Sick of the brick? Piezoelectric transformers poised to shrink power converters

Even though electronic devices have become significantly smaller in past decades, adapters for charging and supplying power to those devices have remained largely the same. Adapters--technically known as power converters--have not changed simply because of limitations of electromagnetic transformers...

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Published inAmerican Ceramic Society. American Ceramic Society Bulletin Vol. 95; no. 3; p. 18
Main Authors Gurdal, A Erkan, Tuncdemir, S, Randall, CA
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbus American Ceramic Society 01.04.2016
Subjects
Ceramics
Electric power
Transformers
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Summary:Even though electronic devices have become significantly smaller in past decades, adapters for charging and supplying power to those devices have remained largely the same. Adapters--technically known as power converters--have not changed simply because of limitations of electromagnetic transformers.
ISSN:0002-7812
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