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Advanced Energy’s Global Footprint Helps Ease Customers’ Tariff Concerns
5월 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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Improving Thin Film Quality: Advanced Pyrometry Solutions for Precise Vacuum Chamber Temperature Monitoring
10월 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?
9월 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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Meeting Military Standards with Commercial Power Technologies
9월 15, 2025
In recent years, there has been an increasing adoption of commercial components and subsystems within defense and aerospace sectors, encompassing land, sea, and air applications. This is as true for power conversion and delivery technologies as it is for semiconductors, passive components and electro-mechanical parts, all of which must meet the standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). These standards are among the world’s most exacting and have been duplicated or referenced by many allied forces.
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Powering What Matters: AE Addresses Four Key Medical Trends at MD&M West 2024
3월 22, 2024
The Medical Device & Manufacturing West (MD&M West) tradeshow was held February 6-8 in Anaheim, CA with over 1,600 exhibitors and more than 14,000 attendees from the medical industry. Top medical device and equipment makers, power supply providers, thought leaders and engineers attend. Once again, Advanced Energy (AE) played a significant role as a featured exhibitor.
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Safety Requirements in Medical Equipment: Designing for BF and CF Classifications
3월 05, 2024
IEC 60601-1 is the most critical international safety specification for the design of medical electrical equipment. This standard defines classifications that impact safety-related design, which are based on how systems interact with patients.
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Advanced Energy’s Year of Transformation
1월 31, 2024
2023 was a year of transformation for Advanced Energy. In engineering, operations and digital, AE emerged stronger from the post-pandemic surge and leapt forward – better leveraging its collective of leading technologists, brands and operations to serve its customers better. Supported by a 40+ years of history, in 2023 AE was more effective, agile and inventive than ever – developing smaller, more
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New Safety Standards and Medical Power Implication of Transition to IEC 60601-1 Edition 3.2
1월 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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Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About the Anode?
12월 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
11월 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
10월 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