The losses in a bridge rectifier can easily become significant when low voltages are being rectified. The voltage drop across the bridge is a good 1.5 V, which is a hefty 25% with an input voltage of ...

International Rectifier’s new IR11672 synchronous-rectification IC drives a MOSFET in the secondary side of an ac/dc flyback and resonant half-bridge switched-mode power supply, providing the function ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power management leader, Kinetic Technologies, is expanding its Power over Ethernet (PoE) portfolio with the introduction of the KTA1170 dual active ...

IRVINE, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevation Semiconductor, a high-voltage power conversion solutions developer, announced today the release of HL9750, a device belonging to a family of ...

Linear Technology has released a controller chip that turns four n-mosfets into an active bridge rectifier and cut the expected voltage drop of a bridge from 1.2V to under 100mV, dramatically cutting ...

National Semiconductor has introduced what the company claims is the industry's first full-bridge pulse width modulation (PWM) controllers to integrate all four primary-side bridge MOSFET gate drivers ...

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

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has announced a family of active diodes which can reduce the 1.2V forward drop of 600V bridge rectifiers. “Both products are self-powered from the AC line and do not ...