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Advanced Energy’s Global Footprint Helps Ease Customers’ Tariff Concerns
May 02, 2025
Over the past few months, the U.S. Administration announced a range of tariffs on imports into the United States. Presently, it is hard to escape news about tariffs and the impacts of those tariffs on businesses worldwide. While customers have to navigate through uncertainties, AE is well positioned to help minimize tariff exposures.
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Key Considerations for Customizing Medical Power Supplies
January 06, 2026
Current trends in power supply units (PSU) for the medical industry are driven by advances in technology, precision, miniaturization, stricter safety standards, and the increasing complexity of medical devices. Medical PSU solutions must be carefully selected to ensure that they comply with strict medical safety standards (e.g. cardiac floating rating), offer high reliability, and are suitable for
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Improving Thin Film Quality: Advanced Pyrometry Solutions for Precise Vacuum Chamber Temperature Monitoring
October 27, 2025
Depositing materials in a vacuum environment reduces contamination and enables materials to travel unimpeded to the substrate. As such, this technique is an important industrial process for creating thin films and coatings across a diverse range of applications including semiconductor manufacturing, optics or glass and beyond.
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Are You Ready for Level VII Efficiency?
September 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Level VII efficiency standards are currently in the final stages before publication and are anticipated to come into force in about two years. The rules will impact several applications, from medical and industrial technologies to IT equipment as well as home appliances, lighting, consumer products and HVAC systems.
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New Safety Standards and Medical Power Implication of Transition to IEC 60601-1 Edition 3.2
January 22, 2024
When certifying a medical product, updates to an industry standard can make for challenging times for medical equipment manufacturers, especially when a standard is costly to publish, impacting the cost of compliance as well.
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Top 5 Medical Industry Trends from MEDICA 2023
December 27, 2023
Advanced Energy recently exhibited at the MEDICA and COMPAMED trade fair on November 13-16 in Dusseldorf, Germany. This year, MEDICA and COMPAMED drew more than 6,000 exhibitors and over 83,000 attendees from the medical industry.
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Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About the Anode?
December 04, 2023
A previous AE blog, Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About Duty Cycle?, discussed reactive sputter deposition of insulating thin films in large-area coaters, describing the benefits of using the Dynamic Reverse Pulse (DRP) power-delivery mode over the bipolar (BP) mode of dual magnetron sputtering. In DRP mode , dual targets are bipolar pulsed against an explicit anode and the duty cycle can be varied so that the polarity is positive on the target for a shorter time during pulsing. This allows clearing of charge build-up on the targets. In our studies, DRP mode showed increased deposition rate and reduced substrate temperature when compared to similar depositions with the BP mode.
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Top 5 Takeaways from OCP 2023
November 16, 2023
Last month marked our 6th year of engagement and partnership with the OCP community through the OCP Global Summit, which took place on Oct. 17 – 19 in San Jose, Calif. Our journey started with the ORv2 12V power shelf, and we’re now transitioning towards the next-generation 48V ORv3 power shelf.
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Sputter Deposition of Indium Tin Oxide: To Pulse or Not to Pulse
October 30, 2023
Sputter deposition characteristics of indium tin oxide (ITO) from compound targets for applications as a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) have been widely investigated to find deposition processes that optimize film properties
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Powering Electrosurgery: Precise Control and Delivery of RF Energy
October 23, 2023
Medical applications have made use of radio frequency (RF) energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or electrical currents for over 125 years. The ability to transect and seal vessels and tissue effectively and safely, for example, is a critical surgical task with RF-based techniques being the gold standard for cutting and cauterizing.
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