Bob Erickson, a professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering at CU Boulder, was recently named a CU Distinguished Professor—the highest faculty rank bestowed by the university. Known for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atom edge Under the right circumstances, electrons can be freed of the rat-race commutes and high-stress traffic deep within a ...

The term ‘bandgap’ refers to the energy difference between a material’s insulating and conducting states, a critical factor determining its electrical conductivity. As shown in figure 1, with its wide ...

Energy infrastructure company Heron Power Inc. announced today that it has raised $140 million in new funding to build a 40-gigawatt, highly automated U.S. manufacturing facility for Heron Link, the ...

Power electronics is an interdisciplinary field that centres on the efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electrical energy through semiconductor devices and innovative circuit topologies.

Wide bandgap semiconductors have taken both power electronics and high frequency circuits by storm, replacing so many applications that were previously dominated by silicon-based devices, e.g., LDMOS ...

There’s a transition taking place in the power grid. Actually there are a number of transitions taking place and it’s a normal continuous process. Some are in the foreground while others are in the ...

After decades of domination by silicon, silicon carbide (SiC) is replacing it as the gold standard in high-voltage power electronics, including in traction inverters at the heart of electric vehicles ...

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a “molecular catapult.” In experiments lasting just 18 ...

One of the healthy aspects of the power engineering space is that the people involved typically consider themselves to be part of a larger community. Of course, other markets and application spaces ...

Unveiled at CES 2026, Tau's software-defined power electronics platform enables high-efficiency, scalable, and reconfigurable systems for electric infrastructure and energy services. Ion introduces a ...

Power electronics underpin modern energy systems and transportation, making the reliability and thermal management of semiconductor modules a matter of global significance. The field is marked by ...