio Cables? |
| 12/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 9): Magnetics For The Converter Control Power Supply |
| 11/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 8): Converter Control Power Supply |
| 09/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 7): Kilowatt Inverter Magnetics |
| 08/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 6): Kilowatt Inverter Control Circuits |
| 07/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 5): Kilowatt Inverter Circuit Design |
| 05/13/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 4): The Optimal Power-Line Waveshape |
| 04/15/22 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 3): Power-Transfer Circuit Options |
| 02/15/22 | A Simple Magnetic Design Procedure Determines Core Size |
| 01/14/22 | A Simplified Winding Design Procedure For Transformers |
| 10/15/21 | Determining Optimal Wire Size For Toroidal Windings |
| 09/15/21 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 2): Waveshape Selection |
| 09/15/21 | Transformer Winding Design: Bundle Layer Approximation As Rings |
| 05/15/21 | Designing An Open-Source Power Inverter (Part 1): Goals And Specifications |
| 05/14/21 | Misconceptions In Power Magnetics |
| 04/15/21 | Bunched Vs. Cabled: Litz Wire Bundle Twist Geometry Influences Proximity Effects |
| 03/15/21 | Determining Design Power Over An Input Voltage Range (Part 3): Maximum Transformer Power |
| 02/15/21 | Determining Design Power Over An Input Voltage Range (Part 2): Inductor Design Power |
| 11/16/20 | Determining Design Power Over An Input Voltage Range (Part 1): Maximum Inductor Power |
| 10/15/20 | Improving Reliability Of Low-Cost Power-Source Inverters |
| 10/15/20 | Foil Vs. Wire Windings—How Do They Differ? |
| 07/15/20 | Different Approaches To Learning And Applying Digital Signal Processing In Power Electronics |
| 07/15/20 | Interstitial Wire Interleaving Packs More Conductor Into Magnetic Windings |
| 04/15/20 | How To Make Sense Of Sense Resistors |
| 04/15/20 | Optimize Inductor Design To Minimize Output-Filter Size |
| 03/13/20 | How To Choose Magnetics Materials—Beyond Ferrites And Iron-Powder |
| 01/17/20 | Deflux Windings Benefit Forward Converters But Not Flybacks |
| 11/15/19 | Flyback Magnetics: Winding-Current Transition Is Key To Efficiency |
| 10/17/19 | Magnetics Utilization Vs. Converter Topology: A Little Extra Silicon Goes A Long Way |
| 09/16/19 | Waveform-Based Design: Key Parameters And Figures Of Merit For Power Circuit And Magnetics Optimization |
| 08/15/19 | Square Vs. Round Core Legs—Balancing Core And Winding Losses |
| 07/15/19 | Designing Low-Power Flyback Inductors Using Tiny Toroids (Part 2): Calculating Losses |
| 06/17/19 | Designing Low-Power Flyback Inductors Using Tiny Toroids (Part 1): A Boost Converter Application |
| 05/15/19 | Another Look At The Refined Model Of Current-Mode Control |
| 04/15/19 | How To Optimize Turns For Maximum Inductance With Core Saturation |
| 03/15/19 | How To Thermally Model Magnetic Components |
| 02/15/19 | How Wire Bundle Configurations Influence Eddy-Current Proximity Effects |
| 11/15/18 | Interbundle Penetration Of Wire Bundles Improves Their Packing Factor |
| 10/15/18 | Wire Spool Holders And Toroid Mounts Ease Prototyping Of Magnetic Parts |
| 09/14/18 | Optimizing Transformer Winding Design For Max Efficiency Over Output Current Range |
| 07/16/18 | The Geometry Of Twisted Wire Bundles |
| 06/15/18 | Bundle Compression Overcomes Aspect Ratio Constraints On Transformer Design |
| 05/16/18 | Magnetic-Electric Analogs Relate Magnetic Fields To Familiar Circuit Quantities |
| 03/21/18 | Winding Layering Techniques Determine Interlayer Capacitance |
| 02/16/18 | Transformer Design (Part 2): Aspect Ratio |
| 01/15/18 | Transformer Design (Part 1): Maximizing Core Utilization |
| 11/16/17 | A New Method Of Winding Design Optimization (Part 3): Magnetic Operating Points For Toroidal Windings |
| 10/16/17 | A New Method Of Winding Design Optimization (Part 2): Optimal Window Magnetic Operating Points |
| 09/15/17 | A New Method Of Winding Design Optimization (Part 1): Window Geometry And Eddy-Current Plots |
| 08/15/17 | Ferrite Core Magnetics (Part 2): Gapped Ferrite Cores |
| 07/14/17 | Ferrite Core Magnetics (Part 1): Ungapped Ferrite Cores |
| 06/15/17 | Magnetic Component Theory Is Simpler If You Grasp Reference Frames |
| 05/16/17 | Magnetics Optimization (Part 4): Minimization Of Transductor Power Loss |
| 04/17/17 | Magnetics Optimization (Part 3): Maximum Power Transfer Of Magnetics Circuit Model |
| 03/17/17 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 6): Winding Bundles |
| 02/17/17 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 5): Winding Design Optimization |
| 01/16/17 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 4): Dowell's Formula |
| 11/16/16 | How To Calculate Winding Packing Factor |
| 10/17/16 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 3): Conductor Cross-Sectional Geometry |
| 09/15/16 | Performance Parameters Lead To The Optimal Converter |
| 09/15/16 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 2): The Proximity Effect |
| 08/15/16 | Eddy-Current Effects In Magnetic Design (Part 1): The Skin Effect |
| 06/15/16 | Sizing Your Power Converter's Magnetics (Part 3): Transformer Power Rating With An Input Voltage Range |
| 05/16/16 | Sizing Your Power Converter's Magnetics (Part 2): Inductor Power Rating With An Input Voltage Range |
| 04/18/16 | Sizing Your Power Converter's Magnetics (Part 1): Inductor Power Rating With Fixed Input Voltage |
| 12/17/15 | Understanding Power Flow In Cuk Converters |
| 09/16/15 | Magnetics Optimization (Part 2): Maximum Power Transfer Of The Primary-Referred Circuit |
| 09/15/15 | Magnetics Optimization (Part 1): Equal Core And Winding Losses Do Not Maximize Power Transfer |
| 08/17/15 | Area-Product Method Can Simplify Core Selection—But Beware Of The "Constants" |
| 04/16/15 | Determining Maximum Usable Switching Frequency For Magnetics In CCM-Operated Converters |
| 03/13/15 | The Shape Of Optimal Magnetics: Why Flatter Is Better |
| 01/15/15 | Common-Mode Transformer Aids Noise Reduction In High-Power Supplies |
| 11/14/14 | An Analytical Approach To Modeling RC Snubbers And Clamps In Inductive Power Circuits |
| 07/15/14 | Ripple Steering Can Enhance Magnetics Circuit Function Through Ripple Reduction |
| 05/15/14 | What Is To Be Optimized In Magnetic Component Design? |
| 03/14/14 | Single-Bundle Windings Make It Easier To Build Custom Magnetics In-House |
| 02/15/14 | Text Reveals Circuit A nd System Knowledge For Designing Grid - Connected Converters In Renewable Energy Systems |
| 02/15/14 | Understanding Tradeoffs In Core Geometry Aids Transductor Design |
| 09/16/13 | How To Calculate Toroid Winding Length |
| 07/15/13 | How Not To Observe Magnetic Saturation |
| 06/14/13 | New Twist On The Half-Bridge Converter Solves Subtle Failure Mode |
| 05/15/13 | How To Choose Magnetic Core Size |
| 02/15/13 | How To Choose Between Ferrite Or Powdered-Iron Cores: A Case Study |
| 11/21/12 | How To Minimize Core Saturation |
| 05/24/12 | Why Use The Refined Model Of Current-Loop Converter Control? |
| 03/30/12 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 7: Fm0 In Models |
| 02/29/12 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 6: Slope Compensation |
| 01/27/12 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 5: Refined Model |
| 12/22/11 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 4: Clarifications Of Existing Models |
| 11/30/11 | Current-Loop Control in Switching Converters Part 3: Waveform-Based Model Dynamics |
| 10/27/11 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 2: A Waveform-Based Model |
| 09/27/11 | Current-Loop Control In Switching Converters Part 1: Historical Overview |
| 08/31/11 | Aspiring Power Electronics Engineers Must Master Four Aspects Of Converter Design |
| 08/31/11 | Aspiring Power Electronics Engineers Must Master Four Aspects Of Converter Design |
| 07/27/11 | Why Use Aluminum Wire? |
| 03/30/11 | Match Circuit And Field Resistances For Optimal Magnetics Design |
| 02/28/11 | Utilizing Full Saturation and Power Loss To Maximize Power Transfer In Magnetic Components |
| 07/30/10 | Rediscovering The Integrated-Magnetics Isolated Ćuk Topology |
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| Matthew Feurtado
 | Matthew Feurtado is an application engineer for the power modules business unit at Wolfspeed. He has over five years of experience in SiC applications with a focus on power module analysis, gate drivers, and inverters. In addition, he has authored several papers, application notes, and patents. Matthew received his BSEE from the University of Arkansas. | | Articles written by Matthew Feurtado in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Increasing Power Density In Three-Phase Inverters With Direct-Cooled SiC Power Modules |
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| Oriol Fillo
 | Oriol Filló serves as a solution marketing engineer for industrial applications at ON Semiconductor. He is responsible for the marketing strategy of industrial solutions, focusing on robotics and energy infrastructure in particular. He has developed his career in the electronics industry with a focus on power and control, and gathered experience in industrial, IoT and automotive applications. Prior to joining ON Semiconductor in 2019, Oriol worked at Industrial Shields and PRAX Inductive Components in technical sales and business development roles, where among others, he propelled growth of the export business. Oriol received an engineering degree in energy engineering and an M.Sc. in industrial automation systems and industrial electronics from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Oriol also holds a master in management from EADA Business School. | | Articles written by Oriol Fillo in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 5): Control Algorithms, Modulation Schemes And Feedback |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
| 02/15/21 | Demystifying Three-Phase PFC Topologies |
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| Aznan Firmansyah
 | Aznan Firmansyah is an electrical engineer at P.T. Bhimasena Research and Development, Indonesia and also writes application notes for Dialog Semiconductor. Aznan graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics in 2016. His interests have included robotics, electronics design, image processing, and programming languages. | | Articles written by Aznan Firmansyah in How2Power Today: |
| 07/16/18 | Simple Circuits Prevent Servo Overloads |
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| Dermot Flynn
 | Dermot Flynn is the director of strategic marketing, high voltage and low voltage at Advanced Energy. In his 20 years in the power supply industry, Dermot has held a number of senior roles in product development, product & technical marketing, and sales. Dermot holds a BAI in electronic and electrical engineering and a BA in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a higher diploma in management & marketing from University College, Cork, and H-Dip in education from Trinity College, Dublin. | | Articles written by Dermot Flynn in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/21 | Modular Power Supplies Save Cost, Speed Product Development For Medical Applications |
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| Mark Fortunato
 | Mark Fortunato is senior principal member of technical staff at Maxim Integrated and has managed the EE-Sim team for the past three years. He has 37 years of experience in analog electronics from dc to 200 GHz including 21 years in the semiconductor industry in roles including field applications, product definition, design management, FAE management and strategic marketing before taking his current role. He has a BS in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and can often be found on hiking trails. | | Articles written by Mark Fortunato in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/18 | Online Simulation Validates Output Error Budget Analysis For Buck Converter |
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| William Fox
 | William Fox is the senior design engineer at AMETEK Solid State Controls in Columbus, Ohio. His industry experience spans more than 30 years, including the past eight years with AMETEK. He previously served in key engineering positions with Vanner, Encore Networks (formerly Fastcomm Communications), Lockheed Martin and IBM. Fox holds an BSEE from Clemson University as well as an associate of science degree in electrical engineering technology from Greenville, SC Technical College. | | Articles written by William Fox in How2Power Today: |
| 02/16/16 | Custom UPS Software Allows Greater System Control For Pipeline Clients |
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| Randy Frank
 | Randy Frank has more than 30 years of industry experience in electronics and semiconductors at companies that include Chrysler, Motorola and International Rectifier, where he was involved with product engineering, marketing and applications. At American Motors, now part of the Chrysler Group LLC, he was responsible for implementing their first electronic engine control systems. Randy was the product manager for SMARTMOS ICs at Motorola, now Freescale Semiconductor, when its first power ICs were introduced. He has written on a variety of topics from power semiconductors and ICs to microcontrollers and digital signal processors. Randy is a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He has an MSEE, MBA and BSEE from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. | |
| Dave Freeman
 | David "TI's" Freeman is a Texas Instruments Fellow and engineering manager in Texas Instrument's Power Management business unit where currently he manages TI’s Solar Energy Systems Lab. This lab focuses on methods that increase the delivered power from solar energy systems as well as provide monitoring and management for improved reliability and safety. David's 35-year career has always focused on energy sources and energy management. David is a popular expert in his field who has presented at many conferences around the world, including in the U.S., China and Japan. He has written multiple technical papers and a monthly column in a publication targeted to electrical engineers. Many patents in battery technology and power management have been credited to David's efforts. David has a BS degree in physics from Midwestern University. | | Articles written by Dave Freeman in How2Power Today: |
| 06/24/11 | Solar Microconverter Implements Novel MPPT Algorithm |
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| Giovanni Frezza
 | Giovanni Frezza joined STMicroelectronics in 1999 after he received a Master of Science Degree in physics from the University “La Sapienza†of Rome, Italy in 1998. After several years working on MEMS, advanced packaging and sensors as R&D team leader, he focused on industrial application-specific products in the Technical Marketing organization. Today, he is a technical marketing manager in the Americas region based in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA. | | Articles written by Giovanni Frezza in How2Power Today: |
| 01/27/12 | System-On-Chip Architecture Raises Performance Of Microstepping Motor Driver Designs |
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| Peter Friedrichs
 | Peter Friedrichs has worked in the power semiconductor industry for over 25 years and currently serves as vice president SiC at Infineon Technologies. Previously, he was the managing director of SiCED, a joint venture of Siemens and Infineon, which was later integrated within Infineon. Prior to that he was involved in the development of power devices on SiC at Siemens. Peter holds numerous patents in the field of SiC power devices and technology, and has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific papers and conference contributions. He received his Dipl.-Ing. in microelectronics from the Technical University of Bratislava and his Ph.D from the the Fraunhofer Institut FhG-IIS-B in Erlangen. His focus area of expertise was the physics of the MOS interface in SiC. Peter also holds a Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. from the University of Hagen. | |
| Michael Fuchs
 | Since 2016, Michael Fuchs has been working as a university assistant and PhD-student at the Institute of Electronics at Graz University of Technology-Austria. His research focuses on the simulation of electromagnetic emissions (EME) in high-voltage switched power converters and EMC-suitable circuit design. Michael is also currently teaching different subjects relating to the fundamentals of electronics and electromagnetic compatibility. He holds a BSc degree in electrical- and sound-engineering and an MSc degree from the Institute of Electronics at Graz University of Technology-Austria. | | Articles written by Michael Fuchs in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Advanced Scopes And Probes Help Optimize SMPS Gate Drives For EMC |
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| Veda Prakash Galigekere
 | Veda Prakash Galigekere received the B.E, M.S Degrees from Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, India and Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Wright State University. His areas of interests are PWM dc-dc and dc-ac inverters, power semiconductor devices, renewable energy systems and system-level simulations of the same. | | Articles written by Veda Prakash Galigekere in How2Power Today: |
| 12/22/11 | Power Electronic Circuitry In LED Modules: An Overview |
| 02/19/10 | An Overview and Simulation of DC-DC-AC and Z-Source Grid Connected Inverters |
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| Giusy Gambino
 | Giusy Gambino is in charge of technical marketing for low-voltage power MOSFETs in the Automotive Discrete Group (ADG)—Low Voltage Solutions Division. Her main focus is the automotive market in both the EMEA and Japan regions. Prior to this, she worked as a designer of RF ASICs for telecom mobile applications. She holds a master’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Palermo. | | Articles written by Giusy Gambino in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/22 | Automotive MOSFETs Enhance Performance Of Power Distribution Systems |
| 04/15/22 | Wide-SOA Trench MOSFET Enables Rugged Linear-Mode Operation |
| 06/15/21 | Advanced MOSFETs Improve Power Conversion In 48-V Mild Hybrid Systems |
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| Levi Gant
 | Levi Gant is a technical marketing engineer at Littelfuse, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. He joined Monolith in August 2016, where he specializes in the characterization of SiC devices and the design of SiC application converters. Levi attended The University of Alabama, where he received his BS in 2015 and his MS in 2016. | | Articles written by Levi Gant in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/18 | Selecting A Freewheeling Diode Solution For Lowest Losses With SiC MOSFETs |
| 06/15/17 | Development Tools Aim to Overcome Designers’ Hesitation About SiC MOSFETs |
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| Wanda Garrett
 | Wanda Garrett is a senior member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments. She is an applications manager in the WEBENCH Design Center, and has designed a wide variety of power supply circuits while part of the WEBENCH team as well as in several National Semiconductor product lines. | | Articles written by Wanda Garrett in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/15 | Automated Tools Improve Frequency Response In Switching Regulators |
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| Frederic Gautier
 | Frederic Gautier is an application engineer at STMicroelectronics, France. He has been an expert in switched-mode power supply applications and the industrial and power segments within the Application & System Engineering department since 1998. Frederic Gautier graduated with a technical degree in electronics and holds several patents in the switched-mode power supply domain within STMicroelectronics. | | Articles written by Frederic Gautier in How2Power Today: |
| 01/26/10 | PFC Efficiency Improvement Using SiC Power Schottky Rectifiers |
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| Ovidiu George
 | Profirescu Ovidiu George is a design engineer at ON Semiconductor Romania, with seven years of experience in design, verification and validation of analog integrated circuits. He has actively participated in the development of several LDO product families. George is also involved in academic activities as an assistant professor at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Electrical Engineering Department where he teaches Electronic Devices and Circuits, TCAD, Device and Process Simulation, using industry-standard simulators and equipment. George graduated from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2006 as an "Advanced Microelectronics" Master and also from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in collaboration with Infineon Technologies in 2008. Since 2007 George has been a PhD student. | |
| Chris Glaser
 | Chris Glaser is a senior applications engineer for TI’s Low Power DC-DC group and a member of the group technical staff. In this role, he supports customers, designs evaluation modules (EVMs), writes application notes, trains field engineers and customers, and generates technical collateral to make TI parts easier to use. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. | | Articles written by Chris Glaser in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/20 | Choosing The Best Operating Mode In An Ultra-Low-IQ Buck Converter |
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| Peter Green
 | Peter Green received a BSc degree in electrical engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1985. Since then he has worked in product design and development for commercial and military companies in the power supply and lighting industries in the UK. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer. In 2001 he relocated to California to join the Lighting Design Center at International Rectifier where he has worked on new lighting ASIC definition and design, as well as application support. Peter is currently managing LED systems and applications. Peter has previously presented at APEC, PCIM and many other conferences and has several patents related to lighting electronics. | | Articles written by Peter Green in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/21 | Smart Gate Driver IC Simplifies Motor Drive Design In Battery-Powered Applications |
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| Paul Greenland
 | Paul Greenland is a power industry veteran with over thirty years' experience in the design, application and marketing of power conversion systems. His designs range from dc-dc converters in the first cellular phones to ion propulsion systems in satellites. Paul is an avid radio amateur, dedicated to the proliferation of power electronics know-how across a wide variety of applications. | | Articles written by Paul Greenland in How2Power Today: |
| 12/20/12 | Impact Of High-Performance Computing Technology On Power Conversion |
| 11/21/12 | Understanding Industrial System Structures Is Key To Powering Them |
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| Alberto Guerra
 | Alberto Guerra is vice president of product marketing and strategic market development at International Rectifier (IR) where he works on business development for new semiconductor material and new emerging power conversion technologies. Prior to this position, Alberto served as divisional vice president of IC & Integrated Product with Vishay Siliconix. Alberto moved to Vishay after over two decades with International Rectifier, during which time he successfully served as VP sales-marketing and application of IR's Power Semi Business Unit, and previously as VP marketing and business development of IRSA Integrated Technologies. Alberto began his career in power electronics, after completing his degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1980, as a design engineer of automatic test equipment for electric motors and drivers in Turin, Italy. Alberto has written, and published several papers and articles covering the use of power semiconductor technology and related applications from low voltage dc-dc converters to high-voltage high-power components and EMI compatibility. He also five holds patents in packaging and power electronics technology.. | | Articles written by Alberto Guerra in How2Power Today: |
| 01/16/14 | Modular Solution Simplifies Design Of PFC Front-End For Inverters In Energy-Efficient Air Conditioning Systems |
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| Kosala Gunawardane
 | Kosala Gunawardane is currently a lecturer in electrical and electronics engineering at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests are analog circuit design, low-dropout regulators, supercapacitor-based applications, superconductor applications in power engineering and dc-microgrid. Gunawardane received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2005. She completed her PhD degree at the University of Waikato, New Zealand in 2014 in power electronics engineering. | | Articles written by Kosala Gunawardane in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | Circumventing Loss In An RC Circuit Leads To More Efficient Power Converters |
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| Jason Guo
 | Jason Guo is a Fairchild Semiconductor senior applications engineer focusing on high-performance power conversion, web-based design tools, and tier-one customer support. He is based in San Jose, Calif. Prior to joining Fairchild, Jason worked at Semtech and Artesyn Technologies. Jason received an MSEE in power electronics from Virginia Tech. | | Articles written by Jason Guo in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/15 | Partial BCM Mode Of Operation Improves Efficiency For Primary-Side Regulated Flyback LED Driver |
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| Yash Gupte
 | Yash Gupte is a hardware engineer at Teledyne LeCroy. He completed his M.S. in electrical engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder. His B.E. is in electronics engineering from Mumbai University, India. | | Articles written by Yash Gupte in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/21 | Consider The Tradeoffs When Choosing Probes For 48-V Applications |
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| Varun Kumar H
 | Varun Kumar H received his Bachelor's of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India in 2009. He has his MTech from MIT, Manipal University, Manipal, India, in Power Electronics Systems and Control. He is currently working as a hardware and simulation engineer at Strategic Technology Group, Pune, India. His areas of interests are power semiconductor devices, motor drives and control, and OrCAD/PSPICE (system-level simulations.) | | Articles written by Varun Kumar H in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/12 | Selecting A DSP Controller For Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Drives |
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| Chad Hall
 | Currently serving as chief operating officer of Ioxus, Chad Hall has used his extensive mechanical engineering and business experience to take Ioxus from funding to factory to launch. Chad is responsible for manufacturing and testing of standard products, as well as further establishing the company and building the team, increasing sales, locating funding, and spurring continued product development. Chad is also responsible for educating the market on Ioxus products and training sales personnel on the technical aspects of the expanding product line.
