Converting ac to dc has been accomplished by several different types of rectifiers through the years. Here are a few of the more common types of rectifiers used in the past 100 years. Mercury arc ...

When EDN debuted in 1956, it began to provide technical information to electrical and electronics designers as transistors began to change the industry. Take a look at these electronics developments ...

IN the Brown Boveri Review for October a very impressive list is given of the mercury arc rectifiers for power transmission which the firm has shipped to overseas countries. We are glad therefore to ...

The convergence of information technology (IT) equipment and telecommunications networks has brought about the need to power equipment with a variety of input requirements. Designers of today's ...

The switching speed of a power MOSFET charge-controlled device depends on the speed with which an associated gate driver circuit can charge its input capacitance. For the last 20 years, many excellent ...