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Modern Magnetics Design Power Supply ............................................................................ 64-67 By Dr. Ray Ridley, Ridley Engineering Dynamic Output Voltage Adjustment Technology ................................................................................. 24-26 By Matthias Ulmann, Texas Instruments Step Up to Half-Bridge GaN Power ICs Technology ................................................................................ 68-71 By Santosh Sharma, Dan Kinzer, Jason Zhang, Marco Giandalia, Increasing Power Density and Improving Efficiency Stephen Oliver, Navitas Semiconductor By Aly Mashaly, Manager Power Systems Department, Cover Story ................................................................................ 28-33 Rohm Semiconductor GmbH And Mineo Miura, Dry Film Capacitors for High-Frequency Power Electronics SiC Power Device Engineer, Rohm Co., Ltd. By Joseph A. Bond, President & Director of Engineering, MOSFET ...................................................................................... 72-77 Electronic Concepts, Inc. State of the SiC MOSFET Motion Control .......................................................................... 34-38 By Kevin M. Speer, PhD, Littelfuse Inc. and Dr. Sujit Banerjee, PhD, Operation of and Power Silicon for Cascade Cell Based MV Motor Drives and Kevin Matocha, PhD, Monolith Semiconductor Inc. By David Levett and Tim Frank, Infineon Americas with Márcio Sari WEG, Diodes ........................................................................................ 78-81 Uwe Jansen and Klaus Vogel, Infineon Germany High Current Welding Diodes for Demanding Industrial Applications Design and Simulation ............................................................. 40-41 By Ladislav Radvan, ABB s.r.o. 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