Chad spent 14 years with Ioxus' parent company, Custom Electronics, Inc. (CEI). In addition, he has been involved in several high-voltage, high-reliability capacitor projects at national labs. Chad attended State University of New York, Delhi and received a 3-M certificate in electro-mechanical design and drafting. Chad is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). | | Articles written by Chad Hall in How2Power Today: |
| 10/22/09 | Ultracapacitors Give Lift to Material Handling |
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| Jeff Harrison
.jpg) | Jeff Harrison, a 25-year industry veteran who has served as director of sales and marketing for AMETEK Prestolite Power for the past four years, is responsible not only for leading the company’s sales efforts but also implementing its marketing strategies and increasing market share. A business unit of AMETEK, a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, Prestolite Power produces a wide range of industrial motive power battery chargers. Harrison holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Missouri. | | Articles written by Jeff Harrison in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | A Guide To Selecting Industrial Battery Chargers For Material Handling Applications |
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| Sanjay Havanur
 | Sanjay Havanur is currently the principal applications engineer at Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, Inc. Since receiving his Master's Degree in Power Electronics and Drives at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1983, Havanur has gained extensive experience in the field of power electronics, having worked in design and applications in both India and the U.S.
He has published papers and application notes in technical journals, and holds several patents relating to high-frequency power conversion. Sanjay Havanur's current interests include novel and efficient power conversion topologies, energy harvesting techniques and solar power. | | Articles written by Sanjay Havanur in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/17 | Dealing With Nonlinear MOSFET Capacitances |
| 04/15/16 | Beware Of Zero-Voltage Switching |
| 08/15/15 | Demystifying Power MOSFET Voltage Ratings |
| 04/15/15 | Application-Specific FOM: Key To Choosing The Right MOSFET |
| 10/15/14 | How2 Turn On A MOSFET |
| 12/15/09 | A Practical Look At Current Ratings |
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| Timothy Hegarty
 | Timothy Hegarty is a principal applications engineer for the National Semiconductor design center in Tucson, Ariz. He received the B.E.(Elec.) and M.Eng.Sc degrees in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork, Ireland in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Prior to joining National, he worked for Artesyn Technologies designing isolated board-mounted brick converters. His areas of interest are integrated PWM switching regulators and controllers, LDOs, references, hot-swap controllers, renewable energy systems, and system-level simulation of same. Tim can be reached at Tim.Hegarty@ti.com. | | Articles written by Timothy Hegarty in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/24 | Current Mode-Controlled DC-DC Regulators (Part 2): Loop Compensation And Load Transient Performance |
| 11/15/24 | Current Mode-Controlled DC-DC Regulators (Part 1): A Review Of Small-Signal Behavior |
| 06/15/24 | How Active EMI Filter ICs Reduce Common-Mode Emissions In Single- And Three-Phase Applications (Part 4): Loop-Gain Analysis |
| 03/15/24 | How Active EMI Filter ICs Reduce Common-Mode Emissions In Single- And Three-Phase Applications (Part 3): Modeling Nanocrystalline Chokes |
| 02/15/24 | How Active EMI Filter ICs Reduce Common-Mode Emissions in Single- And Three-Phase Applications (Part 2): Modeling Ferrite Chokes |
| 11/15/23 | How Active EMI Filter ICs Reduce Common-Mode Emissions In Single- And Three-Phase Applications (Part 1): An Overview |
| 11/15/22 | A Guide To Power Electronics Design For Off-Battery Automotive (Part 4): DC-DC Conversion From 400 V |
| 10/15/22 | A Guide To Power Electronics Design For Off-Battery Automotive (Part 3): DC-DC Conversion From 48 V |
| 06/15/22 | A Guide To Power Electronics Design For Off-Battery Automotive (Part 2): DC-DC Conversion From 12 V |
| 05/13/22 | A Guide To Power Electronics Design For Off-Battery Automotive (Part 1): EMC And Line Transient Requirements |
| 07/15/21 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 18): Advanced Spread-Spectrum Techniques |
| 04/15/21 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 17): Active And Hybrid Filter Circuits |
| 12/15/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 16): Common-Mode Input Filter Design |
| 10/15/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 15): Differential-Mode Input Filter Design |
| 08/14/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 14): Behavioral Noise Modeling |
| 06/15/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 13): Predicting the Common-Mode Conducted Noise Spectrum |
| 04/15/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 12): Predicting The Differential-Mode Conducted Noise Spectrum |
| 01/15/20 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 11): Input Filter Impact On Dynamic Performance |
| 11/15/19 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 10): Input Filter Impact on Stability |
| 08/15/19 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 9): Spread-Spectrum Modulation |
| 02/15/19 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 8): Common-Mode Noise Mitigation In Isolated Designs |
| 12/18/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 7): Common-Mode Noise Of A Flyback |
| 09/14/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 6): Mitigation Techniques Using Discrete FET Designs |
| 06/15/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 5): Mitigation Techniques Using Integrated FET Designs |
| 04/15/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 4): Radiated Emissions |
| 03/21/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 3): Understanding Power Stage Parasitics |
| 01/15/18 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 2): Noise Propagation And Filtering |
| 12/15/17 | The Engineer’s Guide To EMI In DC-DC Converters (Part 1): Standards Requirements And Measurement Techniques |
| 01/16/17 | Automotive Front-End Buck-Boost Regulator Actively Filters Voltage Disturbances |
| 09/15/16 | Multi-Output Fly-Buck Regulator Offers Wide VIN, Isolation And Low EMI |
| 03/15/16 | Vertically Stacked MOSFETs And Other Tricks For Building A High-Density 30-A Point-of-Load Regulator |
| 09/15/15 | Optimizing The Efficiency Of The Four-Switch Buck-Boost Converter |
| 03/13/15 | Streamlining Synchronous Buck-Boost Converter Design |
| 07/15/14 | Current-Mode Control Stability Analysis For DC-DC Converters (Part 2) |
| 06/13/14 | Current-Mode Control Stability Analysis For DC-DC Converters (Part 1) |
| 11/15/13 | Inductor DCR Current Sensing With Temperature Compensation: An Accurate, Lossless Approach For POL Regulators |
| 03/30/11 | Paralleling Electrolytic and Ceramic Capacitors Perks Up POL Transient Response |
| 08/19/10 | SIMPLIS Simulation Tames Analysis of Stability, Transient Response, and Startup For DC-DC Converters |
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| Todd Hendrix
 | Todd Hendrix is the director of sales & marketing for Enargy Power Corp. based out of the N.A. headquarters in San Ramon, California. Hendrix has almost 30 years of experience in electronics marketing, sales and business management in the international marketplace. He has demonstrated success with power supply and semiconductor companies including Philips, Artesyn Technologies (now Artesyn Embedded Technologies) and Synqor. Before joining Enargy, Todd consulted for numerous companies on strategy, business development, sales, marketing and mergers & acquisitions. | | Articles written by Todd Hendrix in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/16 | Medical AC-DC Power Supplies Are Becoming More Specialized |
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| Markus Herdin
 | Markus Herdin is a seasoned market development professional at Rohde & Schwarz with a focus on power electronics test & measurement applications as well as EMC applications for oscilloscopes. His experience at Rohde & Schwarz includes roles in product management, product development and corporate business development. Markus holds a PhD in electrical engineering as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth. | | Articles written by Markus Herdin in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Advanced Scopes And Probes Help Optimize SMPS Gate Drives For EMC |
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| Richard K. Hester
 | Dick Hester currently works on solar power module electronics for Texas Instruments Power Management group. Dick has over three decades of experience working on everything from circuits and subsystems for analog interfaces to DSP-based systems. He received a PhD in physics from The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, and was a post-doc in the Chemistry Department of MIT. He has been active in the IEEE in various capacities and was elected IEEE Fellow in 1994 and TI Senior Fellow in 2002. He can be reached at ti_dickhester@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Richard K. Hester in How2Power Today: |
| 06/24/11 | Solar Microconverter Implements Novel MPPT Algorithm |
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| Jun Honda
 | Jun Honda is a senior staff engineer in International Rectifier's Energy Savings Product Business Unit in El Segundo, Calif. Jun has more than 15 years of experience in designing consumer, as well as professional audio circuits, including class D audio amplifiers. | | Articles written by Jun Honda in How2Power Today: |
| 11/24/09 | Integrated Driver Shrinks Class D Audio Amplifiers |
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| Michael Hopkins
 | Michael Hopkins is the founder of CurrentRF, a California-based research company launched in 2002. Through activities with CurrentRF, Michael developed the RFDAC methodology and Current Reuse Mixer (the CRF2101) in 2002, and more recently, the PowerOptimizer (PowerOp) methodologies and technologies the company is currently marketing. Michael is also an RF/analog IC design engineer with 17 years of RFIC and mixed-signal/analog design experience with companies such as Analog Devices, Northrop Grumman, Intersil, Teledyne Scientific, and Cypress Semiconductor where he has designed amplifiers, DACs, ADCs, mixers, switch-mode regulators, high-efficiency charge pumps, DLLs/PLLs, energy harvesting circuits, etc. His unique and wide experience across the communications, analog/mixed-signal, RF, power management, and energy harvesting disciplines in the semiconductor industry has enabled the latest CurrentRF development, the CC-100 PowerOptimizer (PowerOp) and its derivative products. | | Articles written by Michael Hopkins in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/14 | Technology Recycles Noise Currents To Reduce Power Drain Of Digital Circuits |
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| Mike Hoyer
 | Mike Hoyer is an applications engineer for HBM Test and Measurement. Mike has over 35 years of radio broadcasting experience and over 30 years of data acquisition, marketing and applications engineering experience in the automotive, aerospace and power industries providing solutions-oriented results worldwide via presentations, articles, trade shows, seminars, videos, webinars, white papers and on-site training and demonstrations. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, and an associate’s degree in Engineering Science from Farmingdale State University of New York. | | Articles written by Mike Hoyer in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/19 | Dynamic Motor Power Measurement Enables In-Vehicle Testing Of EVs |
| 07/16/18 | Accelerate Motor Mapping And Drivetrain Analysis With Advanced Power Analyzer |
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| Yuequan Hu
 | Yuequan Hu received the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1989, 1992, and 1999, respectively. From May 2003 to Oct. 2010, he was a member of R&D staff at the Power Electronics Laboratory, Delta Products Corporation, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the Advanced R&D unit of Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of power supplies. He is currently with Cree Inc., working on R&D of LED lighting solutions. His main research interests include high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp ballasts and LED lighting. | | Articles written by Yuequan Hu in How2Power Today: |
| 04/29/11 | Single-Stage Flyback LED Driver Meets Class C Limits on Harmonic Currents |
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| Laszlo Huber
 | Laszlo Huber was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, in 1953. He received the Dipl. Eng. degree from the University Novi Sad, Novi Sad, the M.S. degree from the University of Niš, Niš, Yugoslavia, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1977, 1983, and 1992, respectively, all in electrical engineering.
From 1977 to 1992, he was an Instructor at the Institute for Power and Electronics, University of Novi Sad. In 1992, he joined the Virginia Power Electronics Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, as a Visiting Professor. From 1993 to 1994 he was a Research Scientist at the Virginia Power Electronics Center. Since 1994, he has been a Senior Member of the R&D Staff at the Power Electronics Laboratory, Delta Products Corporation, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the Advanced R&D unit of Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of power supplies. His 33-year experience includes the analysis, simulation, and design of high-frequency, high-power-density, single-phase and three-phase power processors; modeling, simulation, evaluation, and application of high-power semiconductor devices; and modeling, simulation, analysis, and design of analog and digital electronics circuits. He has published over 80 technical papers and holds five U.S. patents. Dr. Huber is the recipient of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Award for the best paper published in 2009 and of the Yugoslav Conference on Electronics, Telecommunication, Automation, and Nuclear Technique (ETAN) Best Paper Award in 1990. | | Articles written by Laszlo Huber in How2Power Today: |
| 04/29/11 | Single-Stage Flyback LED Driver Meets Class C Limits on Harmonic Currents |
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| Pat Hunter
 | Pat Hunter is a senior product marketing engineer in Power Management Products. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. | | Articles written by Pat Hunter in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/16 | Conventional Buck Vs. High-Frequency Series-Capacitor Buck: Who Wins? |
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| Jon Hurry
 | Jon Hurry is the VP of Business Development at Linear Labs. He has spent over 25 years in automotive technology development. He has extensive expertise in electric car and motor, crush crumple and material design having worked for (or done design projects with) Tesla, Faraday Futures, Lucid, GM and others. He has a BS in manufacturing engineering from Western Michigan University where he was also an adjunct professor, part of the manufacturing overview board and a member of the dean interviewing team for the Engineering College. Jon is the founder of Propitious Technologies and is the author of multiple patents in this space. | | Articles written by Jon Hurry in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/21 | Design, Development And Performance Of A Power Generating Suspension System For Energy Harvesting In Commercial Vehicles |
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| Elsbeth Hurry
 | Elsbeth Hurry is the CEO of Propitious Technologies and other technology accelerators. Propitious Technologies’ mission is to accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation through power generating struts. She has over 25 years of technology company management (Stryker, Boston Scientific and Guidant) focusing largely on global M&A, marketing, integration and finance. Elsbeth has a BS in mechanical and biomedical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA in finance from Indiana University. | | Articles written by Elsbeth Hurry in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/21 | Design, Development And Performance Of A Power Generating Suspension System For Energy Harvesting In Commercial Vehicles |
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| Ali Husain
 | Ali Husain is senior manager for Strategy and Corporate Marketing, focusing on power electronics. He has previously worked in Technical Marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor and International Rectifier in various roles for nine years. Ali has a bachelor of electrical engineering and a bachelor of economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. | | Articles written by Ali Husain in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Charles Hymowitz
 | Charles Hymowitz is a technologist, marketer and business executive with over 25 years of experience in the engineering services and EDA software markets. Mr. Hymowitz has been Chairman and CEO of AEi Systems, LLC since its re-organization in 2002. He currently guides all aspects of the company's operations including technical services, product quality, sales and a staff of over 30 in-house and consulting engineers. | | Articles written by Charles Hymowitz in How2Power Today: |
| 09/24/10 | Powering RF Systems: Why So Many Power Supply Designs Have Problems and What IC Suppliers Should Do About It |
| 05/27/10 | Lost in Space: Unpredictable Aging Can Send Resistor Accuracy Way Off Course |
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| Radu H. Iacob
 | Radu H. Iacob is a product design manager at ON Semiconductor, coordinating design and product engineering activities, from concept to market, on various products lines such as non-volatile memories, digital potentiometers and power management circuits. He has been with ON Semiconductor since 2008. Previously, he held the position of design manager at Catalyst Semiconductor, in charge of design and product introduction for EEPROM memories and other mixed-signal products. He was an employee of Catalyst Semiconductor since 1996. Prior to that, Iacob was a research engineer at the Institute of Micro-technology in Bucharest, Romania. Iacob has co-authored over 20 patents and scientific papers, and holds MS and PhD degrees from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. | |
| Mohamed Imam
 | Mohamed Imam currently serves as the director of the Chandler/Arizona GaN Concept Engineering Design Center of Infineon Technologies Americas, where he leads a team responsible for device, design, reliability, and device-applications engineering. Mohamed has 25+ years of diverse experience in semiconductor and technology development covering organizations such as Micron Technologies, Motorola SPS, and On Semiconductor. Mohamed has many professional certificates, has won numerous awards, and has participated in many technical/academic committees. He currently holds 22 U.S.-issued patents with many additional patents pending, and has authored more than 60 journal/conference papers. Mohamed holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Mohamed Imam in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/22 | Empowering High-Voltage AC Applications With Monolithic GaN Bidirectional Switches |
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| Budge Ing
| Budge Ing has been an applications engineer with Maxim Integrated for 16 years. He received his MSEE from San Jose State University. | | Articles written by Budge Ing in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/14 | USB Charger Provides Battery Backup And Load Switching With Easy, Low-Cost Design |
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| Basil Issac
 | Basil Issac currently serves as vice president R&D at Eram Power Electronics Bangalore, India where he takes the lead in managing the R&D and innovation center. He has 22+ years of experience in power products design and development in the field of industrial medical and aerospace. He holds an engineering degree in electronics and communications from Madras University and a degree in power engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. | | Articles written by Basil Issac in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/22 | Inverter With Modified PLL Control Transitions Seamlessly Between On- And Off-Grid Operation |
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| David Jacquinod
 | David Jacquinod graduated with a Master's degree in power electronics from the Ecole Centrale Marseille, France in 1996. He is currently an application and marketing manager in International Rectifier's Automotive Business Unit where Jacquinod is in charge of defining and promoting the Intelligent Power Switch products and low-voltage ICs. | | Articles written by David Jacquinod in How2Power Today: |
| 09/28/12 | Automotive Battery And Component Technologies Address Start-Stop Design Challenges |
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| Matt Jenks
 | Matt Jenks graduated from Michigan State University with a BSEE. He worked ten years for Motorola at both their Automotive and Industrial Electronics Group and Semiconductor Products Sector, in hardware and sales engineering roles. His work included the maintenance and development of powertrain control modules and related custom ICs. He has also worked at Visteon as an electrical engineer and Vishay Intertechnology as a sales engineer. Matt has been with International Rectifier as an automotive field applications engineer for over 7 years. | | Articles written by Matt Jenks in How2Power Today: |
| 02/29/12 | Livin’ On The Edge: Switching Converter Slew Rate Is Key To Mitigating EMI In Automotive Environments |
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| John Jing
 | John Jing is an applications engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor, focusing on web-based online design tools for various topologies. He is based in Los Angeles, Calif. Prior to Fairchild, he worked as an applications engineer at Semtech. Before joining Semtech, he worked at Rockwell Science Center as a research scientist in the power management group for dual-purpose projects. John holds engineering degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. | | Articles written by John Jing in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/15 | Partial BCM Mode Of Operation Improves Efficiency For Primary-Side Regulated Flyback LED Driver |
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| Jiri Jirutka
 | Jiri Jirutka has worked for more than 40 years in the development of electronic devices, including the development of audio and music synthesis equipment, and 15 years in industrial automation and development of x86 and PowerPC industrial computers with support for BIOS and RT systems. Jiri’s experience also includes five years working as an ASIC designer. For the past six years, he has been an application engineer supporting power management circuits at STMicroelectronics. Jiri has completed two master studies at CVUT Prag (Technology and Operating Systems). In his spare time, he enjoys downhill skiing, travel to exotic countries and keeping and renovating a cottage in the mountains. | | Articles written by Jiri Jirutka in How2Power Today: |
| 01/16/19 | Two-Switch Flybacks Outperform LLC Resonant Converters On Most Parameters |
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| Bill Johns
 | Bill Johns is an applications engineer for bqTESA Wireless Power at Texas Instruments where he specializes in power conversion for portable battery powered applications. Bill has 20 years of design experience in the field of power conversion across a number of different markets. He received his BSEE from University of Texas in Dallas. Bill can be reached at ti_billjohns[at]list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Bill Johns in How2Power Today: |
| 07/27/11 | How To Implement A 5-W Wireless Power System |
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| Ken Johnson
 | Kenneth Johnson is a director of marketing and product architect at Teledyne LeCroy. He began his career in the field of high-voltage test and measurement at Hipotronics, with a focus on <69-kV electrical apparatus ac, dc and impulse testing with a particular focus on testing of transformers, induction motors and generators. In 2000, Ken joined Teledyne LeCroy as a product manager and has managed a wide range of oscilloscope, serial data protocol and probe products. He has three patents in the area of simultaneous physical layer and protocol analysis. His current focus is in the fields of power electronics and motor drive test solutions, and works primarily in a technical marketing role as a product architect for new solution sets in this area. Ken holds a B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. | | Articles written by Ken Johnson in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/21 | Consider The Tradeoffs When Choosing Probes For 48-V Applications |
| 05/16/17 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 16): Torque, Speed, Position, And Direction Sensing |
| 04/17/17 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 15): Low-Pass And Harmonic Filtering Of Power Measurements |
| 03/15/17 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 14): Power Measurements On Distorted Signals |
| 02/17/17 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 13): Motor Drive Control Architectures And Algorithms |
| 01/16/17 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 12): Variable Frequency Motor Drives |
| 12/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 11): AC And DC Motor Types |
| 11/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 10): Motor Background |
| 10/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 9): Power Semiconductors As Implemented In Power Conversion Systems |
| 09/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 8): Power Semiconductors |
| 08/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 7): Power Calculations In Three-Phase Systems |
| 07/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 6): AC Line Power Calculations |
| 06/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 5): Three-Phase AC Line Current And Winding Configurations |
| 05/16/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 4): Single-Phase AC Line Current |
| 04/18/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 3): Three-Phase AC Line Voltage |
| 03/15/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 2): Single-Phase AC Line Voltage |
| 02/16/16 | A Practical Primer On Motor Drives (Part 1): What New Design Engineers Need To Know |
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| Ron Johnson
 | Ron Johnson is a staff applications engineer for Intersil. He has 28 years of semiconductor industry experience, and has worked in Intersil's Central Applications customer support group the past 11 years. He is the primary developer of the PowerCompass Excel Tool. | | Articles written by Ron Johnson in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/16 | Creating A Complex Multi-Load Power Solution In Minutes |
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| Milan M. Jovanović
 | Milan M. Jovanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade.
