CONTENTS www.power-mag.com Issue 1 2026 Power Electronics Europe 3 News & Features Editor Leslah Garland Tel: +44 (0)1732 370340 Email: leslah.garland@dfamedia.co.uk Publisher Damien Oxlee Tel: +44 (0)1732 370342 Email: damien.oxlee@dfamedia.co.uk www.power-mag.com Production Editor Chris Davis Tel: +44 (0)1732 370340 Email: chris@dfamedia.co.uk Financial Manager Joanne Morgan Tel: +44 (0)1732 370340 Email: accounts@dfamedia.co.uk Reader/Circulation Enquiries Perception Tel: +44 (0) 1825 701520 Email: cs@perception-sas.com INTERNATIONAL SALES OFFICES Mainland Europe: Victoria Hufmann Norbert Hufmann Tel: +49 911 9397 643 Fax: +49 911 9397 6459 Email: pee@hufmann.info Eastern US Damien Oxlee Tel: +44 (0)1732 370342 Email: damien.oxlee@dfamedia.co.uk Western US and Canada Damien Oxlee Tel: +44 (0)1732 370342 Email: damien.oxlee@dfamedia.co.uk Japan: Yoshinori Ikeda, Pacific Business Inc Tel: 81-(0)3-3661-6138 Fax: 81-(0)3-3661-6139 Email: pbi2010@gol.com Taiwan Prisco Ind. Service Corp. Tel: 886 2 2322 5266 Fax: 886 2 2322 2205 Circulation and subscription: Power Electronics Europe is available for the following subscription charges. Power Electronics Europe: annual charge UK/NI £95, overseas $160, EUR 150. Contact: DFA Manufacturing Media, 192 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1BE Great Britain. Tel: +44 (0)1732 370340. Refunds on cancelled subscriptions will only be provided at the Publisher’s discretion, unless specifically guaranteed within the terms of subscription offer. Editorial information should be sent to The Editor, Power Electronics Europe, 192 High Street, Tonbridge TN9 1BE U.K. The contents of Power Electronics Europe are subject to reproduction in information storage and retrieval systems. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. Printed by: Warners. ISSN 1748-3530 PAGE 4 News PEE looks at the latest News and company developments PAGE 7 Market News PAGE 14 FastLane By Dirk Brauer, Research & Innovation Director at Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH; Dr. Sebastian Fritzsche, Manager Technology Scouting at Heraeus Electronics GmbH & Co. KG PAGE 18 IEEE Study Proposes a Novel HighEfficiency Silicon Single-Photon Detector Researchers develop a new detector with over 84% photon detection efficiency and multiple operation modes PAGE 20 Why scalable high-performance SoCs are the future of autonomous vehicles By Alec Schott, Texas Instruments PAGE 22 APEC APEC 2026 will take place from March 22 to March 26, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas, at the Henry B. González Convention Centre PAGE 24 Shrinking the Footprint of High-Current Switching By Takato Nabeshima, Product Marketing Manager - Relays, OMRON Electronic Components Europe PAGE 26 Advancing Power Efficiency with SiC Merged-PiN Schottky (MPS) Diode Perry Schugart, CMO & Head of Business Development, RIR Power PAGE 29 Web Locator Harnessing AI in space to enable faster communication and a new era of innovation Rad-tolerant DC-DC converter modules power AI1 Transponder for in-orbit computation By Salah Ben Doua, Sr. Principal Field Application Engineer EMEA Aerospace and Defense & Satellite Solutions, Vicor More details on page 10. FEATURE STORY Subscribe for your FREE copy now
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