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Product category: Discrete Power Devices
News Release from: STMicroelectronics | Subject: HiTj Snubberless triacs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 February 2008
Triacs maintain performance up to 150C
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Devices enable the use of considerably smaller heatsinks, and also allow the end product to benefit from more reliable operation in hot environments.
STMicroelectronics has developed a new series of high-temperature triacs that maintain full specified performance up to a junction temperature of 150C, and which deliver outstanding turn-off capability - ideal for appliance motor-control applications, in particular - at their maximum temperature The high-junction-temperature triacs will enable manufacturers to lower their costs by using considerably smaller heatsinks, and also allow the end product to benefit from more reliable operation in hot environments