He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the Power Systems Business Group of Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of power supplies, and Vice President for R&D of Delta Products Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC. | | Articles written by Milan M. Jovanović in How2Power Today: |
| 04/29/11 | Single-Stage Flyback LED Driver Meets Class C Limits on Harmonic Currents |
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| Girish R. Kamath
 | Girish R. Kamath graduated with a Masters degree in 1996 and a Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Since then Girish has been working in the U.S. motor drives and plasma cutting industries. He also has work experience in the Indian power electronics industry, in the area of high-frequency power conversion for UPS applications. Girish currently designs power electronic systems and controls for plasma-cutting power supplies. His main areas of interest are the multi-physics modeling approach to power component design, high-voltage circuits, and digital control. | | Articles written by Girish R. Kamath in How2Power Today: |
| 06/29/12 | Simple Control Method Tames Flux Saturation In High-Frequency Transformer-Link Full-Bridge DC-DC Converters |
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| Nikhilesh Kamath
 | Nikhilesh Kamath currently works as a staff applications engineer for the Power Conversion Solutions business unit under the Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) at ON Semiconductor. He works on product definition, emulation, silicon evaluation and reference design development. Nikhilesh joined ON Semiconductor in February 2015. Nikhilesh holds a master of science in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and a bachelor of technology in electrical and electronics engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India. | | Articles written by Nikhilesh Kamath in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/20 | Modeling Digitally Controlled PFCs Made Easy |
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| Saichiro Kaneko
 | Saichiro Kaneko is chief engineer at Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions. Since 2011, he has been leading GaN power device design and reliability. Recently, Kaneko's presentation on current-collapse won the Best Paper Award at ISPSD 2015. From 1996 to 2011, he worked on the research and development of silicon lateral IGBTs and SiC wide-bandgap semiconductors. Kaneko graduated from Yokohama National University in 1996. | | Articles written by Saichiro Kaneko in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/15 | Novel GIT Structure Solves Current Collapse In GaN Power HEMTs |
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| Mike Kania
 | Mike Kania is currently the business development manager for Eltek, a provider of power electronics and energy conversion products. Mike has been with Eltek and Valere (a power supply company acquired by Eltek) for more than eight years. In this role, Mike's focus has been on the introduction of state-of-the-art dc power systems technology into new applications and new market segments. Much of his work has been associated with the introduction of high-efficiency rectifier technology and the business cases that accompany its utilization. This has included the development of products designed for telecom applications such as switching centers, wireless cell sites, and broadband access systems. Most recently, Mike has focused on the introduction of switch-mode rectifier systems into traditional industrial markets such as power generation and distribution; railroads; oil and gas; water and wastewater; mining; and industrial processing. | | Articles written by Mike Kania in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/12 | Switch-Mode Rectifier Technology Reshapes Industrial Battery Charging |
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| Martin Kanner
 | Martin Kanner is a leader in the fields of motion control, switching supplies, feedback and feedfoward control systems. He holds a BSAE, a BSEE, and an MSEE, all from NYU. Kanner is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi honorary societies and also holds three patents. | | Articles written by Martin Kanner in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/16 | Power Transformer Design Simplified—Really! |
| 06/13/14 | Cutting Power Transformer Size In Half While Doubling Transistor Efficiency: It's All In The Topology |
| 11/15/13 | Everything You Wanted To Know About Copper Wire But Didn't Know To Ask |
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| Suresh Kariyadan
 | Suresh Kariyadan joined International Rectifier in June 2009 as senior staff engineer for POL Applications, Enterprise Power Business Unit (EPBU) where he is responsible for all Point Of Load customer support for the EPBU. The role involves understanding the customer’s power supply requirements, providing reference designs, layout of PCBs, design verification tests, troubleshooting customer application boards and evaluating new product performance in application circuits.
Prior to joining International Rectifier, Suresh held senior engineering positions with Maxim Integrated Products and Cherokee International. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Kerala University, India. | | Articles written by Suresh Kariyadan in How2Power Today: |
| 01/27/12 | Voltage-Mode Control Scheme Improves Buck Converter Performance At High Frequencies |
| 07/30/10 | How to Control Phase Voltage Ringing in Synchronous Buck Convertors |
| 02/19/10 | Reverse-Current Phenomenon in Synchronous Rectifiers |
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| Hrag Kasparian
 | Hrag Kasparian, who joined Texas Instruments over 10 years ago, currently serves as a power applications engineer, designing custom dc-dc switch-mode power supplies. Previously, he worked on development of battery packs, chargers, and electric vehicle (EV) battery management systems at a startup company in Silicon Valley. Hrag graduated from San Jose State University with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Hrag Kasparian in How2Power Today: |
| 05/13/22 | Adjust The Output Of An Inverting Buck-Boost Regulator Without Level Shifting |
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| Matthias Kasper
 | Since January 2017, Matthias Kasper has been part of the Systems Innovations Lab at Infineon Technologies Austria where in his role as lead principal engineer he works on novel topologies, control schemes, and multi-objective optimization routines. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 scientific publications and holds 12 international patents. Matthias received the M.sc. and Dr.sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| Marian K. Kazimierczuk
 | Marian K. Kazimierczuk received the M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sci. degrees in electronics engineering from the Department of Electronics, Technical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, in 1971, 1978, and 1984, respectively. He is currently a professor of electrical engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, OH. His areas of research are in high-frequency high-efficiency RF power amplifiers, resonant and PWM dc-dc power converters, high-frequency rectifiers, modeling and control of converters, high-frequency magnetics, power semiconductor devices, electronic ballasts, RF transmitters, sensors, and superconductivity. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has published more than 230 papers | | Articles written by Marian K. Kazimierczuk in How2Power Today: |
| 12/22/11 | Power Electronic Circuitry In LED Modules: An Overview |
| 05/27/10 | Effects of Load Changes On The Control-to-Output Transfer Function Of A Buck-Boost Converter In CCM |
| 02/19/10 | An Overview and Simulation of DC-DC-AC and Z-Source Grid Connected Inverters |
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| Sameer Kelkar
 | Sameer Kelkar joined Power Integrations in 2002 and is currently a senior applications engineer. He has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. | | Articles written by Sameer Kelkar in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/10 | Software Speeds Transformer Design For AC-DC Power Supplies |
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| Ramesh Khanna
 | Ramesh Khanna is a senior applications engineer with Texas Instruments' High Reliability group where he is responsible for supporting customer design issues. Ramesh has more than 30 years of industry experience. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Concordia University (Montreal, PQ, Canada) and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). Ramesh can be reached at ti_rameshkhanna@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Ramesh Khanna in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Tips For Applying POL Converters In Downhole A nd Other Harsh Environments |
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| Sagar Khare
 | Sagar Khare is a business manager with the Battery Powered Solutions Business Unit at Maxim Integrated, now part of Analog Devices. He has wide-ranging experience in embedded power conversion, renewable energy and battery management. Sagar holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University and a master of business administration from Arizona State University. | | Articles written by Sagar Khare in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/21 | A Standalone Controller Eases Compliance With USB PD Standards |
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| Paul Kierstead
 | Paul Kierstead has been in the semiconductor business since 1984. He has held engineering and marketing positions in the high-speed interface and interconnect sectors and most recently has been dedicated to power semiconductor devices. Paul has lead efforts in power market analysis, developed market and product strategies and has driven marketing business development efforts. Paul joined Cree SiC Power Products Group in 2008 as the director of marketing. In that role, he is responsible for Cree’s global SiC business development, applications support and new product strategy. Prior to joining Cree, Paul was employed by Fairchild and National Semiconductor. | | Articles written by Paul Kierstead in How2Power Today: |
| 08/30/12 | Silicon Carbide Power Solutions Are Ready To Revolutionize Motor Drives |
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| Scott Kim
 | Scott Kim is an executive business manager for Maxim’s mobile power business unit. He has 20 years of semiconductor industry experience, holding positions in business management, marketing, and applications engineering. Scott graduated from KAIST with an MBA. | | Articles written by Scott Kim in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | Receiver Chip Implements Efficient, Flexible Wireless Charging For Wearables |
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| Jonathan Kimball
 | Dr. Jonathan Kimball received a BS from Carnegie Mellon in 1994 and an MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. He then worked in industry, first for Motorola (designing IGBT modules) and then for Baldor (designing industrial motor drives). Kimball returned to the University of Illinois as a research engineer in 2003. He subsequently co-founded SmartSpark Energy Systems (now named SolarBridge Technologies). After receiving a PhD from Illinois in 2007, he joined Missouri S&T as an assistant professor. Kimball's research interests include photovoltaic systems, hydrokinetic energy, and digital control of power converter systems. | |
| Isik C. Kizilyalli
 | Isik C. Kizilyalli is the CTO and founder of Avogy. Prior to founding Avogy, he held technical and management positions at Bell Laboratories (AT&T and Lucent Technologies), Agere Systems, Nitronex, and Alta Devices. His research, development, and commercialization experience covers a broad range of semiconductor materials (Si, GaAs, InP, and GaN), devices, and technologies (CMOS, BiCMOS, HFETs, detectors, HBT, photovoltaics). Kizilyalli is a fellow of the IEEE and was the recipient of the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award by Bell Laboratories. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Kizilyalli has published 100 technical papers and has 45 U.S. patents. | |
| Aniruddha Kolarkar
 | Aniruddha Kolarkar is an applications marketer at onsemi responsible for industrial solutions and factory automation. He has over eight years of experience in analog and power electronics solutions, supporting high power op-amps, gate drivers, power modules and power management solutions as a field application engineer. Aniruddha holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. | | Articles written by Aniruddha Kolarkar in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
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| Stefan Kosterec
 | Stefan Kosterec is an application engineer at the Systems Engineering Center ON Semiconductor. Stefan joined ON Semiconductor in 2013. Previously, he spent eight years at Siemens PSE as ASIC/FPGA designer where he developed digital solutions targeted for various areas, among others communications, power conversion and motor control. He spent also two years at Vacuumschmelze acting as inductive components designer and also took a role of product integrity engineer at Emerson Energy Systems responsible for verification of telecom power systems. Stefan has a master’s degree in Applied informatics from the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology of Slovak Technical University Trnava. | | Articles written by Stefan Kosterec in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
| 08/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 5): Control Algorithms, Modulation Schemes And Feedback |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Oleksiy Kravchenko
 | Oleksiy Kravchenko has over 10 years of experience in electronics including repair, debug, and modification work. His interests include microcontrollers, system automation and analog and digital electronics. Among his current activities, Oleksiy writes application notes for Dialog Semiconductor. Oleksiy graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University in the Ukraine where he studied in the Department of Medical and Biomedical Electronics. | | Articles written by Oleksiy Kravchenko in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/19 | Configurable IC Simplifies Conversion Of Temperature To Frequency |
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| Philip T. Krein
 | Philip T. Krein received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the A.B. degree in economics and business from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He was an engineer with Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, then returned to the University of Illinois. At present he holds the Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric
Machinery and Electromechanics as director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics. His research interests address all aspects of power electronics, machines, and drives, with emphasis on nonlinear control approaches. He published an undergraduate textbook, Elements of Power Electronics (Oxford University Press, 1998). In 2001, he helped initiate the International Future Energy Challenge, a major student competition involving fuel cell power conversion and energy efficiency for machines. He holds twelve U.S. and four European patents. Dr. Krein is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and in Oregon. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom in 1997-98, and was recognized as a University Scholar in 1999, the highest research award at the University of Illinois. In 2003 he received the IEEE William E. Newell Award in Power Electronics. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. | | Articles written by Philip T. Krein in How2Power Today: |
| 06/29/10 | Comprehensive Flux Estimator Implementation Procedures For Advanced Control Of Inverter-Fed Induction Machines |
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| Nihal Kularatna
 | Nihal Kularatna (SM’98) is an associate professor in electrical engineering lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. A recipient of the New Zealand innovator of the year award for 2013, his electronic engineering career spans 42 years. He is currently active in research in supercapacitor applications, power supply topologies, transient propagation and the power conditioning area in power electronics. Kularatna has contributed over 130 papers to journals and international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored eight books and several of them are in power electronics. His latest book, “Energy Storage Devices for Electronic Systems: Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors,” was published in 2015 by Elsevier AP, USA. Multiple patents were granted for his supercapacitor-assisted circuit topologies after 2011. Prior to migrating to New Zealand in 2002, Kularatna was the CEO of the Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies in Sri Lanka. | | Articles written by Nihal Kularatna in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | Circumventing Loss In An RC Circuit Leads To More Efficient Power Converters |
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| Santosh Kulkarni
 | Santosh Kulkarni is a principle investigator in the area of Thin film Magnetics for Power Supplies at the Micro-Nano Systems Center, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. To date, Kulkarni has been successful in winning over €4.5M in research grants from government agencies and industry. Kulkarni has published one book chapter and over 55 publications in international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has so far filed two patents, one of which has been licensed to a large multinational company. | | Articles written by Santosh Kulkarni in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/15 | Nano-Magnetics For High Efficiency Power Supplies |
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| Rachit Kumar
 | Rachit Kumar is a senior applications engineer at the Systems Engineering Center at ON Semiconductor. Rachit joined ON Semiconductor in 2020. Rachit has been engaged for more than ten years on embedded software development focusing on motor control algorithms. Prior to joining ON Semiconductor, Rachit worked at Nanotec Electronics doing embedded systems development for low power BLDC and stepper motor controllers. Rachit has a master’s degree in mechatronics from the University of Applied Sciences, Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany. | | Articles written by Rachit Kumar in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
| 08/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 5): Control Algorithms, Modulation Schemes And Feedback |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Benjamin Lampe
 | Benjamin Lampe is an applications engineer at Maxim Integrated. He holds a BSEE degree from Santa Clara University, where he is also pursuing his MSEE. | | Articles written by Benjamin Lampe in How2Power Today: |
| 06/17/19 | Verifying Error Budget Analysis For A Buck Converter—On The Bench |
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| Raleigh Lan
 | Rayleigh Lan is a senior principle member of Technical Staff at Maxim Integrated. His areas of interest are power management theoretical analysis and applications of analog products and motor drivers. He holds several patents and has published several articles in the field. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from National Taiwan University. | |
| Alain Laprade
 | Alain Laprade received an MEng in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montréal in 1984. Since then he has worked in power supply development for commercial, telecommunication, automotive, and aerospace applications as an applications engineer. In 2010, he relocated to Rhode Island to join ON Semiconductor's Analog Power Group New Product Development team. | | Articles written by Alain Laprade in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/23 | A Novel Lead Network Improves Performance Of Buck Controllers With Fixed Compensation |
| 07/15/14 | Enhanced OTA Models Improve Design Of Feedback Compensation Networks |
| 03/15/13 | Simplified Analysis Of A DCM Boost Converter Driving An LED String Part II: Practical Considerations |
| 02/15/13 | Simplified Analysis Of A DCM Boost Converter Driving An LED String Part I: Theoretical Analysis |
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| Jim Larrauri
 | Jim Larrauri is chief strategy officer, executive director and co-founder of Freebird Semiconductor. Larrauri has 30 years’ experience in the space-level high-reliability industry where he has worked in applications engineering, and strategic product and business development. He has expertise in a number of areas including open architecture VME, power semiconductors, power hybrids and radiation effects. He is currently advancing wide-bandgap high electron mobility gallium nitride (GaN) materials at Freebird Semiconductor as co-inventor and patent holder to a multi-function power control circuit using enhancement mode GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) patent # 10,122,274. | | Articles written by Jim Larrauri in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/19 | How To Drive Rad Hard E-Mode GaN Transistors Efficiently And Safely |
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| Bill Laumeister
 | Bill Laumeister is an engineer in strategic applications with the Precision Control Group at Maxim Integrated Products. He works with customers who use DACs, digital potentiometers, and voltage references. He has more than 30 years of experience and holds several patents. | | Articles written by Bill Laumeister in How2Power Today: |
| 11/21/12 | Beyond Power Management: Power Engineers Must Also Solve ESD, EMI, And RFI Problems |
| 11/30/11 | Self-Starting Can Be Hard To Do–Understanding Power-On-Reset Requirements In Regulators And Bandgaps |
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| Brian LaValle
 | Brian LaValle is marketing manager for industrial MOSFETs in the Power Management Devices business unit at International Rectifier. | | Articles written by Brian LaValle in How2Power Today: |
| 01/16/14 | RoHS and Power MOSFETs: An Evolving Standard Influences Package Selections Now And In The Future |
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| Tom Lawson
 | Tom Lawson has been involved with instrumentation since 1968. During the 1970s he worked in medical electronics with Bill Morong, the principal inventor of predictive energy balancing. During the 1980s and 90s he built his own instrumentation company. Since rejoining with Bill Morong, the focus has been power conversion. Lawson started CogniPower in 2009 to begin the commercialization process. Lawson is named on eight issued patents and five patents pending, spanning four decades. | | Articles written by Tom Lawson in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/19 | Surprisingly Simple Control Method Slashes Vampire Power |
| 11/15/14 | Actively Managed Storage Capacitor Offers Host Of Benefits In AC-DC And DC-DC Applications |
| 05/15/14 | New Topology Eliminates Extra Stage Normally Required For PFC |
| 03/15/13 | Better Than Class D: Predictive Energy Balancing Can Boost Efficiency And Fidelity Of Cell Phone Audio Amplifiers |
| 01/27/12 | Predictive Energy Balancing Enhances Control of Power Converters |
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| Eric (Sangyong) Lee
 | Eric (Sangyong) Lee is an applications engineer at Texas Instruments where he has worked on constant on-time (COT) buck controllers, emulated current-mode synchronous buck and multiphase synchronous boosts. Eric received his Master's degree in Power Electronics & Electrical Machinery from Konkuk University in South Korea. | |
| Eddie Lee
 | Eddie Lee is the director of Business Management in the Core Power Management group at Maxim Integrated. Before joining Maxim, he served as senior product marketing manager at Fairchild and ON Semiconductor. Eddie has more than 20 years of industry experience including different engineering positions at Intersil, Advanced Analogic Tech, and Finisar. He has a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Ryerson University in Canada and a master’s degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University. | | Articles written by Eddie Lee in How2Power Today: |
| 02/14/20 | More-Efficient Boost Converter Extends Battery Life For Wearable Medical Patches |
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| Julie J. Lee
 | Julie J. Lee holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Wright State University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, and working as a research assistant and a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at WSU. Her research interests are in power electronics, PWM dc-dc converters, and power semiconductors. Ms. Lee is a member of Tau Beta Pi and an IEEE student member. | | Articles written by Julie J. Lee in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/10 | Effects of Load Changes On The Control-to-Output Transfer Function Of A Buck-Boost Converter In CCM |
