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Powering the Future: Advanced Energy at APEC 2025
March 12, 2025
By Conor Quinn
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) and with this landmark, it’s important to reflect on how the industry has evolved, and what key trends to watch out for at the show.
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How the Latest Innovations in Switched-Mode Power Conversion Boosts Efficiency, Flexibility and Reliability in Today’s Power Systems
August 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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Powering the Future: Advanced Energy at APEC 2025
March 12, 2025
By Conor Quinn
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) and with this landmark, it’s important to reflect on how the industry has evolved, and what key trends to watch out for at the show.
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Energy Efficiency and Advanced Node Performance Key Topics at SEMICON Korea
March 04, 2025
Included alongside the new Omni™ RF diagnostic cart, Advanced Energy showcased leading semiconductor plasma power, power conversion, and critical temperature measurement products that help our customers make leaps forward
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Understanding Forward and Reflected Power in RF Systems
January 14, 2025
By Carl Gunther, Michael Shover
Reflected power is a fundamental concept in RF systems, yet it remains widely misunderstood. The term often evokes images of wasted energy and inefficient systems, but that is not the full, accurate picture. This blog explores forward and reflected power, clarifies common misconceptions, and discusses their relevance the demands of RF plasma power in semiconductor manufacturing.

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Discovering Precision Power Leadership at Advanced Energy’s Analyst Day
December 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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Industrial Electric Furnaces: Cost Reduction with SCR Power Controllers
December 04, 2024
Thermal processing control systems, such as the Rockwell Automation® Programmable Automation Controller, are fundamental to these operations. In addition, temperature measurement loops are required for control and shut-off. These are typically either thermocouples or pyrometers for harsh environments. Power control architectures that regulate energy input to furnace heaters via SCR power controll
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Optimizing Electroporation: The Role of High Voltage Power Supplies
November 26, 2024
By John Toro
The effectiveness of introducing substances such as antibodies, drugs, viruses, or any other materials into a cell is greatly enhanced by using a modern technique: electroporation. However, the success of the electroporation process is highly dependent upon the quality of the high voltage power supply.

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OCP Global Summit 2024: Shifts from Open, Standardized Hardware?
November 25, 2024
By Howie Granat
Since founded by Facebook (now Meta) in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) has been at the forefront of developing open standards for both enterprise and data center applications. It is backed by other hyperscale and enterprise entities such as Google, Microsoft, Dell and HPE. Traditionally, the OCP Summit has been highly influenced by Meta’s latest developments and how it is driving the industry. As OCP evolves, new standards and different approaches have been proposed as alternatives or additions, such as the Open19 19-inch rack solution supported by LinkedIn a few years ago. This year, the Summit saw some new trends in standards and form factors.