The shift toward industrial electrification is rapidly accelerating. Driven by efficiency improvements, sustainability goals, and advances in technology, electrification is transforming how energy is generated, stored, and delivered. While electrically powered technology is often associated with renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), its impact extends much further. Across manufacturing, transportation, energy infrastructure, and automation, organizations are increasingly redefining power system designs, driving a systemic shift from fossil-fuel to electric-powered industrial processes.

Modern missiles are packed with a diverse, ever-evolving set of multifunction components. While this makes modern missiles smarter and more efficient than ever, these converging technologies also increase RF complexity and can compound challenges within this fixed-size, compact platform. That’s why it’s important to understand how these subsystems impact one another and the RF solutions required to reduce the risk of interference and malfunction. 

 Across aerospace and defense applications, industrial systems, and medical devices, modern technologies increasingly depend on precise, reliable, and repeatable power delivered within tightly controlled timeframes. These requirements place growing demands on the components that store and release energy, particularly capacitors. 

The rise in automotive electrification, renewable energy systems, and high-density industrial power supplies is driving demand for power electronics that deliver more performance in less space, all without compromising safety or long-term reliability. In particular, engineers need compact safety-certified components that support high-voltage operation and stringent insulation requirements.

Ceramic core inductors are widely used in RF and microwave circuits where stable inductance, reliable performance, and consistent manufacturability are important. They are commonly used in filtering, impedance matching, oscillators, and other RF signal conditioning applications across a wide range of commercial and industrial designs.

As demand continues to grow for cost-effective and reliable RF components, Knowles is expanding its ceramic core inductor portfolio to support standard commercial, industrial, telecom, and medical applications that require dependable and consistent RF performance.

In 2024, we wrote about the growing power demands of artificial intelligence. At the time, 60 to 80 kW server racks were already stretching datacenter design assumptions. Now, AI server racks consumer 60 to 140 kW each, with NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 operating at roughly 120 kW per rack. Consumption could reach 600 kW by late 2027 with the Rubin Ultra NVL576 system. Beyond 100 kW, traditional server power assumptions begin to break down.

The performance of a resonant circuit comes down to its components. Two key factors, Q factor and capacitor equivalent series resistance (ESR), determine how efficiently energy moves through a resonator and how selectively it responds at its designed frequency.

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most advanced industrial processes on Earth, requiring precise control of energy and materials at the nanometer scale. Behind that precision lies an invisible backbone: the power electronics systems that deliver, shape, and regulate every watt of energy that drives chip production.

In high-voltage, high-reliability applications, safety is non-negotiable. That’s why safety capacitors are essential for mitigating the risks associated with transient voltages and electrical interference. 

Radio frequency (RF) generators produce alternating current (AC) at specific frequencies ranging from kilohertz to gigahertz.