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| Peter Lee
 | Peter Lee is a veteran design expert in space power electronics, having spent over four decades engineering rad-hard hermetic hybrid power conversion solutions for International Rectifier HiRel Products, an Infineon Technologies company. He previously directed a research and development team creating a portfolio of space hybrid dc-dc converters that have become standards for space systems. In his current role, he is actively involved in mentoring and educating the next generation of engineers for the company. He believes that product reliability must be an engineer’s first priority. Peter holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley. | | Articles written by Peter Lee in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/21 | Predicting Mission Life Performance And Reliability Of Rad-Hard Power Electronics |
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| Brooks Leman
 | Brooks Leman, senior principal member of technical staff at Maxim Integrated, has been developing and applying switching power conversion techniques in Silicon Valley for over 36 years. He holds several patents and has published dozens of technical conference papers, magazine articles, and application notes. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Santa Clara University where he also teaches a power conversion graduate course. | | Articles written by Brooks Leman in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/18 | Online Simulation Validates Output Error Budget Analysis For Buck Converter |
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| Leonard Leslie
 | Leonard G. Leslie, Jr. received the B.S. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001 and M.S. degree from the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech 2002. He is currently the manager of Space Product Engineering at VPT Inc. in Blacksburg, Va. Leonard has combined his experience in the Navy Nuclear Power Program and power electronics design to develop and validate custom and standard radiation-hardened dc-dc converter solutions to support the space industry. | | Articles written by Leonard Leslie in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/14 | Using Ruggedized EMI Filters To Pass The CS101 Requirement Of MIL-STD-461D-F |
| 01/17/13 | Rad Hard Processors And Power Converters Propel Intermediate Bus Architecture Into Space Applications |
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| David Levett
 | David Levett has worked for 25 years in the field power electronics specializing in the design of IGBT-based power converters. He has experience with switched reluctance, servo, induction, and modular drive systems in the 5- to 500-Hp power range. David has also designed grid tie and vehicle traction converters. David has worked for the last nine years as a design and applications engineer for Infineon Technologies in North America. He holds a PhD. In Electrical Engineering Motor Drives from the University of Southampton. | | Articles written by David Levett in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/17 | Boosting Efficiency, Reliability And Affordability Of EV-Drivetrain Power Modules |
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| Phill Leyva
| Phill Leyva is a principal member of technical staff at Maxim Integrated. He joined the company in 1999 and is now an expert in isolated power-supply, power over Ethernet (PoE), and hot-swap designs. Phill has a BSEE from San Jose State University in California. | | Articles written by Phill Leyva in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/15 | Two PSE Controllers Deliver 80 W For Class 5 PoE Power Injector |
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| Jie Li
 | Jie Li is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. His research interests include high-frequency power conversion, wireless power transfer and magnetics design. Li received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2014. | | Articles written by Jie Li in How2Power Today: |
| 02/14/20 | GaN-Based Wireless Power Enables Efficient, Seamless Multi-Device Charging |
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| Fuxiang Lin
 | Fuxiang Lin currently lives in Sydney, Australia where he has been engaged in research on power factor correction and ways to improve power supply efficiency since 2011. Prior to that Lin worked at Yongxiang Electronic Ltd as electronics engineer and, before that, as an electronics technician at Acon Technology Ptd, after moving to Australia in 2001. Previously, he worked as an electrical engineer in China from 1985 to 1995. Lin received a BE degree from South China University of Technology in 1985 and an ME degree from Zhejiang University in 1991. He can be reached at frankmailid@yahoo.com. | | Articles written by Fuxiang Lin in How2Power Today: |
| 12/16/13 | Single-Stage PFC Topology Employs Two-Transformer Approach For Improved Efficiency, Reliability, And Cost |
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| Fuyong Lin
 | Fuyong Lin is a professor at the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian, China. He received a BE Degree From Agriculture University of Fujian Province, an MS Degree from South China University of Technology, and a Ph.D from Tianjin university. Lin can be reached at fylin@hqu.edu.cn. | | Articles written by Fuyong Lin in How2Power Today: |
| 12/16/13 | Single-Stage PFC Topology Employs Two-Transformer Approach For Improved Efficiency, Reliability, And Cost |
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| Alex Lin
 | Alex Lin is an application engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor's PCIA computing product line. He has been with Fairchild for about six years. Alex holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. | | Articles written by Alex Lin in How2Power Today: |
| 09/28/12 | A More-Efficient Half-Bridge LLC Resonant Converter: Four Methods For Controlling The MOSFET |
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| Dongming Liu
 | Dongming Liu is a principal member of the Technical Staff at Maxim Integrated, which he joined in 2005. Liu has a master's degree in Microelectronics from Beijing University in China. | | Articles written by Dongming Liu in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/14 | Controller IC Implements Compact, Power-Saving Solution For Hot-Swapping And Active ORing In Telecom Systems |
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| Adnaan Lokhandwala
 | Adnaan Lokhandwala is product manager, consumer isolated power, at Texas Instruments where he is responsible for understanding market and customer needs for new ICs and driving new product roadmaps for ac-dc consumer power. He received the MSEE and MSCE degrees from the University of Illinois, Chicago. | | Articles written by Adnaan Lokhandwala in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/14 | Raising The Bar For Flyback Primary-Side Regulation: Enabling Accurate CV-CC Solutions From 5 W To 150 W |
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| Peter Losee
 | Peter Losee is currently the manager of Device Technology Development at UnitedSiC. He has spent the past 18 years in the research and development of SiC power devices including vertical JFETs, SiC MOSFETs and various types of power diodes. Losee holds two dozen U.S. patents and has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed papers in his field of work. He has also been a member of a variety of key technical program committees including ISPSD, IRPS, WiPDA and ICSCRM. Losee received his MS and PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. | | Articles written by Peter Losee in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Versatile SiC JFETs Benefit Power Switching And Circuit Protection Applications |
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| Jean-Paul Louvel
 | Jean-Paul Louvel joined ON Semiconductor in March 2007 as a senior system application engineer working on overall system solutions. Since developing the LIPS solution for CCFL backlights, Jean-Paul has worked on new solutions for reduced standby power consumption and a specific solution for very high supply voltage (mainly for e-metering applications.) He also develops new TV power solutions. One of them is a simple primary-side-regulated solution for single-edge LED string backlights. With ON Semiconductor, he holds four issued U.S. patents pertinent to control techniques, with three others pending. Prior to joining ON, Jean-Paul spent three years with TCL Multimedia and over 22 years with Thomson Multimedia in Germany where he performed power development work (mainly for TVs). Overall, he holds over 30 patents pertinent to power conversion. | | Articles written by Jean-Paul Louvel in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/16 | Meeting The Standby Power Specification In LED TVs With A Single Power Supply |
| 05/15/15 | Pre-Regulator Design Protects High-Voltage Power Supplies From Phase Faults (Part Two) |
| 01/15/15 | Pre-Regulator Design Protects High-Voltage Power Supplies From Phase Faults (Part One) |
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| Michelle Lozada
 | Michelle Lozada leads digital marketing communications for IR HiRel. | | Articles written by Michelle Lozada in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/23 | Rad-Hard P-Channel FETs: A Simpler And More-Reliable Solution For Power Distribution In Space |
| 11/15/21 | MOSFET Packaging Innovations For SWaP-Optimized Space Power Systems |
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| Greg Lubarsky
 | Greg Lubarsky is a senior applications engineer with National Semiconductor's Grass Valley design center and works in the Mobile Devices Power group. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2002. Lubarsky has over seven years of experience as an applications engineer working with white LED backlight drivers, LED flash drivers and other power management electronics. | | Articles written by Greg Lubarsky in How2Power Today: |
| 10/27/11 | A Holistic Approach To Reducing Backlight Power Consumption |
| 11/24/09 | Give Your Battery A Rest With A Supercapacitor-based Power Subsystem |
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| Yanping Ma
 | Yanping Ma is currently the head of Quality and Reliability at Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). She received her Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Prior to joining EPC, she held various engineering positions in silicon component R&D at International Rectifier. | | Articles written by Yanping Ma in How2Power Today: |
| 10/22/10 | How2 Understand eGaN Transistor Reliability |
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| Eric Macris
 | Eric Macris is founder and chief technology officer of Element Energy. Prior to founding Element Energy, Eric was a co-founder of Spring Automotive, a developer of plug-in hybrid drivetrains, and launched the business services branch of Current Communications, a smart-grid technology and service provider. He also worked in the Clinton White House as the lead financial analyst for federal research and development programs. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA, and an MPA degree from Princeton University. | | Articles written by Eric Macris in How2Power Today: |
| 12/20/12 | Hardware-Software Architecture Improves Performance Of Large, Battery-Powered Systems |
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| Arindam Maitra
 | Arindam Maitra is a senior project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is responsible for leading and managing activities related to the power system infrastructure requirements for plug-in hybrid vehicles. He is also conducting and managing numerous research activities associated with power systems and power electronics. Prior to joining the Electric Transportation group, Maitra worked as a senior project manager in the System Analysis and System Studies group, conducting and managing a wide range of research activities and power system studies in the transmission, distribution, power quality, and IntelliGrid research areas. Maitra holds two patents for the Intelligent Universal Transformer design topology and one patent in solid-state switchgear topology. Maitra received his B.E. degree from the Regional Engineering College, Nagpur, India, and holds an M.S. and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University. Maitra is also a recipient of the 2005 and 2010 Chauncey Award. | | Articles written by Arindam Maitra in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/12 | Utility Direct Technology Boosts Efficiency Of Fast Charging For Electric Vehicles |
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| Amitabha Mallik
 | Amitabha Mallik received his Bachelor's of Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum, India in 2008. He is pursuing his MTech at MIT, Manipal University, Manipal, India, in Power Electronics Systems and Control. He is currently working at Strategic Technology Group, Pune, India. His areas of interests are power semiconductor devices, motor drives and control, PWM dc-dc converters, and OrCAD/PSPICE (system-level simulations). | |
| T. K. Man
 | T. K. Man received the BSc (Hon) degree at Manchester Polytechnic in 1984, MSc degree in engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 and MSc degree in IC Design Engineering at Hong Kong Science and Technology University in 2007. Man has 22 years experience in power supply design, both linear and switching. He joined National Semiconductor in 2004 as a product application manager in Hong Kong. Prior to National, Man worked at Motorola and ON Semiconductor. His research interests include control modeling of SMPS, LED lighting systems and energy harvest technology. He is a senior member of IEEE. | |
| Ryan Manack
 | Ryan Manack is the power systems engineering manager in System Engineering and Marketing. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin. | | Articles written by Ryan Manack in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/16 | Conventional Buck Vs. High-Frequency Series-Capacitor Buck: Who Wins? |
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| John Mandelcorn
 | Josh Mandelcorn is a member of the Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments where his focus is on low-power isolated and nonisolated converters. With more than 30 years of power supply/system experience, Josh has either invented or co-invented 17 U.S. patents. Josh received his BSEE from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1998 he was appointed Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs. Josh can be reached at ti_joshmandelcorn[at]list.ti.com. | |
| Lazo M. Manojlović
 | Lazo M. Manojlović is currently a full professor with Zrenjanin Technical College, Serbia and also writes application notes for Dialog Semiconductor. His current research interests include interferometry, optical sensing systems, and laser rangefinders. Manojlović received the B.Sc.E.E. and M.Sc.E.E. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, all in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Lazo M. Manojlović in How2Power Today: |
| 08/16/18 | Simple Solar Tracking Sensor Is Self-Powered |
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| Oscar Mansilla
 | Oscar Mansilla is director of Discrete and IC Space Power Products for IR HiRel, where he leads development of new silicon and GaN-based FET solutions for the space industry. | | Articles written by Oscar Mansilla in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/23 | Rad-Hard P-Channel FETs: A Simpler And More-Reliable Solution For Power Distribution In Space |
| 11/15/21 | MOSFET Packaging Innovations For SWaP-Optimized Space Power Systems |
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| Vincenzo Marano
 | Vincenzo Marano is a system and application manager in the Industrial and Power Conversion Division, STMicroelectronics. He received a degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2000 and then joined STMicroelectronics. His main focus is on motor drivers, MOS/IGBT drivers and industrial ICs. He is the author of papers and holds several patents on motor control ICs and architectures. | | Articles written by Vincenzo Marano in How2Power Today: |
| 01/27/12 | System-On-Chip Architecture Raises Performance Of Microstepping Motor Driver Designs |
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| Michelangelo Marchese
 | Michelangelo Marchese is a technical marketing engineer in the Industrial & Power Conversion Division of STMicroelectronics. He is based in Catania (Italy). Marchese joined the company in 1997 as a front-end engineer for smartpower devices, then became a marketing engineer for Intelligent Power Switches (IPS) for industrial. He is also experienced in software development for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). | | Articles written by Michelangelo Marchese in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/17 | Smart High-Side Switches Ease Safety Compliance For Industrial IoT |
| 11/30/11 | Use Intelligent High-Side Power Switch To Satisfy Safety Requirements In Process Control And Industrial Automation |
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| Tony Marini
| See dtm Associates in Consultants Corner | | Articles written by Tony Marini in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/23 | GaN HEMT Package Improves Paralleling Of Devices In Space Power Applications |
| 11/15/19 | How To Drive Rad Hard E-Mode GaN Transistors Efficiently And Safely |
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| Peter Markowski
 | Peter Markowski has been involved with power supply design since graduating in 1990 with an advanced degree in power electronics. Most of his career he worked for Emerson, formerly Artesyn and Computer Products as a product designer and advanced technology engineer. Recently, Peter has been involved in high-performance FPGA digital controllers and very high bandwidth, purely switched-mode envelope tracking voltage modulators. This year he started the consulting business Envelope Power LLC. Peter is the author of 11 U.S. patents and several applications encompassing various aspects of the power conversion engineering. | | Articles written by Peter Markowski in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/14 | 3D FEA Software Solves Tough Inductive Noise Problems |
| 09/15/14 | Latest Generation Of 3D Electromagnetic Finite Element Analysis Software With Breakthrough Simplicity Facilitates Magnetic Component Design |
| 08/15/14 | FPGA-Based Controller Plus Integrated Power Stage Builds Envelope Tracking Modulator With No Compromises |
| 07/15/14 | Simple Method Of Implementing Digital Loop Compensation In An FPGA |
| 06/15/14 | FPGA-Based Power Controllers Offer Greater Speed And Computational Power Than Microcontrollers And DSPs |
| 04/15/14 | Power Supply Control With FPGAs: Model-Based Design With Matlab, Simulink And DSP Builder |
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| Mitch Marks
 | Mitch Marks is the motor testing specialist for HBM Test and Measurement where he serves as a business developer and application expert for electric motor testing. This role continuously brings him to many labs in many different industries across the country offering him a unique perspective on some of the best practices for designing a motor test cell. In previous roles, he ran a power research lab, focusing on distributed grids and traction motor testing. Mitch received bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison WEMPEC program for electric motors and drives. | | Articles written by Mitch Marks in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/19 | Dynamic Motor Power Measurement Enables In-Vehicle Testing Of EVs |
| 09/14/18 | Dynamic Torque Measurement Reveals True Electric Machine Characteristics |
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| John Marshall
 | Employed by AVX Ltd since April 1983 and based in the Coleraine manufacturing facility in Norhern Ireland, John Marshall serves as technical liaison on the Space PME Product Materials, Product Engineering and Development where he provides technical support for the AVX Space and Aerospace BME ceramic capacitor development programs through Materials, Process Engineering, Screening Techniques and Reliability programs. John is also a customer technical liaison and assists with design-in for projects utilizing BME capacitor products within the U.S.A and Asia regions with particular emphasis on the space and aerospace ceramic capacitor market and the automotive ceramic capacitor customer base. Additionally, John has held various responsibilities in the Process Engineering, Production and Quality areas and several years as Manufacturing and Operations manager. He holds a BSc degree from Queens University, a PgDip from the University of Ulster, and an MSc from the University of Ulster as well as a CEng. M.I.E.T. | | Articles written by John Marshall in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/19 | Base Metal Electrodes Reduce Size And Weight Of MLCCs In Satellites |
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| Daniel Martin
 | Daniel Martin is the manager for Power Module Applications at Wolfspeed where his team supports power module integration through the development of application notes, gate drivers, and evaluation kits. He has been utilizing high-speed SiC and GaN devices in power electronic systems for over eight years. Daniel’s experience utilizing SiC in a variety of applications has enabled insight into device behavior, optimized power module packaging, optimal gate driver control/design, and system-level optimization to fully enable the utilization of SiC devices. | | Articles written by Daniel Martin in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Increasing Power Density In Three-Phase Inverters With Direct-Cooled SiC Power Modules |
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| Alfonso Martínez
 | Alfonso Martínez served for five years as the CTO of Frenetic and is the creator of Auto Planar. He has more than 13 years of technical experience spread between the electronic engineering and computer science fields. In 2018 he co-founded Frenetic in Spain where he has been responsible for developing its AI-based tool for designing magnetic components. In this role he began learning about power electronics and detected an opportunity for automation of planar magnetics layout, which led to his creation of AutoPlanar. Prior to this, Alfonso cofounded the start-up Swarm64 in Berlin, where he created an FPGA-based architecture to optimize the performance of databases. Alfonso holds an MSc in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. | | Articles written by Alfonso Martínez in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/22 | Roshen’s Models Offer An Advanced Approach To Modeling Core Losses |
| 04/15/22 | A Guide To Automating Layout Of Planar Magnetic Designs |
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| Fahad Masood
 | Fahad Masood is a member of technical staff for Health and Medical Biosensing Applications at Analog Devices. He has nearly a decade of experience in electronics development for healthcare, computing, and industrial applications. Fahad earned a BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a focus on Biomedical Electronics. | | Articles written by Fahad Masood in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/22 | Power Supply Design Considerations For Patient Monitoring Patches |
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| Christophe Massenet
 | Christophe Massenet has spent the last 16 years in various electrical engineering positions, designing and managing aerospace and telecom programs with multiple power supply, RF, mechanical and thermal constraints. As the head of Gaia Converter's USA operations, he brings engineers local application, technical and logistic support. Christophe holds masters degrees in electrical engineering and business administration. | | Articles written by Christophe Massenet in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/13 | Hold-Up Modules Reduce Capacitance Requirements For High-Rel Power Supplies |
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| Rob McCarthy
 | Rob McCarthy has been with Maxim since 2011 as a field application engineer in the Chicago area. He has 30 years of design and application experience including stints at Snap-on Tools, Harris Corporation and TI. In his free time he enjoys bicycling and fishing the rivers of Illinois. | | Articles written by Rob McCarthy in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/15 | Take The Edge Off High dV/dt Supplies |
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| Colonel W. T. McLyman
 | A recognized authority in the field of magnetics design with 47 years of experience, Colonel McLyman is an accomplished inventor, author, and lecturer. He holds fourteen U.S. Patents on magnetics-related concepts and has written four popular textbooks including the recently revised and expanded, Third Edition of Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook.
