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Discovering Precision Power Leadership at Advanced Energy’s Analyst Day
12月 06, 2024
By Edwin Mok
On November 19, 2024, Advanced Energy (AE) hosted its 2024 Analyst Day in New York City and provided a comprehensive view of the company to Wall Street analysts and investors. The executive team shared the company’s strategies, growth prospects, new products, and updated financial model. Investors also had the opportunity to view AE’s precision power products at demo stations and learned about the
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Taking the Temperature of Innovation
11月 04, 2024
By Tim Dubbs
Many industrial manufacturing processes require monitoring and control of temperature at key points in the operation to ensure the highest product quality, maximum throughput and optimized yield. To meet these demands, innovations are driving new precise and reliable thermal measurement solutions. Traditional technologies such as thermocouples and thermistors are giving way to more sophisticated optical techniques that deliver improved reliability and repeatability needed by modern thermal processes. This has led to the growing use of fiber optic sensors that are immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) common in industrial environments, and non-contact pyrometers that measure precise thermal radiation.
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Reducing RAN Running Costs with Advanced DC-DC Technologies
10月 08, 2024
By Andy Brown
The reliability issue is a significant pain point because a so-called “truck roll” (a visit by a service technician to the base station to repair or replace a component, circuit board or other assembly) is a costly last resort that service providers want to avoid. Unplanned downtime and maintenance costs can mount very quickly, reaching many hundreds of times the cost of any specific part or system that has failed.
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How the Latest Innovations in Switched-Mode Power Conversion Boosts Efficiency, Flexibility and Reliability in Today’s Power Systems
8月 27, 2024
By Joe Voyles
Power system designers today face intense pressure to raise conversion efficiency and save energy as they strive to deliver sustainably improved performance. One key to reaching greater efficiency is switched-mode power conversion.
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Sputter Deposition of Indium Tin Oxide: To Pulse or Not to Pulse
10月 30, 2023
By Gayatri Rane
Sputter deposition characteristics of indium tin oxide (ITO) from compound targets for applications as a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) have been widely investigated to find deposition processes that optimize film properties
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Powering Electrosurgery: Precise Control and Delivery of RF Energy
10月 23, 2023
By Todd Huston
Medical applications have made use of radio frequency (RF) energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or electrical currents for over 125 years. The ability to transect and seal vessels and tissue effectively and safely, for example, is a critical surgical task with RF-based techniques being the gold standard for cutting and cauterizing.
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Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About Duty Cycle?
10月 16, 2023
By Gayatri Rane
A previous blog showed that Dynamic Reverse Pulsing (DRP) mode offers several benefits to reactive sputtering of SiO2 through the reduction of substrate heat load by about 12% and delivered a 10% increase in deposition rate when compared to conventional bipolar pulsed (BP) dual-magnetron sputtering. DRP mode halves the power applied to each magnetron and shares the pulsing with an explicit anode,
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CT Imaging: Navigating the Complex Power Needs of Current and Next Generation CT Systems
10月 09, 2023
Computed Tomography (CT) is a computerized imaging technique used in radiology. A rapidly rotating X-ray beam and detector are used to generate cross-sectional images – so-called slices – that form the volumetric and very detailed internal image of the body.
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Engineered to Power Innovation: New Website for Power, Sensing and Control Integrates Full Artesyn Portfolio
8月 27, 2023
Advanced Energy is putting design solutions and products at engineers’ fingertips with the unveiling of its new website on August 29, 2023. The new, fully re-designed site now integrates comprehensive information on the Artesyn family of products and ensures rapid access to the key information needed to accelerate the development of systems built around advanced power, sensing and control solutions.
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SEMICON West 2023: AE Advances the Angstrom Era with Transformational New Technologies
8月 23, 2023
By Skip Larson
Last month, the semiconductor industry converged on the “City by the Bay” to discuss a wide range of solutions for design, manufacture and test. Under the banner of “Building a Path Forward,” more than 570 exhibitors showcased solutions at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. This year’s discussions focused on the opportunity and challenges the industry will face as semiconductor sales approach the $1 trillion level by 2030, up from $600 million today. Key issues that will either support or hinder the industry include closing technology gaps and critical talent shortages, along with limiting supply chain disruptions and the impact on climate change. What was clear is that delivering high-performance chips with increasingly complex 3D structures at atomic-scale dimensions is demanding more sophisticated wafer process solutions based on real world-processing data to accelerate modeling for faster design turns than ever before.