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Finally they are here again, the sunny days. Here in Germany at the headquarters of Diotec, everything is in bloom and showing itself in lush green, including the hedges in the home garden. When it comes to maintaining hedges, shrubs and bushes, the electric hedge trimmer is an extremely useful tool. With its help, cutting and trimming plants becomes child's play.

The use of hedge trimmers goes back a long way in history. As early as ancient Egypt and Roman times, simple scissors or sickles were used to trim hedges and plants. The development of hedge clippers, in turn, was significantly influenced by the art of topiary. Topiary refers to the artistic design of hedges and shrubs in geometric shapes or figures. The art of Topiary has influenced the demand for specialised hedge trimmers and precise cutting techniques.

Our N-Channel Power MOSFET DI114N06PQ is ideal for motor control in power tools such as hedge trimmers. At a nominal 114 A and 60 V, it features low on-resistance, fast switching times and very low thermal resistance. The standard threshold voltage prevents incorrect switching on, which is particularly important for cordless power tools. Besides power tools, Diotec's Power MOSFET DI114N06PQ is suitable for all kinds of industrial applications, including DC-DC converters, synchronous rectifiers, power tools and much more.

Again, all AEC-Q101 qualified devices are in bold and package dimensions can be found on the last two pages for direct comparison.

DIJ2A3N65, DIJ4A5N65: 650 V MOSFETs with 2.3A and 4.5 A in isolated ITO-220AB package. Ideal for flyback converters and power factor correction.

DI280N10TL: 280 A and 100 V true power MOSFET in TOLL package. For power tools, DC-DC converters and DC drives.

DI7A6N04SQ2: Dual MOSFET with 2x 7.6 A and 40 V in SO-8 package. Space-saving solution for synchronous rectifiers.

LDI9332-ADEN: Adjustable LDO voltage regulator with enable function. Extends standby time of battery powered products.

The printed version "Transistors & Regulators" can be ordered by quoting part no. 3215.2 from orderconfirmation@diotec.com.

• Founded Februar 22, 1973 in Heitersheim
• Employs 300 world-wide
• A leading manufacturer of discrete semiconductor devices
• Headquarters in Heitersheim, Germany

In February 1973, three young engineers came up with the idea of a company/partnership that would produce and distribute electronic components. Paul Bauer, Ulrich Geisler, and Bernd Kelpe laid the cornerstone for what was to become Diotec Semiconductor AG. The company’s first production facility was a former printing house in the little town of Heitersheim in the very South-West of Germany. Fifty years later, Diotec has expanded well beyond its humble roots, employing 300 world-wide, boasting branches in Slovenia, India, and China, and a global distribution network with sales offices in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Diotec began in the seventies by focusing on the production of bridge rectifiers for its primary client ITT, with whom it had a special relationship, since many Diotec employees got their start in the industry there. The company hit a milestone in 1989 with the introduction of passivated rectifier chips, a revolutionary method that made it possible to conduct measurements directly on the non-planar chip, and thus to determine the quality of a chip before assembly. By the end of 1996, Heitersheim’s ChipFab was already using plasma technology, an ecological method that has all but eliminated chemical waste. This quick adoption of plasma technology, which had only been developed months before, has afforded Diotec a preeminant position internationally. Board chair Brigitte Kelpe refers to ecological production and sustainable working as "core values that we adhere to everywhere we are present."

From 2009 to 2011 Diotec was the market leader in Europe with its axial Schottky bypass diodes for solar modules. "We were at the right place at the right time," according to Dr. Saverio Barboni, chief marketing and sales officer. "The Trend toward solar modules had its start in Germany. Research conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg played a crucial role here. The solar market required something most companies lacked: particular bypass diodes for the PV-modules. We responded by developing an optimized technology specifically for the solar market, and soon became the market leader in this area. The flexibility that allows us to respond to customer needs and changing market conditions, combined with rapid delivery times, defines us today and sets us apart from the competition."

Since 2003 the management board consisting of Brigitte Kelpe, Dr. Saverio Barboni, and Jürgen Lämmlin has been at the helm of the company. They cite three innovations that account for the Diotec's resilience: its development of a measurement electronics that is at work in more than 100 of its worldwide systems for testing semiconductor components, an ERP software that allows all Diotec branches to be logistically coordinated, and the equipment it produces on site.

Today Diotec's line of products includes discrete semiconductors in industry-standard packages suitable for a wide variety of circuits in industrial, energy, mobility, lighting, and consumer applications. Exciting new developments help customers save space, cost, and raw materials. The SM4000, for example, is a new 4000 volt rectifier diode in an SMD package that is ideally suited for the input rectification of devices directly connected to the utility grid. These might include intelligent smart meters, LED street lights, and 4G/5G base stations, all of which need to be designed for high surge immunity that exceeds the capacity of most available components today. "We developed the SM4000 precisely to close this gap", says Udo Steinebrunner, product manager at Diotec. "The SM4000 further illustrates how flexibly we can react to the market."

The 50-year-anniversary will be marked by celebrations throughout the year, the kick-off being a reception in April at the new production site in Heitersheim's Tiergarten Strasse 15. Festivities for employees in all four locations will follow in the summer, as well as a distributors' meeting in fall.