McLyman retired as a senior member of the Avionics Equipment Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In his thirty years at JPL in power conversion and as the magnetics specialist, McLyman wrote over seventy JPL Technical Memorandums, New Technology Reports, and Tech-Briefs on the subject of magnetics and circuit designs for power conversion, fifty of which have been published by NASA. McLyman is President of Kg Magnetics, Inc., which specializes in power magnetics design. | | Articles written by Colonel W. T. McLyman in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/09 | Designing the Sine Wave Quiet Converter |
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| Ty McNutt
 | Ty McNutt currently serves as director of Business Development & Marketing for Wolfspeed Power Modules. He works closely with customers and their applications teams to integrate SiC device and packaging technologies into power electronic systems. He is an inventor on eight issued patents on SiC materials, devices, packaging, and applications, as well as author or co-author of over 70 publications on wide-bandgap devices. Ty has been working in the field of silicon carbide for 20 years. | | Articles written by Ty McNutt in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Increasing Power Density In Three-Phase Inverters With Direct-Cooled SiC Power Modules |
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| Jean-Jacques Meneu
 | Jean-Jacques Meneu is a technical marketing engineer in the Industrial & Power Conversion Division of STMicroelectronics. Since joining the company in 1997, he has focused on industrial applications. Meneu received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Superior Electronics School in Paris, France. | | Articles written by Jean-Jacques Meneu in How2Power Today: |
| 08/30/12 | Non-Dissipative Control Saves Power And Cost In Stepper Motor Applications |
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| Roy Mi
 | Roy Mi is an applications engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor's technical marketing team based in Chicago, Ill. He joined Fairchild after 20+ years working in various R&D positions in the power electronics industry. Roy graduated from National University of Singapore with an MSEE in power electronics. | | Articles written by Roy Mi in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/15 | Partial BCM Mode Of Operation Improves Efficiency For Primary-Side Regulated Flyback LED Driver |
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| Peter James Miller
 | Since receiving his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts, Peter James Miller has worked in TI's Power business group as an applications engineer, IC designer and systems engineer supporting nonisolated dc-dc controllers and converters. A member of TI's Technical Staff, Peter currently works in TI's High-Performance DC Solutions integrated FET team where he assists leading customers as they develop power solutions around TI's PMBus-enabled integrated FET converters. Peter is also involved with defining TI's next generation of PMBus-enabled power converters. | | Articles written by Peter James Miller in How2Power Today: |
| 03/13/15 | PMBus Gives Designers New Options For Meeting Adaptive Voltage Scaling Requirements |
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| John M. Miller
 | John M. Miller is owner and founder of J-N-J Miller Design Services PLLC, which was established in 2002 to provide professional consulting for industry. Miller has over 41 years of experience in electrical engineering across various industries that include automotive, aerospace, white goods, and electrical practice. He joined Momentum Dynamics Technical Advisory Board in 2014 as senior scientist working on wireless power transfer for heavy-duty vehicles. His previous work experience includes Distinguished R&D Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he held positions as director of the Power Electronics and Electric Power Systems Research Center, and served as program manager of the DOE Vehicular Technologies subprogram APEEM. Previously, Miller held various engineering and senior management positions at Maxwell Technologies, Ford Motor Company, and Texas Instruments. He has published several books related to wireless charging, ultracapacitor applications, propulsion systems for hybrid vehicles, automotive power electronics, and vehicular electric power systems. He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, M.S.E.E. from Southern Methodist University and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Miller is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the SAE, and a registered professional engineer. | | Articles written by John M. Miller in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/21 | Design, Development And Performance Of A Power Generating Suspension System For Energy Harvesting In Commercial Vehicles |
| 12/15/17 | High-Power Wireless Charging Of Heavy Duty EVs: Techniques, Challenges And Limitations |
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| Ignazio Mirabella
 | Ignazio Mirabella is the radiation design expert for the Space & High Rel Product Line within STMicroelectroncs’ GPA & RF division. In this role he is a key contributor to the development of devices suitable for operating in the space environment, studying and providing solutions applicable to analog and mixed-signal devices to increase their immunity to single event effects (SEE) and their hardening to TID effects. Previously, Ignazio was a HW design senior engineer in this division, dealing with the development of radiation-hardened devices in the field of STMicroelectronics research programs and in co-funded activities with the ESA. Before that, he worked for ST’s R&D department, developing logic devices for the space environment. Ignazio joined STMicroelectronics in 2000 after graduating in electronic engineering in 1999. He holds many patents filed in the U.S. and is co-author of papers presented in conferences and published in journals. | | Articles written by Ignazio Mirabella in How2Power Today: |
| 12/13/19 | Integrated Current Limiter Eases Power Protection In High-Voltage Space Applications |
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| Gregory Mirsky
 | Gregory Mirsky is a researcher working in Deer Park, Ill. In his current role, Gregory performs design verification on various projects, designs and implements new methods of electronic circuit analysis, and runs workshops on MathCAD 15 usage for circuit design and verification. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia. During his graduate work, Gregory designed hardware for the high-resolution spectrometer for research of highly compensated semiconductors and high-temperature superconductors. He also holds an MS degree from the Baltic State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia where he majored in missile and aircraft electronic systems. Gregory holds numerous patents and publications in technical and scientific magazines in Great Britain, Russia and the United States. Outside of work, Gregory's hobby is traveling, which is associated with his wife's business as a tour operator, and he publishes movies and pictures about his travels online. | | Articles written by Gregory Mirsky in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/24 | Output Filter Capacitor Size Depends On Inductor Value |
| 06/15/24 | A Guide To Designing Your Own Rogowski Sensor (Part 3) |
| 05/15/24 | A Guide To Designing Your Own Rogowski Sensor (Part 2) |
| 04/15/24 | A Guide To Designing Your Own Rogowski Sensor (Part 1) |
| 03/15/24 | The Laplace Transform Applies To Nonlinear, Time-Variant Functions Too |
| 01/15/24 | Laplace Transform Simplifies Analysis Of Realistic SMPS Waveforms |
| 11/15/23 | Inductor Saturation Model Supports Analysis Of Inductor And Transformer Designs |
| 10/15/23 | How To Remove Heat From A MOSFET Bridge Quickly |
| 06/15/23 | Inductor And Transformer Core Volumes Should Be Different—Even When Handling The Same Power |
| 03/15/23 | Calculating System Efficiency With Multiple Independent Power Modules |
| 02/15/23 | Analysis Of Core Hysteresis Loss Underscores Transformer Efficiency Challenges |
| 01/15/23 | Quasi-Resonant Vs. Resonant Operation—Which Has Better Power Utilization? |
| 11/15/22 | Why Phase-Shift Converters Are More Accurate Than PWM Converters |
| 10/15/22 | Assessing Cooling System Efficiency |
| 08/15/22 | Transformer Design Pitfalls (Part 2): Demonstrating Stepup Difficulties |
| 07/15/22 | Transformer Design Pitfalls: Stepup Is Not As Easy As Stepdown |
| 05/13/22 | Calculating Minimum Magnetic Core Size For A Transformer |
| 03/15/22 | Analysis Of Energy Storage Inductor Eases Converter Design |
| 01/14/22 | Resonant Current Source Powers Arbitrary Load |
| 11/15/21 | Stored Energy In A Saturating Inductor Is Not Constant |
| 10/15/21 | Understanding Supercapacitor Discharge Into A Constant Power Load |
| 08/15/21 | Zener Diode Selection For Faster Inductor Reset in Solenoid Circuits |
| 03/15/21 | Comparator Design: User-Defined Threshold With Asymmetrical Hysteresis |
| 01/15/21 | Using Volt-Second Integral Instead Of Winding Current To Predict Saturation |
| 11/16/20 | A Quick Way To Determine Power Supply Output Resistance |
| 08/14/20 | Highly Efficient LED Driver Tackles COVID But Also Benefits Lighting Applications |
| 08/14/20 | More About No-Load Operation In Current Transformers—Creating Real World Models |
| 05/15/20 | Understanding Core Magnetization In Current Transformers—Avoiding Saturation And Dangerous Output Voltage |
| 02/14/20 | Debunking The Gapped Inductor Myth |
| 01/17/20 | Injecting Noise In Power Supplies Improves Security For Communications Devices |
| 07/15/19 | The Op Amp-Based Differential Amplifier: Not As Easy As It Looks |
| 06/17/19 | A Methodical Approach To Snubber Design |
| 01/16/19 | Designing Energy Storing Inductors Properly |
| 11/15/18 | Managing Pulse Top Decay Improves Accuracy Of Current Sensing Circuits |
| 10/15/18 | Replacing Power Supply Output Capacitors Requires Equivalent Impedances |
| 04/17/18 | Switching Power Supplies And EMI: Debunking The Myths About Frequency And Slew Rate |
| 03/21/18 | To Simplify Or Not To Simplify? Take Care When Using Math Tools For Circuit Analysis |
| 10/16/17 | Modeling The Input Step Response Of A Power Converter |
| 07/15/17 | Using Duty Cycle To Detect Power Supply Overload (Part 4): The Circuit Block Diagram |
| 06/15/17 | Using Duty Cycle To Detect Power Supply Overload (Part 3): Accounting For A Variable Input Voltage |
| 05/16/17 | Using Duty Cycle To Detect Power Supply Overload (Part 2): A Practical Implementation |
| 04/17/17 | Using Duty Cycle To Detect Power Supply Overload (Part 1): Why It's Needed |
| 02/17/17 | Fast, Simple Solenoid Driver Saves Power In Industrial Applications |
| 11/15/16 | Generate Hysteresis Curves From Magnetic Core Datasheet Parameters |
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| Carmelo Mistretta
 | In his current role at STMicroelectronics in Catania, Carmelo Mistretta serves as an application engineer for motor control and SMPS applications with IGBT, high- and low-voltage MOSFETs. He has been working at ST since 2002, when he joined the company as an STM32 digital designer. | | Articles written by Carmelo Mistretta in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/21 | Advanced MOSFETs Improve Power Conversion In 48-V Mild Hybrid Systems |
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| Samantha Morehead
 | Samantha Morehead served as an application engineer, providing design assistance in addition to technical training and support for all of Maxim Integrated’s broad market products. Samantha joined the company after earning her BSEE from Santa Clara University. | | Articles written by Samantha Morehead in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/21 | A Standalone Controller Eases Compliance With USB PD Standards |
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| Aengus Murray
 | Aengus Murray is the motor and power control applications manager for the Automation, Energy and Sensors unit at Analog Devices. He is responsible for the complete Analog Devices signal chain offering for industrial motor and power control. Murray holds bachelor's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland. He has over 30 years of experience in the power electronics industry and has also worked with International Rectifier, Kollmorgen Industrial Drives and Dublin City University. | | Articles written by Aengus Murray in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/15 | Model-Based Design Streamlines Embedded Motor Control System Development |
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| Tom Neville
 | Tom Neville is a product planner and product marketing manager in Tektronix's Time Domain Business Unit. He has an MSEE from Portland State University and a BS degree from the United States Military Academy. Tom has worked at Tektronix for the past nine years with a focus on measurement solutions for power applications. | | Articles written by Tom Neville in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/16 | Optimize Half-Bridge Circuit Designs Through Accurate VGS Measurements |
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| Hui Nie
 | Hui Nie is the director of device technology at Avogy. He has spent nearly 20 years working on semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices; including GaAs, InP and InAlAs-based avalanche photodiodes (APD), PIN photodiodes, laser diodes and solar cells. Before Avogy, Nie was the lead solar cell designer at Alta Devices, and world recorder holder of the most efficient single-junction solar cell. He has held positions as director of product line management, director of advanced technology and senior engineer at Source Photonics, Finisar, Triquint and Lucent Technologies. Due to his contributions, InP-based APDs transitioned from R&D lab into mass production, and are now widely deployed around world in fiber-to-the-home (FTTx) applications. Nie received a B.S. degree in Physics from University of Sciences and Technology in China in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He is a senior member of IEEE for his contributions toward telecommunication APDs, receivers and transceivers. | | Articles written by Hui Nie in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Vertical Devices In Bulk GaN Drive Diode Performance To Near - Theoretical L imits |
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| Kim Nielson
 | Kim Nielson is a Sr. Engineering Technician for National Semiconductor's Design Center (Phoenix), where he has worked for five years. The center's products include next-generation PWM power controllers, gate drivers, and hot-swap and load-share controllers. Before joining National Semiconductor, Nielson spent 15 years as a power supply proto-type development specialist for commercial, military, and space applications. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, music, and travel. | | Articles written by Kim Nielson in How2Power Today: |
| 01/26/10 | Increase Boost Regulator Efficiency With Synchronous Rectification |
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| Rich Nowakowski
 | Rich Nowakowski is a product marketing manager for dc-dc converters within TI's Power Management group. Rich received his BSEE and MBA from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. | | Articles written by Rich Nowakowski in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/16 | Conventional Buck Vs. High-Frequency Series-Capacitor Buck: Who Wins? |
| 10/25/12 | Techniques For Implementing A Positive And Negative Output Voltage For Industrial And Medical Equipment |
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| Michael O'Loughlin
 | Michael O'Loughlin is an applications engineer with the Power Supply Control Products group at Texas Instruments. He specializes in offline and isolated power supply design and has authored numerous articles on power factor correction and power supply design related topics. Michael received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts. | | Articles written by Michael O''Loughlin in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/10 | Why Struggle with Loop Compensation? |
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| Dara O'Sullivan
 | Dara O'Sullivan is a system applications engineer for the Motor and Power Control group at Analog Devices (ADI). His area of expertise is power conversion and control in ac motor control applications. O'Sullivan received his B.E, M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. from University College Cork, Ireland. | | Articles written by Dara O''Sullivan in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/15 | Model-Based Design Streamlines Embedded Motor Control System Development |
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| Prasanna Obala Bhuvanesh
 | Prasanna Obala Bhuvanesh is a strategic marketing manager for nanopower power management products at Dialog Semiconductor. Prasanna joined Dialog in 2016 and has more than 14 years of semiconductor industry experience covering design, definition and marketing roles. Prasanna holds a master’s degree from University of Southern California and Bachelor’s degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India. | |
| Nicholas Oborny
 | Nicholas Oborny is a systems engineer with the Analog Motor Drivers group at Texas Instruments. Nick supports next-generation motor driver development for three-phase brushless, stepper and brushed dc motor systems, as well as motor system design support and application debugging. Nick graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering, College Station, Texas. When not working with motors, Nick enjoys playing competitive indoor volleyball, hiking, camping, and reading science fiction novels. If you have questions about this article or motor drivers in general, you can post them to the TI E2E Community Motor Drivers forum | | Articles written by Nicholas Oborny in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/17 | Optimize Power MOSFET Performance In Motor Drive Designs |
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| Harrison Overturf
 | Harrison Overturf is an applications engineer for Texas Instruments’ Wide-VIN Buck Switching Regulator’s product line. He focuses on low power dc-dc buck converters and holds a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. | | Articles written by Harrison Overturf in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/23 | Addressing Design Challenges In 48-V MHEVs: Buck Converter Choices Can Help |
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| Slavomir Pala
 | Slavomir Pala has worked at AVX in various technical positions for the past 20 years. Currently, Slavo works as a technical marketing manager in AVX’s tantalum division. In this role, he provides a bridge between production R&D and the customers’ latest capacitor needs, which requires detailed interaction with customers across all market segments. Prior to AVX, Slavo spent two years at SONY TV as a production engineer. He graduated from the military aviation university in Kosice, Solvakia with a specialization in airborne radio and airborne radar equipment. | | Articles written by Slavomir Pala in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/22 | High-Temperature Capacitors Push Performance To 200°C And Beyond |
| 08/15/21 | Space-Grade Tantalum Polymer Caps Deliver Lower ESR And Better Current Handling For Bulk Capacitor Applications |
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| Parthiv Pandya
 | Parthiv Pandya is responsible for industrial IoT and industrial automation applications and systems product marketing at onsemi. He has over 15 years of experience in semiconductor industry working as an application engineer for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet PHY and switch hardware development. His background also includes programming microcontrollers-based TCP/IP and Bluetooth software stacks. Parthiv has a masters in electrical engineering and an MBA from Arizona State University. | | Articles written by Parthiv Pandya in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
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| Salvo Pappalardo
 | Salvo Pappalardo is currently the technical office manager for the Space & High Rel Product Line within STMicroelectroncs’ GPA & RF division. He first joined this division in 2013 as the Radhard Design Manager, and in the years Salvo held this role he lead the development of several rad-hard products, some of them co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). Previously, he served as the coordinator of Analog Group activities, where he was responsible for the Analog Design Team for the Display Division and then for the Photovoltaic business unit, contributing to the development of products by these two groups. Prior to that, Salvo worked for many years as an analog designer at ST, developing MOSFET driver ICs, switched mode power supply and power management ICs for industrial, mobile phone and battery charger applications. He joined ST in 1995, shortly after graduating in electronic engineering. Salvo holds several patents on analog and smart power ICs in the U.S., and he is also author and co-author of papers on ASICs and general purpose ICs. | | Articles written by Salvo Pappalardo in How2Power Today: |
| 12/13/19 | Integrated Current Limiter Eases Power Protection In High-Voltage Space Applications |
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| Min-Young Park
 | Min-Young Park is an application engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he is an expert in power electronics. Park joined Fairchild in 2011, and is currently focused on induction heating applications in consumer power systems. He received his master's degree in power electronics from Kyungpook National University in 2011. | | Articles written by Min-Young Park in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/13 | IGBT With Intrinsic Body Diode Improves Performance Of Single-Ended-Resonant Inverters In Induction Heating Applications |
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| Raymond Park
 | Raymond Park, product definer at Maxim Integrated, has built his career with LG and National Semiconductor in mobile applications. He holds a BSEE from Kyunghee University, South Korea. | | Articles written by Raymond Park in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/17 | Receiver Chip Implements Efficient, Flexible Wireless Charging For Wearables |
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| Kevin Parmenter
 | Kevin Parmenter has over 20 years of experience in the electronics and semiconductor industry. Presently the director of Advanced Technical Marketing for Digital Power Products at Exar, Kevin previously led global product applications engineering and new product definition for Freescale Semiconductors AMPD - Analog, Mixed Signal and Power Division based in Tempe, AZ. Prior to this, he worked for Fairchild Semiconductor in the Americas as senior director of field applications engineering. In this role, Kevin led the FAE team in the Americas region plus three regional design centers.
Previously Kevin held various technical and management positions with increasing responsibility at ON Semiconductor and in the Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector. Kevin also led an applications engineering team for the start-up Primarion where he worked on high-speed electro-optical communications and digital power supply semiconductors.
Kevin is president and serves on the board of directors of the PSMA (Power Sources Manufacturers Association) and was the general chair of APEC 2009 (the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference.) Kevin has also had design engineering experience in the medical electronics and military electronics fields. He holds a BSEE and BS in Business Administration, is a member of the IEEE, and holds an Amateur Extra class FCC license (call sign KG5Q) as well as an FCC Commercial Radiotelephone License. | | Articles written by Kevin Parmenter in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/22 | Good Planning Made ECCE 2022 Productive For Attendees And Exhibitors |
| 10/15/20 | Avoiding Thermal Runaway In Schottkys Is Key To More Reliable And Efficient Designs |
| 07/15/20 | Mounting Bridge Rectifiers: Compliance Needs Make It Complicated |
| 03/13/20 | PFC (Part 2): How Current Harmonics Cause Distortion And The Role of the Delta-Wye Transformer |
| 02/14/20 | Power Factor Correction (Part 1): Why We Need It And How It Evolved |
| 01/17/20 | A Guide To Second Sourcing Rectifiers |
| 12/13/19 | X-Capacitor Discharge Must Satisfy Both Safety And Energy Efficiency Rules |
| 11/15/19 | Maintaining Battery Safety And Life Of Battery Are Top Priorities In Battery Charger Design |
| 10/17/19 | Selecting An AC Line Filter For Switching Power Supply Applications |
| 10/15/19 | How To Select Bridge Rectifiers |
| 09/16/19 | Secrets Of The Datasheet: What Rectifier Specs Really Mean |
| 06/17/19 | New Packages Offer Smaller Size, Greater Reliability For Rectifiers—With Some Tradeoffs |
| 06/17/19 | Measuring Common-Mode And Differential-Mode EMI Currents |
| 12/18/18 | Proper Design Of The Power Supply’s Input EMI Filter Protects Against Power Line Transients |
| 05/16/18 | Beware The Pitfalls Of Power Suppy Hipot Testing |
| 02/16/18 | PCB Board Layout Is Critical When The Power Supply And MCU Live On The Same Board |
| 10/16/17 | Understanding LISNs Is Essential To EMI Pre-Compliance Testing |
| 09/15/17 | Power Supply Standards: Which Ones Apply In Your Application? |
| 11/15/16 | Surges and Transients Can't Read Specifications! How to Protect Power Supplies Against Real-World Threats |
| 10/15/16 | Meeting High Altitude Requirements For Power Supplies: A Guide For Designers And Specifiers |
| 08/15/16 | Wide Voltage Trim Power Supplies: The Benefits Of Linear Supplies Without The Drawbacks |
| 04/16/15 | APEC (2015) Rap Session Ponders Progress, Prospects And Pitfalls For GaN Devices |
| 09/16/13 | In Pursuit of Energy Efficiency, Better Physics Can Trump Better Electronics |
| 04/01/11 | Rap Session Wrap Up: APEC Panelists Explore Social Media As Cure For Corporate Hiring Woes |
| 12/01/10 | Working With Recruiters: What Engineers and Employers Need to Know |
| 10/01/10 | Bad HR Processes Stymie Efforts To Hire Talented Engineers |
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| Parviz Parto
 | Parviz Parto is director of Systems Applications Engineering at International Rectifier where he is responsible for defining and developing power management products for point-of-load (POL) applications. Parviz has more than 15 years of design experience in power electronics. He received his M.S. from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in electrical engineering. Parviz is author or coauthor of many technical papers and holds U.S patents in the area of power management. His interests include high-frequency switched-mode power supplies and ICs for power management applications. | | Articles written by Parviz Parto in How2Power Today: |
| 01/27/12 | Voltage-Mode Control Scheme Improves Buck Converter Performance At High Frequencies |
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| Rushi Patel
