Single-phase power factor correction (PFC) circuits—a kind of front-end AC/DC converters—are ubiquitous in a variety of consumer electronic devices, including laptop adapters, LED driver power ...

Providing power electronics design engineers with a convenient means of adding boost-type power factor correction to their switching power supplies, TT electronics BI Technologies offers a series of ...

Researchers develop a sensorless boost PFC method delivering near 0.9998 power factor and low distortion, enabling smaller and more reliable power supplies for consumer electronics. Single-phase power ...

Understanding power factor (PF) is important because it gives us a clear understanding of the efficiency of an electrical system. Put simply, it’s the ratio of true power and apparent power, which ...

San Jose, Calif.&#8212Renesas Technology's R2A20112 is a critical-conduction mode (CCM) power factor correction (PFC) control IC for AC/DC power supplies, which the company says is the first device of ...

How to design a ballast for integrated ballasts in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) that provide power factor correction (PFC) as well as normal ballast functions. The ballasts used in integrated ...

The phrase power factor frequently is used in the electrical and power electronics industry. For example, home, office, and industrial electrical equipment often is fitted with power factor-corrected ...