The costliest piece of equipment in a substation is the Power Transformer. Therefore, a good maintenance program is required to keep these power transformers operating reliable. Over the past few ...

Seemingly untouched by the telecom downturn's fallout, planar magnetics continues to proliferate in general-purpose dc/dc converter designs for high-frequency, high-efficiency applications. But planar ...

The United States is still years away from a fully developed market for high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) transmission lines, but many experts believe it is coming with several projects underway. In ...

Power infrastructure startup Alderbuck Energy has announced that it will deploy a solid-state transformer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, as part of a California Energy ...

In power supplies, dc-dc converters and many other power electronics circuits, chokes and transformers form an essential part of the filter network that provides low-ripple dc power. In many designs, ...