 | Rushi Patel is an applications engineer for IR HiRel and part of the technical marketing team. | | Articles written by Rushi Patel in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/23 | Rad-Hard P-Channel FETs: A Simpler And More-Reliable Solution For Power Distribution In Space |
| 11/15/21 | MOSFET Packaging Innovations For SWaP-Optimized Space Power Systems |
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| Jeff Perry
 | Jeff Perry is the senior development manager for National Semiconductor's WEBENCH online design environment. He spent the first part of his career in semiconductor process engineering and the latter portion in power supply applications and development. He has been involved with the WEBENCH tool since it's inception in 1999. Jeff graduated from UCLA with a BS in physics and received an MBA from San Jose State University. He holds 10 patents. | | Articles written by Jeff Perry in How2Power Today: |
| 04/30/10 | Scoping Out the Best DC-DC Converter Design |
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| Sándor Petényi
 | Sándor Petényi works as an analog IC design engineer at STMicroelectronics, Prague in the Czech Republic where he develops voltage regulators and power management products. Prior to joining STMicroelectronics in 2004, Sándor served as a device engineer for two years at ON Semiconductor,Pöstyén, Slovakia. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics from Slovak University of Technology in Pozsony. | | Articles written by Sándor Petényi in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/14 | Bandgap Voltage Reference Achieves High Performance At Low Supply Voltages |
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| Alessandro Pevere
 | Alessandro Pevere is a system application engineer in the high voltage demo board team at Infineon Technologies Austria. Previously, he served as head of System Eng. at Meta System in Italy, following almost two years as a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven/Energyille in Belgium. Alessandro Pevere received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Udine, Italy and a Ph.D. in power electronics from the same university. During his Ph.D. studies he also served as a research assistant at the University of Michigan working on wireless power transfer. | |
| Hoang Phuc (Peter) Pham
 | Hoang Phuc (Peter) Pham currently is a masters candidate in electrical engineering with a specialty in power electronics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His main areas of research interest are wireless power transfer, high-frequency power converters and converter control. Pham received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2018. He received the top graduate award in the same year. | |
| Bich Pham
| Bich Pham joined Maxim Integrated as a customer applications engineer in 2000 and is now a senior member of Technical Staff where he remains focused on helping customers solve real-world design challenges. Bich has a BSEE from San Jose State University in California. | | Articles written by Bich Pham in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/21 | A Four-Decade, Integrated Current-Sensing Solution With Extended Supply Range |
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| Todd Phillips
 | Todd Phillips is a strategic marketing manager for the electronics business unit; focusing on the LED, Datacenter and Mobile markets. He joined Littelfuse as a sales engineer in 2006 for the industrial POWR-GARD business unit. Then, Todd joined the electronics business unit in 2011 as a regional sales manager. Todd's current responsibilities include development of marketing collateral material, management of marketing activities for new product launches and performing market studies and feasibility analyses for new product ideas. He received his BSEE from Milwaukee School of Engineering. Todd can be reached at tphillips@littelfuse.com | |
| Lukas Pichler
 | Lukas Pichler received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering at the Graz University of Technology in 2017 and is continuing his studies there for a master's degree in electrical engineering. He is currently a member of the EMC project team at the IFE. | | Articles written by Lukas Pichler in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/19 | Advanced Scopes And Probes Help Optimize SMPS Gate Drives For EMC |
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| Enrico Poli
 | Enrico Poli is a senior application engineer for STMicroelectronics in Agrate Brianza, Italy. Since 2006 he has worked in the Industrial Business Unit, Motor Control Team, with a focus on monolithic solutions. | | Articles written by Enrico Poli in How2Power Today: |
| 08/30/12 | Non-Dissipative Control Saves Power And Cost In Stepper Motor Applications |
| 01/27/12 | System-On-Chip Architecture Raises Performance Of Microstepping Motor Driver Designs |
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| Franki Poon
 | N. K. Poon is the co-founder of PowerELab Ltd., a spin-off company from the University of Hong Kong, and the creator of the Web-based software PowerEsim. Poon received the B.Eng. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. After graduation, he worked at Artesyn Technologies (Asia Pacific) for three and a half years before joining the Power Electronics Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong. His current interests include soft-switching techniques, EMI modeling, PFC topologies, synchronous rectification, converter modeling, PWM inverters, simulation techniques, and fast transient regulators. Poon is also the key inventor of more than 20 patents, and has published more than 50 journal and conference papers. | | Articles written by Franki Poon in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/15 | Free Tool Takes The Drudgery Out Of Designing EMI Filters |
| 09/15/14 | The Most Important Concept In EMI Diagnosis |
| 08/15/13 | Web-Based Toolset Accelerates Power Supply Design For Both Power Electronics Experts And Non-Experts |
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| Andrew Popp
 | Andrew Popp is director of Discrete Space Power Products for IR HiRel, where he leads development of new silicon and GaN-based FET solutions for the space industry. | | Articles written by Andrew Popp in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/21 | Rad Hard MOSFETs Enable Easy Upgrade Of Flight-Proven DC-DC Converter |
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| Vlado Porobic
 | Vlado B. Porobic received the Dipl.-Ing., M.S and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2000, 2005, and 2011, respectively. Since 2000 Vlado has been employed on the Faculty of Technical Sciences in the Department of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines, first as a teaching and research assistant and then from 2011 as an assistant professor. In 2014 Vlado co-founded PERUN Technologies. His expertise includes power electronics drives, digital signal processing, industrial communication and protocols, while his main activities are focused on firmware development. | | Articles written by Vlado Porobic in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/16 | Open HW/SW Platform Accelerates Development Of Control Solutions For Power Electronics |
| 01/18/13 | Hardware-In-The-Loop System Eases Development And Testing Of Grid-Connected Power Electronics Applications |
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| Roberto Prieto
 | Roberto Prieto was born in Madrid, Spain. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Since 1994, he has been an assistant professor at the Technical University of Madrid, where he is currently associate professor and deputy vice-president for research. He has published more than 100 papers in International conferences and journals, most of them from the IEEE. His research interests include high-frequency magnetic components, modeling of power electronics systems and development of CAD tools for power electronics applications. | | Articles written by Roberto Prieto in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/10 | Modeling of Integrated Magnetics Components |
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| Daniel Pruna
 | Daniel Pruna is an applications section manager at the EMEA Systems Engineering Center at ON Semiconductor. Before joining On Semiconductor in 2019, he worked for nine years as development engineer and later as head of engineering for an OEM company in Germany. His work was mainly focused on battery chargers, switch-mode power supplies and motor controllers. Daniel holds an M.Sc. degree in Embedded Systems from Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) and a B.Eng. from Lower Danube University of Galati (Romania). | | Articles written by Daniel Pruna in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Serhiy Prykhodko
 | Serhiy Prykhodko is a team lead for Product Development Engineering at Dialog Semiconductor. Serhiy joined Dialog Semiconductor (Silego Technology before the acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor) in December, 2013. Prior to Dialog, he worked on Smart Home projects. Serhiy received a master's degree of Applied Physics and Electronics from Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine. | | Articles written by Serhiy Prykhodko in How2Power Today: |
| 11/16/20 | Configurable IC Enables Flexible And Efficient LED Lamp Driver |
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| Paul Pu
 | Paul Pu joined Integrated Device Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in 2009 and serves as a marketing director at present. Paul brings almost ten years experience in the power and energy industry and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University. | | Articles written by Paul Pu in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/11 | Energy Meter Design Operates Accurately Over Wide Current Range |
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| Jifeng Qin
 | Jifeng Qin is a product manager in the Automotive Products Business Unit at International Rectifier. He holds a BSEE degree from Zhejiang University, China and an MSEE degree from North Carolina State University, U.S.A. He has more than six years' experience in circuit design, applications and marketing in the semiconductor industry. He currently holds nine U.S. patents. | | Articles written by Jifeng Qin in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/14 | PQFN With Ribbon Bond Boosts Power MOSFET Performance While Reducing System Cost For Automotive Applications |
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| Shishir Rai
 | Shishir Rai received his B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 2002 and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana in 2005 with a focus on the design of high speed III-V devices. He has been with International Rectifier since 2005 where he has worked in the areas of power device design, high-voltage IC design, applications engineering and technical marketing. | | Articles written by Shishir Rai in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/11 | MOSFET Package Technology Enhances Performance Of Motor Drives |
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| Matt Reeves
 | Matt Reeves is a principal engineer & business development lead at Wieland Microcool with 20 years’ experience in the design of cooling solutions, specializing in heat transfer and liquid coldplate design for power electronics. | | Articles written by Matt Reeves in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Increasing Power Density In Three-Phase Inverters With Direct-Cooled SiC Power Modules |
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| Klaus Reichert
 | Klaus Reichert has more than 30 years of experience in electronic circuit design and the application of magnetic and electronic components. Since 1990 he has been working for VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co KG, where he is currently senior manager for Industrial Applications. Reichert received his diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt, Germany. | | Articles written by Klaus Reichert in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/13 | Closed-Loop Sensors With Magnetic Probe Extend High-Precision Current Measurement To Higher Current Levels |
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| Benoît Renard
 | Benoît Renard obtained his degree in Analog Electronics and Microelectronics in 2009 from the Institute of Technology of the University of Tours, France. He has worked for seven years in STMicroelectronics in the Application & System Engineering department for SCR and Triac semiconductors– in the ASD & IPAD division of Tours for the Automotive and Discrete Group –as application engineer, specializing in ac line applications (appliances, industrial and lighting). He has forged broad experiences with many published articles, conference papers and presentations, and patents to his credit. | | Articles written by Benoît Renard in How2Power Today: |
| 05/16/16 | Smart Inrush Current Limiter Enables Higher Efficiency In AC-DC Converters |
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| Karol Rendek
 | Karol Rendek is an applications manager at the Systems Engineering Center at ON Semiconductor. Karol joined ON Semiconductor in 2020. Previously, he spent nine years working as hardware engineer, system engineer and project manager in development of embedded systems, Class D amplifiers, rolling stock control and safety systems and industrial electric vehicle chargers. Karol has Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Microelectronics from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He spent three years during his Ph.D. study focusing on low frequency noise analysis of GaN HEMT transistors. | | Articles written by Karol Rendek in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 8): Thermal Management |
| 01/14/22 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 7): Auxiliary Power Supply Units For 800-V EV Chargers |
| 10/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 6): Gate Drive System For Power Modules |
| 08/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 5): Control Algorithms, Modulation Schemes And Feedback |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Chris Reynolds
 | Chris Reynolds is a technical manager at AVX, based in Fountain Inn, SC, with over 30 years’ experience across many passive component technologies in both R & D and applications. Recently, he has been involved in automotive designs from ECU to interior that employ the latest SMD, through-Hole and bolt-in capacitor technologies. Chris holds a BSc in physics from Birmingham University, UK. | | Articles written by Chris Reynolds in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/19 | Evaluating Interchangeability Of MLCCs And Tantalum Electrolytics In High-Capacitance Applications |
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| Tom Ribarich
 | Since joining International Rectifier (IR) in 1996, Tom Ribarich has been the director of IR's Lighting IC Design Center where he is responsible for developing control ICs for the global lighting market, including fluorescent, halogen, HID, LED and LCD backlighting applications. Prior to that, Tom was employed by Knobel Lighting Components in Switzerland where he designed dimmable electronic ballast systems for a variety of applications. Tom holds a BSEE degree from California State University, Northridge and a Master's degree in ASIC design from University of Rapperswil, Switzerland. | | Articles written by Tom Ribarich in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/14 | Sense Power Switch Current Without Increasing Losses Or Parasitics |
| 02/15/14 | Control Circuit Simplifies PFC Boost Converter Design |
| 09/27/11 | Circuit Implements Low-Cost Ballast Control With High Power Factor |
| 06/29/10 | How To Design a 250-W HID Electronic Ballast |
| 09/17/09 | A Simpler Way to Dim Fluorescent Lamps |
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| Calogero Ribellino
 | Calogero Ribellino has been with STMicroelectronics in Catania, Italy since 2005 during which time he has been in charge, as design manager, of a multisite team working on low dropout regulators, voltage references, medium power dc-dc converters, drivers for back lights, and linear and switching battery chargers. In 2011 his responsibilities expanded to include the rad hard products design team. Ribellino also worked at the company, previously, when it was known as SGS-Thomson. When he joined the company in 1995 he started work as an analog designer at the company's facility in Cornaredo, Milano, and then transferred in 1997 to its Catania site where he worked on analog design as a team leader focusing on portable equipment design. In addition, from 2003 to 2005 he worked at Maxim Integrated Products as a dc-dc converter designer. Ribellino graduated in electronics from Palermo University. | | Articles written by Calogero Ribellino in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/14 | Bandgap Voltage Reference Achieves High Performance At Low Supply Voltages |
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| David Riedell
 | David Riedell is currently working with configurable mixed-signal ICs (CMICs) as an applications engineer at Dialog Semiconductor. David received a BS in computer engineering from North Carolina State University. | | Articles written by David Riedell in How2Power Today: |
| 11/16/17 | Configurable IC Implements Low-Cost Class D Audio Amplifier For IoT Devices |
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| John Roberts
 | John Roberts is one of the co-founders of GaN Systems. He has been involved as a founder or co-founder of several semiconductor companies including SiGe Semiconductor and Tundra. Prior to these entrepreneurial activities he held positions at MOSAID, Control Data, Microsystems International, Siliconix, and GE Semiconductor. John holds an M.Sc. degree obtained from Swansea University. | | Articles written by John Roberts in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/14 | On-Chip Drivers Enable High-Current, Normally Off GaN Transistors (Part 1) |
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| Trey Roessig
 | Trey Roessig brings over 20 years of experience and 25 U.S. patents in power and mixed-signal design to the Empower Semiconductor engineering team. In his role as CTO & SVP engineering, Trey manages a team of analog, digital, power, and system architects. Previously, he has served in both technology and business roles in companies of various sizes, from co-founder of Integrated Micro Instruments (acquired by Analog Devices) to director of engineering at Volterra Semiconductor to general manager of ADI’s Power Management business unit. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering/Controls & Dynamic Systems. | | Articles written by Trey Roessig in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/22 | Advanced PMICs Can Flatten The Processor Power Curve For Data Centers |
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| Brian Rosario
| Brian Rosario joined Maxim Integrated as an applications engineer in 2013. He has a BSEE from Santa Clara University in California. | | Articles written by Brian Rosario in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/15 | Two PSE Controllers Deliver 80 W For Class 5 PoE Power Injector |
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| Nazzareno (Reno) Rossetti
 | Nazzareno (Reno) Rossetti is a seasoned analog and power management professional, a published author and holds several patents in this field. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. | | Articles written by Nazzareno (Reno) Rossetti in How2Power Today: |
| 01/14/22 | Ruggedizing Buck Converters For Space And Other High Radiation Environments |
| 09/15/20 | A Flexible Design For Fast Charging Supercapacitors In Industrial Applications |
| 02/14/20 | More-Efficient Boost Converter Extends Battery Life For Wearable Medical Patches |
| 01/15/18 | Online Simulation Validates Output Error Budget Analysis For Buck Converter |
| 09/15/17 | Cut Your Losses–With an Active Diode |
| 08/15/17 | Receiver Chip Implements Efficient, Flexible Wireless Charging For Wearables |
| 12/15/16 | Correct Snubber Power Loss Estimate Saves the Day |
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| Jiri Ryba
 | Since 2003, Jiri Ryba, Ph.D, has been an application engineer at STMicroelectronics. His focus is currently on 32-bit PPC-based microcontrollers. Before he joined STMicroelectronics, he worked for Motorola focusing on Motor Control applications. He produced several technical papers and participated in two patents. In 1999, he attained his Honors Degree at Electrical faculty C.T.U Prague, Czech Republic, and did his post graduate work in electrical machinery, apparatus and drives, concluding with a Ph.D. Thesis titled "AC/DC Converter with Sine Wave Input Current." | | Articles written by Jiri Ryba in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/14 | Inductance-Measuring Algorithms Speed Start Up Of Sensorless BLDC Motors |
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| Steve Sandler
 | Steve Sandler has over 30 years of experience in engineering. He is the founder and CTO of AEi Systems, LLC and is responsible for worst-case circuit analysis of power, RF, and linear systems as well as the design of AEi Systems' line of rad-hard dc-dc converters. Mr. Sandler is president of SM Sandler Holdings, LLC and is a recognized author, educator and entrepreneur in the areas of power, RF and instrumentation | | Articles written by Steve Sandler in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/24 | Dynamic Load Stepping: A New Paradigm For Determining GPU/ASIC Power Rail Stability And Impedance |
| 11/15/21 | Why EM Is Replacing SPICE For Simulation Of Board-Level Power Delivery |
| 12/15/14 | Voltage References Behaving Badly: Output Caps Are Key Source Of Poor Stability |
| 09/15/14 | Video: PDN Basics For Power Designers (Part 1): What’s A PDN? |
| 09/15/14 | Video: PDN Basics For Power Designers (Part 2): Keep Impedance Flat |
| 09/15/14 | Video: PDN Basics For Power Designers (Part 3): Impedance Matching Is Critical |
| 02/15/14 | Inside the 21st Century Power Test Lab |
| 01/16/14 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 8): Making Time Domain Measurements |
| 12/16/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 7): Measuring Ripple |
| 11/15/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 6): The Switch Node |
| 10/15/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 5): Using Current Injectors |
| 09/16/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 4): Measuring Impedance Using Vector Network Analyzers (Two-Port Tests) |
| 08/15/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 3): Measuring Impedance Using Vector Network Analyzers (One-Port Tests) |
| 06/14/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 2): Impedance Is The Critical Measurement |
| 05/15/13 | Troubleshooting Distributed Power Systems (Part 1): Why Stability Matters |
| 05/24/12 | Troubleshooting EMI: Use Versatile Instrument And Preamp To Search For Embedded Noise |
| 08/31/11 | Component Aging Is Primary Hurdle In Design Of High-Temperature Power Converters |
| 04/29/11 | An Accurate Method For Measuring Capacitor ESL |
| 09/24/10 | Powering RF Systems: Why So Many Power Supply Designs Have Problems and What IC Suppliers Should Do About It |
| 05/27/10 | Lost in Space: Unpredictable Aging Can Send Resistor Accuracy Way Off Course |
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| Paolo Sandri
 | Paolo Sandri is responsible for specialized Power Management Products at STMicroelectronics. Paolo joined ST as an analog IC design engineer, where he developed several power conversion ICs. He took on market development responsibility for power ICs and is focused on power management for data centers, where he contributes to improving data center efficiency and power delivery through innovative solutions. Paolo holds a BSEE and MSEE from University of Padua (Italy) with specialization in power conversion. | | Articles written by Paolo Sandri in How2Power Today: |
| 02/15/23 | Enhanced Switched Tank Converter Offers Flexible Fixed-Ratio Power Conversion For Data Centers |
| 05/15/20 | Novel 54-V to 12-V Buck Topology Eases Efficient Power Delivery In Data Centers |
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| Muhammad Saqib
 | Muhammad Saqib’s work focuses on power electronics, embedded systems and instrumentation. He also works on CMICs and develops app notes for Dialog Semiconductor. Muhammad received the B.S and M.S degrees in electrical engineering from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Lahore. | | Articles written by Muhammad Saqib in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/19 | Configurable IC Simplifies Control Of Animated LED Turn Signals |
| 10/15/18 | Random PWM Quiets Noise And Reduces Emissions In Three-Phase Inverter Applications |
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| Farhana Sarder
| Farhana Sarder is an applications engineer at ON Semiconductor. With a background in analog circuit design, she specializes in amplifier products including precision op amps, current-sense amplifiers, and comparators. She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Farhana Sarder in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/19 | Zero-Drift Precision Op Amps: Measuring And Eliminating Aliasing For More Accurate Current Sensing |
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| Benjamin Sarpong
 | Benjamin Kwame Sarpong is a systems and applications engineer for TI's Battery Management Group. He received his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Virginia. He also holds an MBA Degree from the McCombs School Of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Ben has been at TI for 13 years and served in several roles during this time. He is a senior member of the TI Technical Staff. He previously held the position of engineering operations manager in the TI Storage Products Group. Ben is also a co-sponsor of the Texas Instruments—Africa Analog University Relations Program, where he is working with universities in Ghana to develop the mixed-signal design talent and in collaboration with Cadence has setup a Cadence Design Lab at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. | | Articles written by Benjamin Sarpong in How2Power Today: |
| 02/29/12 | A Guide To Selecting Battery Management Controllers When Designing Li-Ion UPS Systems |
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| Donald Schelle
 | Donald Schelle is an analog field applications engineer for Texas Instruments and has more than a decade of engineering experience. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. | | Articles written by Donald Schelle in How2Power Today: |
| 08/16/18 | Boost Converter Optimizes Motor Performance In Battery-Powered Applications |
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| Paul L. Schimel
 | Paul Schimel spent his early years developing a wide ranging interest in all this electrical and mechanical, investigating and eventually repairing all types of equipment. He was working conventional machine tools and welding by 14. Through high school, he fixed most anything that was breakable including yard equipment, two-way radio gear, power tools, TVs, and stereos. He attended the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, specializing in power electronics where he earned a BSEE degree.
After this, he spent eight years in successful design engineering roles in consumer equipment including power supply design for projection and direct view televisions and telecommunications equipment including ring generators, battery rectifiers/eliminators, dc-dc converters, and UPSs—both switch-mode and ferroresonant. He then moved on to field applications engineering where he has spent the last six years on power management support and design work for Unitrode/TI, Fairchild and International Rectifier. He has assisted successful designs from mW to MVA and from prototype stages to finished end equipment. He moonlights in broadcasting, antique test equipment restoration, metal working, wood working, TIG welding, loudspeaker building, and amateur radio (K5NJP). He holds a commercial radio telephone license, a refrigeration license, and PE license. Mr Schimel holds several patents on magnetic structures for power electronics and novel circuitry. | | Articles written by Paul L. Schimel in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/23 | EV Traction Inverters And EMC: Keeping Car Radios Working |
| 08/13/21 | Find A Transformer’s Turns, Phasing And Coupling Factor With An RLC Bridge |
| 04/15/21 | Safety On The Bench: Hazards And Precautions In The Power Electronics Lab |
| 06/15/20 | The Power Supply Designer’s Guide To Radiation Effects in Power Semiconductors |
| 10/15/19 | Field Solvers: A Different Perspective On EMI In Power Electronics |
| 04/15/15 | Don't Throw That Switch Yet! First Steps In A Large Inverter Design |
| 12/15/14 | Mission IGBT: Understanding And Specifying IGBT Modules |
| 07/15/13 | Steering Through The Confusion: A Guide To IGBT Technologies, Terminology, and Operation |
| 02/29/12 | Livin’ On The Edge: Switching Converter Slew Rate Is Key To Mitigating EMI In Automotive Environments |
| 04/29/11 | The Magic Carpet Ride: Class D Audio Circuit Design And Some Live Testing Results |
| 09/24/10 | Debunking An Old Myth: Those New Devices Will Fall Off The Board |
| 08/19/10 | How To Submit A Device For Failure Analysis |
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| Jeff Schnabel
 | Jeff Schnabel joined CUI in 2001 as a market research analyst, later transitioning into a product manager role and then a division manager role for CUI's V-Infinity Power Group. During his time managing V-Infinity, Jeff quickly expanded the product portfolio and customer base. Since 2009, Jeff has served as vice president of marketing. In that time, Jeff successfully established a centralized product marketing department within the company. Jeff holds a bachelors of science degree in business administration with a focus in marketing from the University of Oregon and an MBA from Portland State University. | | Articles written by Jeff Schnabel in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/15 | External Power Supplies And The New Level VI Specifications: Evolution Or A Different Species? |
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| Mike Schnecker
 | Mike Schnecker has a BS from Lehigh University and an MS from Georgia Tech, both in electrical engineering. He has 22 years of experience in the test and measurement industry in applications, sales and product development roles, and has specialized in signal-integrity applications including jitter using oscilloscopes and other instruments. Prior to joining Rohde & Schwarz, Schnecker held positions at LeCroy and Tektronix. While at LeCroy, he was responsible for the deployment of the SDA series of serial data analyzers. Schnecker currently serves as business development manager at Rohde & Schwarz. | |
| Kory Schroeder
 | Kory Schroeder currently serves as the director of Marketing and Engineering at Stackpole Electronics. His experience includes applications engineering for film capacitors with American Shizuki, product management, applications engineering, and field applications engineering with Vishay Intertechnology in their resistor division. Kory graduated from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. | | Articles written by Kory Schroeder in How2Power Today: |
| 05/14/21 | Military- Vs. Commercial-Grade Resistors: Reliability, Performance And Cost Tradeoffs |
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| Iain Scott
 | Iain Scott joined GaN Systems in 2012 with over 30 years of analog semiconductor design experience from National Semiconductor, Linear Technology and Mosaid. He received the CATA Alliance Innovation & Leadership Award in 1999 and his B.Sc. (Honours) in Electronic Engineering in 1977 from the University of Glasgow. | | Articles written by Iain Scott in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/14 | On-Chip Drivers Enable High-Current, Normally Off GaN Transistors (Part 1) |
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| Filippo Scrimizzi
 | Filippo Scrimizzi works in the Low Voltage Solutions division in STMicroelectronics in Catania, Italy where he develops SiP and smart GaN solutions as a senior application manager and strategic new application scout. Prior to this, he served as an application manager for LV MOSFETs and as automotive application manager for all power transistors in ST, both high-voltage and low-voltage power switches. This followed Filippo‘s time as an application and marketing engineer in ST’s European Automotive Business Unit and his initial work with ST as a product engineer for low-voltage MOSFETs. He holds a master’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Messina. | | Articles written by Filippo Scrimizzi in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/22 | Automotive MOSFETs Enhance Performance Of Power Distribution Systems |
| 04/15/22 | Wide-SOA Trench MOSFET Enables Rugged Linear-Mode Operation |
| 06/15/21 | Advanced MOSFETs Improve Power Conversion In 48-V Mild Hybrid Systems |
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| Kevin Seaton
 | Kevin Seaton is currently the manager of Standard & Custom Product Engineering at VPT in Blacksburg, Virginia. Kevin received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2000. | | Articles written by Kevin Seaton in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/14 | Using Ruggedized EMI Filters To Pass The CS101 Requirement Of MIL-STD-461D-F |
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| Hiroo Sekiya
 | Hiroo Sekiya was born in Tokyo, Japan, on July 5, 1973. He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1996, 1998, and 2001 respectively. Since April 2001, he has been with Chiba University and now he is an assistant professor at Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan. Since Feb. 2008 to Feb. 2010, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, Ohio, USA, as a visiting scholar. His research interests include high-frequency high-efficiency tuned power amplifiers, resonant dc-dc power converters, dc-ac inverters, and digital signal processing for wireless communication. | | Articles written by Hiroo Sekiya in How2Power Today: |
| 11/30/11 | Core Geometry Coefficient For Resonant Inductors |
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| Kalyan K. Sen
 | Kalyan Sen, a Fulbright Scholar, is the chief technology officer of Sen Engineering Solutions, which specializes in developing SMART power flow controllers—a functional requirements-based and cost-effective solution. He spent more than 30 years in academia and industry and became a Westinghouse Fellow Engineer. Sen was also a key member of the Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) development team at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center in Pittsburgh where he contributed in all aspects (conception, simulation, design, and commissioning) of FACTS projects at Westinghouse and conceived some of the basic concepts in FACTS technology. He has authored or coauthored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, eight issued patents, a book and four book chapters in the areas of FACTS and power electronics. Sen is the coauthor of the book Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications and is the co-inventor of Sen Transformer. He received BEE, MSEE, and PhD degrees, all in electrical engineering, from Jadavpur University, India, Tuskegee University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, respectively. He also received an MBA from Robert Morris University, USA. Sen is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | | Articles written by Kalyan K. Sen in How2Power Today: |
| 03/21/18 | Modeling Of The Sen Transformer Using An Electromagnetic Transients Program |
| 02/15/17 | Phase Angle Regulation Versus Impedance Control: Which Offers Greater Control Of Power Flow On the Grid? |
| 09/15/15 | Overview Of Voltage Regulation Schemes For Utility And Industrial Applications |
| 03/13/15 | Practical Power Flow Controller Brings Benefits Of Power Electronics To The Grid |
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| Mey Ling Sen
 | Currently the President of Sen Engineering Solutions, Mey Ling Sen has spent over 15 years in industry. She worked as an Engineering Consultant at Westinghouse and ABB. She is the co-inventor of the Sen Transformer—a SMART Power Flow Controller that is based on functional requirements and the most cost-effective power flow control solution. She is the coauthor of the book titled, Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications, IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009, which is also published in Chinese.
Sen received BSEE and MEE degrees in electrical engineering, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Rice University, respectively. A member of IEEE, Sen has served the organization in many positions. Under her leadership, IEEE Pittsburgh Section PES and IAS Chapters received Best Chapter Awards. She also served as the Section Treasurer and Co-Chair of Women In Engineering affinity group and Vice Chair of Pittsburgh Power Electronics Chapter. She led her Club and Area to win the President's Distinguished Awards from Toastmasters International in 2006-8. | | Articles written by Mey Ling Sen in How2Power Today: |
| 03/21/18 | Modeling Of The Sen Transformer Using An Electromagnetic Transients Program |
| 02/15/17 | Phase Angle Regulation Versus Impedance Control: Which Offers Greater Control Of Power Flow On the Grid? |
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| Upal Sengupta
 | For the past year, Upal Sengupta has been Texas Instruments marketing manager for portable power. Prior to that, he worked as an applications and systems engineer in TI's battery management and power conversion business units. Before coming to TI, Upal was a power system design engineer for mobile phone and portable computer OEMs, and a customer for both TI and National Semiconductor components. Upal has a BSEE from the University of Illinois and MSEE from Michigan State University. | | Articles written by Upal Sengupta in How2Power Today: |
| 07/27/11 | How To Implement A 5-W Wireless Power System |
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| Hemal Shah
 | Hemal Shah is the head of systems products at Avogy where Avogy's bulk GaN products are leveraged to make state-of-the-art power electronics systems. Prior to Avogy, Shah was the director, strategic marketing and applications at International Rectifier where he was responsible for new technology platform development, product strategy and tactical business development for a $400M product line. Shah has authored many IEEE publications and power electronics and technical magazine articles. He has an MSEE from RPI, Troy, NY and an MBA from IE business school, Madrid. | | Articles written by Hemal Shah in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/13 | Vertical Devices In Bulk GaN Drive Diode Performance To Near - Theoretical L imits |
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| Fionn Sheerin
 | Fionn Sheerin currently serves as the senior product marketing engineer for the Analog and Interface Products Division at Microchip Technology. In this role he defines and promotes Microchip's digitally featured analog power controllers. Prior to this, he worked for ON Semiconductor as an applications engineer, developing discrete power devices for SMPS and induction heating circuits. Sheerin received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, with an emphasis in mixed-signal electronics, as well as a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in finance. | | Articles written by Fionn Sheerin in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/16 | Tradeoffs In Digital, Analog, And Hybrid Power Supply Control |
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| Anastasios Simopolous
 | Anastasios Simopolous is the CEO and senior design engineer at Beta Dyne. Prior to launching this company, Simopolous cofounded Conversion Devices Inc. (CDI). He has 35 years of experience in analog circuit design and holds six patents on dc-dc converters. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering (EE) from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an M.S EE from Northeastern University. | | Articles written by Anastasios Simopolous in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/13 | A Guide To The Operation And Use Of Input EMI Filters For Switching Power Supplies |
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| Howard Sin
 | Howard Sin is principal engineer at Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions (PSCS), where he has worked since 2004 and is currently a principal engineer leading the WBG devices business development, technical marketing and application support in the U.S.A. In addition, Sin has over nine years of experience in SMPS technology designing ultra-low standby power supply solutions. He holds a master of science degree in Power Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. | | Articles written by Howard Sin in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/15 | Novel GIT Structure Solves Current Collapse In GaN Power HEMTs |
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| Ingo Skuras
 | Ingo Skuras is the product marketing manager iMOTION at Infineon Technologies. In this role he focuses on motor control solutions for home appliances and small industrial applications. Ingo has more than 20 years' experience in the electronics industry. Prior to joining Infineon, Ingo held various positions in engineering, project management and marketing in companies like Siemens, Tyco and Vincotech. Ingo holds an engineering degree from the Technical University of Dresden. | | Articles written by Ingo Skuras in How2Power Today: |
| 12/13/19 | Design Platform Combines Ready-To-Use Motor Control Algorithm With Application-Oriented Enhancements |
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| Grant Smith
 | Grant Smith is a systems engineer working in Texas Instruments' (TI) wide bandgap group since 2013. Previously, Grant was a strategic business development director in TI's worldwide strategic marketing organization, and before that, an analog field applications engineer. Grant's areas of specialization are RF, high-speed signal processing, instrumentation and microcontroller-based product design. He has published numerous papers for IEEE conferences and has six signal processing patents. Grant earned his BSEE and MSEE from the University of South Florida, Tampa. Grant can be reached at ti_grantsmith@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Grant Smith in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/16 | Tips And Tricks For High-Speed, High-Current Measurement |
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| Bjarne Soderberg
 | Bjarne Soderberg is senior director, Technical Marketing for IR HiRel, and is responsible for the PCB-based power supplies and space power modules product lines. | | Articles written by Bjarne Soderberg in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/21 | Rad Hard MOSFETs Enable Easy Upgrade Of Flight-Proven DC-DC Converter |
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| Jens Sorensen
 | Jens Sorensen is a system application engineer at Analog Devices where he works with motor control solutions for industrial applications. His main interest is control algorithms, power electronics and control processors. While currently focusing on industrial applications Sorensen developed motor control and power electronics for appliance and automotive applications earlier in his career. | | Articles written by Jens Sorensen in How2Power Today: |
| 01/15/15 | Model-Based Design Streamlines Embedded Motor Control System Development |
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| Jim Spangler
 | Jim Spangler is a Life Member of the IEEE with over 40 years of electronics design experience and is president of Spangler Prototype Inc. (SPI). His power electronics engineering consulting firm’s priority is helping companies to place products into production, assisting them to pass government regulations and agency standards such as UL, FCC, ANSI, IES, and the IEC. For many years, he worked as a field applications engineer for Motorola Semiconductor, On Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic, and Active Semiconductor. He published numerous application notes and conference papers at a variety of conferences and traveled internationally giving switch-mode power supply seminars. Jim has a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois University, and was a PhD candidate at Illinois Institute of Technology. Jim is a member of the IEEE: IAS, PELS, PES; the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) where he is co-chair of the Safety and Compliance Committee. | |
| Kevin Speer
 | Kevin Speer joined Littelfuse in January 2015 as the business development manager responsible for providing strategic direction for the growth of IGBT and wide-bandgap power semiconductor business at Littelfuse. In addition to promoting and developing multi-chip IGBT module technology, Kevin has been involved in SiC materials, devices, and applications research since 1999. He earned a BSEE from the University of Arkansas in 2004, an M. Eng. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 2007, and a PhD in electrical engineering from CWRU in 2011. | | Articles written by Kevin Speer in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/17 | Development Tools Aim to Overcome Designers’ Hesitation About SiC MOSFETs |
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| Nagarajan Sridhar
 | Nagarajan Sridhar is a marketing manager focusing on new product development and growth of the high-voltage gate-driver business at Texas Instruments. Sridhar was a founding member of TI's Solar Energy Lab and has written numerous articles and conference papers on renewable energy solutions. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, master's and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a master's degree in business administration from Indiana University Bloomington. Sridhar can be reached at ti_sridhar@list.ti.com. | | Articles written by Nagarajan Sridhar in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/16 | Gate Driver ICs Enable Higher Efficiency In Air-Conditioning Systems |
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| Cornel Stanescu
 | Cornel Stanescu graduated in 1984 with a Master's degree from the Faculty of Electronics of the Politehnica University of Bucharest. In 1998, Stanecu obtained his PhD in Microelectronics. Between 1984 and 1996 he was with ICCE (Development Center for Electronic Components) being involved in analog design, mainly in bipolar technology, developing voltage regulators, precision operational amplifiers and thermal sensors. From 1996 to 1998 he was with SEMICONIX Design, as technical manager for analog ICs. Since 1998, he has been working with the Romanian Catalyst group (now part of ON Semiconductor) as a design manager or technical lead for digital potentiometers, LDOs and thermal sensors, all in CMOS technology. Since 1984, Stanecu has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Electronics of "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, teaching, both in Romanian and English languages, Project and Seminary classes at Analog Integrated Circuits course. He is also the main author of five patents (one Romanian and four U.S.) and has more than 30 papers presented at the Romanian Annual Semiconductor Conference (CAS), many recognized with best-of-the-section awards. For the last 10 years, Stanecu has been a member of the Paper Review Board and chairman at the same conference. An IEEE member since 1994, he was also a reviewer for the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. | | Articles written by Cornel Stanescu in How2Power Today: |
| 05/24/12 | Internal LDO Circuit Offers External Control Of Current Limiting |
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| Jerry Steele
 | Jerry Steele has a long association with power management products from his early days at Burr-Brown, Apex Microtechnology, National Semiconductor, Maxim, and at Texas Instruments as a senior member of technical staff. His experience has covered a variety of products including precision analog and mixed-signal devices dedicated to temperature, current, and power measurement to system management and protection devices including devices such as eFuses and hot swap controllers. Jerry has authored a considerable number of analog and mixed-signal articles over the years, and co-authored five patents. | | Articles written by Jerry Steele in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/22 | Getting The Most From The Improved Howland Current Pump: Output Impedance |
| 01/14/22 | Improving Solar Inverter Reliability: Techniques For Protecting Output Power Switches |
| 06/15/21 | Techniques For Safely Paralleling MOSFETs In Linear Circuits |
| 01/15/21 | Don’t Let Current Sources And Grounds Derail Your Spice Simulations |
| 11/16/20 | Evaluating Fuses, Breakers, PTCs And Electronic Fuses For Automotive Applications |
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| Dylan Stinson
 | Dylan Stinson is a product manager for RF/microwave products at Tektronix where he works closely with customers and industry partners to define market requirements and deploy test and measurement solutions. Before joining Tektronix, he held engineering positions with Veris Industries and Georgia-Pacific. He holds a BSEE with a focus in high frequency systems from Oregon State University. | | Articles written by Dylan Stinson in How2Power Today: |
| 07/16/18 | Strategies For Pre-compliance EMI Testing Of Radiated Emissions |
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| Johan Strydom
 | Johan Strydom is currently the head of Applications Engineering at EPC Corporation. He received his Ph.D from the Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa in 2001. From 1999 to 2002 he was working as a GRA and post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Power Electronics (CPES), Virginia Tech. Prior to joining EPC, he held various application engineering positions at International Rectifier Corporation (IRF) and more recently at Linear Technology Corporation (LLTC), working on a wide range of consumer and industrial applications including motor drives, class-D audio, hybrid power modules and dc-dc converters for VRM and POL. | | Articles written by Johan Strydom in How2Power Today: |
| 09/27/11 | How2 Get From AC To Below 1 V With eGaN FETs |
| 11/23/10 | High Step-Down Ratio Buck Converters With eGaN Devices |
| 06/29/10 | How2 Get The Most Out Of GaN Power Transistors |
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| Bosheng Sun
 | Bosheng Sun is a systems and application engineer for the high-voltage controllers product line at Texas Instruments (TI). He has more than 15 years of experience in power electronics and the semiconductor industry. Bosheng earned a BSEE from Tsinghua University and an MSEE from Cleveland State University. He has written numerous articles and conference papers. Additionally, Bosheng holds four U.S. patents. | | Articles written by Bosheng Sun in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/19 | Using A Four-Switch Buck-Boost Bidirectional DC-DC Converter For Battery Backup Applications |
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| Jingjing Sun
 | Jingjing Sun is currently a PhD student in power electronics in CURENT, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Her research interests are applications of wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, high-efficiency power supply design and hardware-based emulation of data center power supply systems. Sun received the B.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2016, in electrical engineering, and the M.S. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2018. | | Articles written by Jingjing Sun in How2Power Today: |
| 02/14/20 | GaN-Based Wireless Power Enables Efficient, Seamless Multi-Device Charging |
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| Rehan Tahir
 | Rehan Tahir is a product line marketing manager for Multiphase Server Products at Infineon Technologies based out of the San Francisco Bay area. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry, including work as a power applications engineer and product manager at Lockheed Martin, as well as corporate business development and strategy at Synopsys and Applied Materials. Rehan received his BSEE from UC Davis, MSEE from Santa Clara University and MBA from UC Berkeley. When he isn’t contemplating the world of power electronics, he spends his time running after his daughter or training for a marathon. | | Articles written by Rehan Tahir in How2Power Today: |
| 09/16/19 | Novel Switched-Capacitor Converter Supports 48-V Power Architecture In Data Centers |
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| Joel Turchi
| Joel Turchi holds an engineering degree from the ENSEEIHT school, which is part of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. With 20 years of power supply design experience at Motorola and ON Semiconductor, Joel is a regular contributor of application notes for ON Semiconductor as well as articles for trade magazines. He holds 12 issued U.S. patents pertinent to control techniques, whereas six others are pending. Joel has originated several new concepts in the power conversion arena through the introduction of PWM and PFC controllers. Among these circuits are notable devices such as the MC44608 controller for flyback converters with secondary reconfiguration, the NCP1653 CCM PFC controller and the NCP1631 interleaved PFC controller. | | Articles written by Joel Turchi in How2Power Today: |
| 12/18/18 | Options For Optimizing PFC Efficiency Over Wide Load And Line Ranges |
| 10/25/12 | Frequency-Foldback Technique Optimizes PFC Efficiency Over The Full Load Range |
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| Jos van Loo
 | Jos van Loo is a technical expert on power semiconductors with more than 30 years’ experience. In his role as technical support engineer at Taiwan Semiconductor Europe, Jos consults with customers on rectifiers, MOSFETs and power management ICs. | | Articles written by Jos van Loo in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Avoiding Thermal Runaway In Schottkys Is Key To More Reliable And Efficient Designs |
| 01/17/20 | A Guide To Second Sourcing Rectifiers |
| 10/15/19 | How To Select Bridge Rectifiers |
| 09/16/19 | Secrets Of The Datasheet: What Rectifier Specs Really Mean |
| 06/17/19 | New Packages Offer Smaller Size, Greater Reliability For Rectifiers—With Some Tradeoffs |
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| Jos van Loo
 | Jos van Loo is a technical expert on power semiconductors with more than 30 years’ experience. In his role as technical support engineer at Taiwan Semiconductor Europe, Jos consults with customers on rectifiers, MOSFETs and power management ICs. | | Articles written by Jos van Loo in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/20 | Avoiding Thermal Runaway In Schottkys Is Key To More Reliable And Efficient Designs |
| 01/17/20 | A Guide To Second Sourcing Rectifiers |
| 10/15/19 | How To Select Bridge Rectifiers |
| 09/16/19 | Secrets Of The Datasheet: What Rectifier Specs Really Mean |
| 06/17/19 | New Packages Offer Smaller Size, Greater Reliability For Rectifiers—With Some Tradeoffs |
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| Yann Vaquette
 | Yann Vaquette has been an application engineer at ON Semiconductor in Toulouse, France since 2011.In this role he has developed several switching controllers dedicated to the flyback topology. After working on the design of high-frequency quasi-resonant flyback converters, he has developed a high-density version of a 45-W notebook adapter. He now handles the primary-side regulated controllers family dedicated to travel adapter applications. Yann graduated from the CESI engineering school. During his study, Yann worked part time with ON Semiconductor in Toulouse for three years before being hired as an application engineer in the ac-dc business unit. | | Articles written by Yann Vaquette in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/17 | Building An Average Model For Primary-Side Regulated Flyback Converters |
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| Deepak Veereddy
 | Deepak Veereddy currently works as a GaN application manager with Infineon Technologies. Prior to this, he held management and engineering positions in the areas of power semiconductor device reliability, characterization, test and design. Deepak received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2008 and his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Osmania University, India in 2006. | | Articles written by Deepak Veereddy in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/20 | How Application-Driven Performance And Reliability Requirements Shape Design and Qualification Of GaN Power Devices |
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| Marko Vekic
 | Marko Vekic, received the Dipl.-Ing., M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2005, 2007 and 2014, respectively. Since 2005 Marko has been employed on the Faculty of Technical Sciences in the Department of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines, first as a teaching and research assistant and then from 2014 as an assistant professor. In 2014 Marko co-founded PERUN Technologies. His expertise includes grid-connected converters and power electronics control algorithms, while his main activities are focused on product development. | | Articles written by Marko Vekic in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/16 | Open HW/SW Platform Accelerates Development Of Control Solutions For Power Electronics |
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| Vladimir Veljkovic
 | Vladimir Veljkovic has over 25 years of experience in professional grade electronics, primarily embedded, real-time and distributed systems. His professional career evolved from analog & mixed signal (high-power uninterruptible power supply systems) to complex HW/SW electronic systems (large-scale telecom switch). He is versed in mixed HW/SW development process with a focus on system architecture design, automated testing and quality assurance. In recent years he’s been involved in the IoT industry and also writes application notes for Dialog Semiconductor. | | Articles written by Vladimir Veljkovic in How2Power Today: |
| 11/15/18 | Configurable ICs Build Versatile, Low-Cost Regulated Charge Pumps |
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| Ron Vinsant
 | Ron Vinsant is a senior member of Technical Staff at uPI Semiconductor. With more than 30 years of experience in analog and digital power systems design, he has demonstrated success in engineering and application engineering roles at technology companies both large and small, including Vishay Siliconix, Powervation, Fairchild, Zilker Labs, SOMA Networks, Linear Tech, and Teledyne. Prior to joining the power industry, he studied physics at U.C. Berkeley, Calif. | | Articles written by Ron Vinsant in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/24 | Resonant Gate Drive Enhances Robustness Of GaN Power Stages |
| 09/15/21 | Integrated GaN Power Stages Enable High-Performance 48-V To 12-V Power Converters |
| 12/13/19 | Matching Driver IC And FETs Bring GaN Benefits To Low-Voltage POL Converters |
| 07/15/16 | Four-Terminal Inductor Achieves High-Accuracy Current Measurements For POLs (Part 2): Sources Of Error |
| 02/16/16 | Four-Terminal Inductor Achieves High-Accuracy Current Measurements For POLs (Part 1): Inductor Design |
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| Dionisis Voglitsis
 | Dionisis Voglitsis is an applications engineer at ON Semiconductor. He is responsible for the development and implementation of control algorithms and control schemes for motor control and charging applications. Before joining ON Semiconductor in 2019, Dionisis worked as a researcher for various European and national research projects, while he had also joined the Advanced Technology Center of Philips. Dionisis is the author and co-author of more than 30 research and technical papers in his field. He is also a guest editor for the “Energies” MDPI journal. He holds an engineering degree in energy engineering, an M.Sc. in wireless power transfer from TU Delft, The Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. | | Articles written by Dionisis Voglitsis in How2Power Today: |
| 08/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 5): Control Algorithms, Modulation Schemes And Feedback |
| 07/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 4): Design Considerations And Simulation Of The DC-DC Stage |
| 06/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 3): PFC Stage Simulation |
| 05/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 2): Solution Overview |
| 04/15/21 | Developing A 25-kW SiC-Based Fast DC Charger (Part 1): The EV Application |
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| Viktor Vogman
 | Viktor Vogman currently works at Power Conversion Consulting as an analog design engineer, specializing in the design of various power test tools for ac and dc power delivery applications. Prior to this, he spent over 20 years at Intel, focused on hardware engineering and power delivery architectures. Viktor obtained an MS degree in Radio Communication, Television and Multimedia Technology and a PhD in Power Electronics from the Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications, Russia. Vogman holds over 50 U.S. and foreign patents and has authored over 20 articles on various aspects of power delivery and analog design. | | Articles written by Viktor Vogman in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/24 | Quantifying The Impact Of Series Inductance On E-Load Edge Rates And Current Monitoring Accuracy |
| 02/15/24 | Load-Adaptive PSU Can Benefit Server Systems With Reduced Idle Power |
| 10/15/23 | Essential Considerations For Soft-Start Parameter Selection in DC-DC Converters |
| 09/15/23 | Tradeoffs In Raising The Maximum Duty Ratio In Forward And Flyback Converters |
| 06/15/23 | Characterizing Di/dt Of A CPU Operating With A Mixed Array Of Decoupling Caps |
| 04/15/23 | Stiff Voltage Clamping Reduces Input Current Ripple In Single-Ended Converters |
| 03/15/23 | Design Considerations For Use Of A Forward DC-DC Converter In Arc Welding |
| 10/14/22 | Using Current Transformer In Core Saturating Mode Enables DC Current Measurements |
| 08/15/22 | Stepdown Voltage Regulator With Reduced Input Current Ripple |
| 03/15/22 | Correcting AC Source Distortion Enables Accurate Power Factor Measurements |
| 10/15/21 | Linear Voltage Ramp Generator Supports Motherboard Power Cycling Tests |
| 06/15/21 | Bidirectional Switches Permit ZVS Operation In Single-Ended Forward Converters |
| 05/15/21 | Raising The Plateau Level In Valley-Fill PFC Circuits Improves Efficiency |
| 02/15/21 | A PSU Analytical Power Loss Model For Optimizing The Server Power Delivery Architecture |
| 09/15/20 | Using Local Energy Storage For Organized System Shutdown Simplifies Power Supply Hold-Up Time Requirements |
| 05/15/20 | Inductorless Heater Switch-Mode Control Enhances Configurability Of Server Motherboards |
| 02/14/20 | Transmitting Overpower Alert Signals With Low Latency Boosts Reliability Of Bus-Bar Power Lines |
| 11/15/19 | Accelerating UPS Wake-Up Can Improve Power Supply Efficiency |
| 09/16/19 | Using Mini E-Loads To Emulate Fast Slew Rates And High Peak Power Levels |
| 05/15/19 | Optimizing Transfer Switch N+1 Redundant Power Architectures |
| 02/15/19 | Using Power Delivery Path Resistance For Precision CPU Current Monitoring |
| 12/18/18 | Optimizing Thermistor Placement For Accurate Power-Plane Current Sensing |
| 10/15/18 | Energy-Based Efficiency Metric Helps To Optimize Server Power Delivery For Dynamic Workloads |
| 08/16/18 | Adaptive Overpower Protection Prevents Overheating In Power Distribution Networks |
| 06/15/18 | Calibration Of Copper Sensors Enhances Accuracy Of Nonintrusive Current Monitoring |
| 05/16/18 | Achieve Precise High Current Monitoring Using Standard Surface-Mount Resistors |
| 04/17/18 | Inrush Current Tester Enables More Thorough Validation Of Server Power Supplies |
| 02/16/18 | SEPIC Converter Simplifies Design Of Smart Electronic Loads |
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| Paul Vrabel
 | Paul Vrabel has worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 25 years. Most of those years were designing test circuits, fixtures and testers for various components throughout the Labs. During the past seven years, he has
worked in the Magnetics Department designing, developing, and qualifying function, in-process and design testers. Paul is a member of the Product Realization Team (PRT). Sandia is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. | | Articles written by Paul Vrabel in How2Power Today: |
| 01/26/10 | Testing Military Grade Magnetics: Transformers, Inductors and Coils |
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| Raimund Wagner
 | Raimund Wagner is the product manager for Rohm Semiconductor's EPM group, which is responsible for MCUs, sensors and drivers. Previously, he served as a product support engineer for MCUs and sensors. Prior to joining Rohm, Wagner was an assistant manager for product management, an assistant manager for customized product solutions, and an ASIC design engineer at OKI Semiconductor Europe. He graduated from the University of Kaiserslautern with an engineering diploma in microelectronics. | | Articles written by Raimund Wagner in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/15 | Controller IC Eases Design Of Quasi-Resonant AC-DC Converter Using SiC Power Switch |
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| Ed Walker
 | Ed Walker is president of Design/Analysis Consultants, Inc. (DACI), a consulting firm specializing in design validation, risk assessment, and optimization of electronics and electromechanical technologies. Walker is the author of The Design Analysis Handbook, A Practical Guide to Design Validation (Elsevier). He is also the creator of Design Master, a probability-based analysis software tool, which complements the handbook. You can follow Ed through the DACI Newsletter and the Engineering Thinking blog. Ed also writes edgy psychological fiction. | | Articles written by Ed Walker in How2Power Today: |
| 07/30/12 | Use Worst-Case Analysis Tool To Efficiently Validate Your Designs |
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| Jimmy Wang
 | Jimmy Wang works as a senior staff application engineer at Infineon Technologies China. He has 15 years of experience in power semiconductor technologies and power supply designs. His main area of application expertise is switched-mode power supply designs for telecom, servers, industrial power and fast chargers. Furthermore, his research areas are MOSFETs and wide bandgap power devices, and drivers for high-frequency applications. | | Articles written by Jimmy Wang in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/20 | Using Forced-Frequency Resonant Zero-Voltage Switching In USB PD Adapters |
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| Jianjing Wang
 | Jianjing Wang is a senior applications engineer at Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). Prior to joining the company in 2018, she was a senior engineer with ASTRI, Hong Kong from 2014 to 2015, and a research associate with the University of Bristol, UK from 2015 to 2018. Her experience includes power electronics packaging, active gate driving of GaN FETs, power device characterization, and designing various dc-dc converters. Jianjing received her B.Eng. degree in control science and engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 2014. | | Articles written by Jianjing Wang in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/20 | Designing An Ultra-Thin Stepdown Converter: Multiphase Vs. Multilevel |
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| Gordon Wang
 | Gordon Wang is in product line marketing for Fairchild Semiconductor's computing product segment. He has been with Fairchild for over seven years, and has experience in development and marketing positions in the power electronics industry. | | Articles written by Gordon Wang in How2Power Today: |
| 09/28/12 | A More-Efficient Half-Bridge LLC Resonant Converter: Four Methods For Controlling The MOSFET |
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| Dewight Warren
 | Dewight Warren is a product definer in the Mixed-Signal Business Unit at Maxim Integrated Products. He has a BSEE from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. | | Articles written by Dewight Warren in How2Power Today: |
| 06/24/11 | Add A Black Box To Your Big (Or Small) Box |
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| Ed Wenzel
 | Ed Wenzel is an applications engineer for STMicroelectronics in Schaumburg, Ill. He joined the company in June 1998 in the power lab for various power supply applications. He has more than 40 years experience in the power field with various topologies and semiconductors. Ed has a BSEE degree from Northeastern University in Boston. He has publications and app notes in the power supply area and for LED applications. Ed has been awarded two patents. | | Articles written by Ed Wenzel in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/11 | Eliminate The Guesswork When Selecting Primary Switch VDD Capacitors |
| 03/30/11 | Adjustable Clamp Circuit Enables Use of Lower-Voltage MOSFET In High-Voltage Flybacks |
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| Daniel West
 | Daniel West is a member of the Technical Sales Group or TSG. In this role, he is responsible for engineering support across N.A. on all AVX products. He regularly conducts training at end customer sites, internal technology trainings, and has published numerous articles ranging from energy harvesting techniques for IoT modules to electrolytic performance characteristics. Prior to this, he served as a field application engineer in the connector division. Previously, Daniel served in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division where he was a team leader and combat veteran. He received a BSEE from Mercer University. Daniel currently resides in Greenville, SC with his wife and two children and is an amateur radio operator. | | Articles written by Daniel West in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/24 | A Practical, Easy-To-Implement Energy Harvester For BLE Modules And Other Applications |
| 08/15/24 | New Capacitors Offer Better Balance Of Performance, Reliability And Cost For LEO Satellites |
| 01/15/24 | Prismatic-Cell Supercapacitors Enable Thinner Boost Circuits |
| 12/15/23 | Supercapacitors Support Miniature Energy Harvester ICs In Powering ULP Devices |
| 02/15/22 | Polymer And Hybrid Styles Improve Performance And Reliability of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors |
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| Bob White
 | Bob White is currently chief engineer at Embedded Power Labs and is a consultant to EPC. He has over 30 years experience in power conversion and has held management and individual contributor roles in product development, applications and systems engineering, and power electronics technology development. Bob is the principal author of the PMBus specifications. He has a BSEE from MIT, an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. | | Articles written by Bob White in How2Power Today: |
| 11/23/10 | High Step-Down Ratio Buck Converters With eGaN Devices |
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| Tim Wilkerson
 | Tim Wilkerson joined Analog Devices in 2001 as a senior field applications engineer located in San Jose, Calif. Prior to that Tim was with STMicroelectronics and Waferscale Integration in central applications. Previous work includes 20 years in design and development for several companies in the Midwest, most recently at Basler Electric working on protective relays for power systems. Tim received a BSEE from Purdue in 1976 and an MSE with Electrical option in 1997 from Southern Illinois University. | | Articles written by Tim Wilkerson in How2Power Today: |
| 09/17/09 | Switching-Regulator Insights: Achieving Longer Battery Life in DSP Systems |
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| Ernie Wittenbreder
 | Ernie Wittenbreder is widely recognized in the industry from his seminars, publications, and many patents. His areas of expertise include topology selection, design tradeoff decision making, high-efficiency design, soft switching, gate drivers, and design for EMC. His applications experience spans a broad range including high reliability and extremely low-noise converters for military and aerospace, telecommunications, solid-state lighting, very high density power supply in package (PSIP) converters, and a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications. Wittenbreder has developed a power converter computer simulation product and SiC gate driver IC. He also has a great deal of litigation experience in patent infringement lawsuits. Wittenbreder began his career as a physics professor and holds MS Physics and MSEE degrees and BS, math and physics. | | Articles written by Ernie Wittenbreder in How2Power Today: |
| 07/15/16 | Subharmonic Behavior In Current Mode Control (Part 2): The Causes And Cures At Low Duty Cycles |
| 05/16/16 | Subharmonic Behavior In Current-Mode Control (Part 1): The Causes And Cure At High Duty Cycles |
| 02/16/16 | Optimal Switch Timing Circuits for Soft-Switching Converters (Part 2): Circuits for Different Switch Functions |
| 01/15/16 | Optimal Switch Timing Circuits (Part 1): The Relationship Between Switch Timing And Available Energy |
| 12/17/15 | Leakage Inductance (Part 3): Improving Power Supply Filtering, Efficiency And Density |
| 11/16/15 | Leakage Inductance (Part 2): Overcoming Power Losses And EMI |
| 10/15/15 | Leakage Inductance (Part 1): Friend Or Foe? |
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| John Wolgemuth
 | John Wolgemuth is the principal power electronics engineer at Momentum Dynamics, a developer of wireless charging and power electronics technologies for the automotive industry. He is responsible for power electronics design for new systems entering the commercial and automotive markets. Before joining Momentum Dynamics, Wolgemuth was the lead engineer for a contractor that provided V2G PEV equipment to the Department of Defense. This equipment was deployed across three domestic military bases in aggregate excess of 500 kW. Each installed system was integrated with on-base energy management systems and vehicle reservation platforms to provide support to the local utility while maintaining reliable availability of the EVs. Wolgemuth also worked on deployments of stationary energy systems as second life applications for OEM EV battery packs. Wolgemuth holds a B.S.E. in both electrical engineering and mechanical engineering from Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, Penn. He is a member of IEEE, a member of SAE, and a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania. | | Articles written by John Wolgemuth in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/17 | High-Power Wireless Charging Of Heavy Duty EVs: Techniques, Challenges And Limitations |
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| Chapin Wong
 | Chapin Wong is an associate member of the Technical Staff for Maxim Integrated. He joined Maxim in 2013 after completing his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is currently with the Systems Applications team supporting customers with Maxim's signal-chain product line. | | Articles written by Chapin Wong in How2Power Today: |
| 12/15/14 | Amplifier IC Generates A Negative Voltage Reference With The Fewest Parts And A Single Supply Rail |
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| Albert Wong
 | Albert Wong is a graduate of UCLA. He subscribes to his philosophy of "Life is all about taking chances and learning from mistakes. It is necessary to have the passion of continued learning and have fun in life." In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, hiking, and playing board games with friends and family. He also likes to play classical music and video games to unwind after a long day. Albert plans to attend grad school in the biomed arena. | | Articles written by Albert Wong in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/15 | Infrared Light-Based Battery Charging And Communications May Improve Convenience And Robustness Of Implantable Medical Devices |
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| LK Wong
 | L. K. Wong received his Ph.D. degree at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999. Wong joined National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments) as a senior product application engineer in 2006, working in the area of power electronics including modeling, control, and dc-dc power converter design. Currently, he is focusing on high-efficiency, high-performance LED driver design for general illumination and backlight applications. He is a member of the IEEE. | |
| Kern Wong
 | Kern Wong is a principal applications and design engineer for advanced power management unit (PMU) ICs and regulators in Texas Instrument's Silicon Valley Analog Mobile Devices Power Group (formerly National Semiconductor). Wong has over three decades of experience working with analog circuits, bipolar logic ICs, CMOS mixed signal ICs and microprocessor-based systems. He holds over a dozen patents in a variety of electronic technologies, including bandgap reference, PLL_clock gen and PMU ICs. Wong received his BSEE and MSEE from UC Berkeley and Washington University, respectively. | | Articles written by Kern Wong in How2Power Today: |
| 10/15/13 | Demystifying PSRR Specifications For LDOs |
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| John Woodward
 | John Woodward is an executive business manager for power management products at Maxim Integrated. He has 18 years of industry experience, with ten years working on the engineering side in applications/test and eight years on the marketing/business side, helping drive product management. | | Articles written by John Woodward in How2Power Today: |
| 09/15/20 | A Flexible Design For Fast Charging Supercapacitors In Industrial Applications |
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| Huixian Wu
 | Huixian Wu currently holds the position of reliability manager for Vishay Intertechnology. She is a member of IEEE and AEC, and is the author of over 30 papers. Ms. Wu holds a B.S. in material science and M.S. in semiconductor materials from Zhejiang University; an M.S. in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. | | Articles written by Huixian Wu in How2Power Today: |
| 03/30/12 | Failure Analysis On Power MOSFETs With Copper Wire Bonds |
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| Robin Yang
 | Robin Yang joined Microchip Technology in 2016 as senior applications engineer in the Mixed Signal and Linear Division. His current role in Microchip mainly focuses on providing technical support for the application of mixed-signal and linear devices including operational amplifiers, a-d and d-a converters, along with temperature and power monitoring devices. Prior to joining Microchip, he had eight years of research and industrial experience in the design and application of analog ICs and sensors. Robin received his B.S. from Zhejiang University in electronics engineering, M.Sc. from Toulouse Paul Sabatier University in microelectronics and his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble in MEMS engineering | | Articles written by Robin Yang in How2Power Today: |
| 10/16/17 | Thermocouple And Conditioning Circuits Enable Accurate Temperature Monitoring Over Wide Range |
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| Felix Yao
 | Felix Yao joined Integrated Device Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in 2010 and currently serves as a senior application engineer. Felix brings over 10 years application experience in consumer and industrial products and holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing Southeast University. | | Articles written by Felix Yao in How2Power Today: |
| 05/27/11 | Energy Meter Design Operates Accurately Over Wide Current Range |
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| Bryan Yarborough
 | Bryan Yarborough currently serves as a product marketing engineer for Vishay Intertechnology's Vishay Dale brand, specializing in surface-mount Power Metal Strip current-sense resistors. Previously, he has served as applications engineer at TT Electronics IRC and Saft Batteries. Yarborough holds a bachelor's of science degree in computer science and an MBA from Appalachian State University. | | Articles written by Bryan Yarborough in How2Power Today: |
| 05/16/16 | Metal Alloy Resistors Offer Robustness And Other Benefits For Current Sensing |
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| Jae-Eul Yeon
 | Jaeeul Yeon serves as a principal application engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he has worked for over six years. A specialist in power electronics, Yeon is now in charge of HV discrete products in consumer power supply systems such as display power supplies, induction cooking inverters, health care systems, etc. Yeon received his Ph. D. degree in electric and electronics engineering from Hanyang University in 2006. | | Articles written by Jae-Eul Yeon in How2Power Today: |
| 05/15/13 | IGBT With Intrinsic Body Diode Improves Performance Of Single-Ended-Resonant Inverters In Induction Heating Applications |
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| Xuning Zhang
 | In July 2016, Xuning Zhang joined Monolith Semiconductor as a principal application engineer, focusing on application of SiC devices. His research interests include high efficiency, high power density converter design, system EMI modeling and filter optimization, interleaving and multilevel converters, SiC device characterization and driving scheme optimization, high frequency system integration, and passive component design and optimization. Previously, Xuning served as a research scientist at CPES for two years, with research focusing on high efficiency high power density converter design and optimization with wide bandgap devices. Xuning has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers for journals and leading international conferences. He has also presented several tutorial seminars during international conferences including APEC and ITEC-AP. Xuning received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his PhD degree from CPES-Virginia Tech. | | Articles written by Xuning Zhang in How2Power Today: |
| 06/15/18 | Selecting A Freewheeling Diode Solution For Lowest Losses With SiC MOSFETs |
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| Fred Zhu
 | Fred Zhu has more than 17 years of experience in the regulatory compliance industry including five years of inverter and converter testing for products marketed in the U.S.A., Canada, and Europe. He is based in the Pleasanton, Calif. office of TÜV Rheinland, which operates a unique network of nine testing laboratories for various power-level inverters located in the U.S.A., Australia, Germany, Greater China (Shanghai and Taiwan), Hungary, India, Italy and Japan. | | Articles written by Fred Zhu in How2Power Today: |
| 03/15/14 | Do You Know The ABCs Of Inverter Testing? |
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| Philip Zuk
 | Philip Zuk is currently the director of market development for high-voltage MOSFETs for Vishay Siliconix where he is working to grow the business with the company's new planar and superjunction technologies while taking on an additional role in business development for the implantable (life sustaining) medical market. Philip brings 20 years of business and technical experience to the table in the development and marketing of semiconductor devices and microcontroller-based electronic systems. Prior to joining Vishay, he held marketing positions at Microsemi and Medallion Instrumentation Systems as well as engineering positions at Fairchild Semiconductor and Vansco Electronics. Philip holds two patents and a trade secret award in RF technologies and has published a number of trade magazine articles in the power semiconductor field. He holds a BScEE and an MBA, both from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. | | Articles written by Philip Zuk in How2Power Today: |
| 04/15/15 | Application-Specific FOM: Key To Choosing The Right MOSFET |
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| Bob Zwicker
 | Bob Zwicker received a BSEE in 1974 from North Carolina State University and began designing switching power supplies in 1980. He has one patented invention for a method of secondary-side control of synchronous rectifiers. Bob became an applications engineer in 2002 and began doing semiconductor power applications with Analog Devices in 2005. He lives and works out of his home in Olympia, Wash. | | Articles written by Bob Zwicker in How2Power Today: |
| 02/16/16 | How It Works: The Current Doubler Demystified |
| 09/15/14 | Topology Twists And Circuit Tricks Improve Performance Of Multi-Output Converters |
| 05/24/12 | More Boost With Less Stress: The SEPIC-Multiplied Boost Converter |
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| Sudharshana _
 | Sudharshana received his B.E degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India in 2009 and his MTech from MIT, Manipal University, Manipal, India, in Power Electronics Systems and Control. He is currently working as a software engineer at Strategic Technology Group, Pune, India. His areas of interests are modeling and control of resonant and PWM dc-dc converters, embedded system design and development of motor drives hardware and firmware. | |
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