About Leistungselektronik

Leistungselektronik

Leistungselektronik is a German online specialist magazine for power electronics, published as a digital trade medium of the Vogel Communications Group. The portal at leistungselektronik.de reports on the technologies that convert, control and store electrical energy: power semiconductors, power supplies and energy storage, motion control, test and measurement tools, and the fundamentals of the discipline. With current news, technical articles, interviews, whitepapers, webinars and a newsletter, it serves the engineers and decision-makers of one of the key enabling technologies of the energy transition and electromobility. Its authors include long-standing electronics journalists such as Michael Eckstein, who has reported on the electronics industry for more than twenty-five years.

Overview

Power electronics is the technology that makes the energy transition work: every solar inverter, every electric vehicle drive, every charging station and every efficient motor control contains power semiconductors and the circuits around them. Leistungselektronik addresses the professionals who develop and apply this technology. The portal's topic structure reflects the discipline: Technologie as the overarching section, Leistungshalbleiter for the power semiconductors themselves, from silicon IGBTs to silicon-carbide MOSFETs and gallium-nitride devices, Stromversorgung und Energiespeicher for power supplies and energy storage, Motion Control for drives and motor control, Tools und Testen for development tools and measurement technology, and Grundlagen for the fundamentals.

The editorial offering combines the formats of the digital trade press. Current news covers the industry's developments: research initiatives, company strategies, market movements and technological breakthroughs. Technical articles explain the engineering: how to design gate-drive circuits, how to characterise fast-switching semiconductors, how to ensure the isolation of auxiliary power supplies in medium-voltage applications. Interviews give the industry's protagonists a voice, from the research coordinators of European projects to the executives of semiconductor manufacturers.

The portal's authors are specialist journalists of the Vogel Communications Group, one of Germany's major B2B media houses. Michael Eckstein, a Diplom-Ingenieur of electrical engineering who studied at the University of Dortmund, has reported from and about the electronics industry for more than twenty-five years. Susanne Braun covers topics such as battery raw materials and electromobility. The bylines of Erik Rehmann and Gerd Kucera appear on technical contributions, reflecting the portal's combination of journalistic and engineering expertise.

The offering is rounded off by the instruments of the digital B2B medium: a newsletter for the regular briefing, whitepapers for the technical deep dive, and webinars for the interactive knowledge transfer. These formats serve the information habits of development engineers: the quick update, the detailed technical document, the live discussion with experts.

History

Leistungselektronik is the power-electronics channel within the Vogel Communications Group's electronics media portfolio, which is centred on the Elektronikpraxis brand. Vogel Communications Group, based in Würzburg, is one of Germany's leading specialist publishers, with a portfolio of B2B media across industry, automotive, electronics and IT. The group's electronics media have accompanied the German electronics industry for decades, and the dedicated power-electronics portal reflects the growing importance of the discipline.

The rise of power electronics as a distinct editorial beat mirrors the technology's economic ascent. For decades power electronics was a niche within electrical engineering; with the energy transition, electromobility and the digitalisation of the power grid, it has become a strategic technology. The European research initiative "PowerizeD", which the portal has covered, illustrates the scale: coordinated by Infineon, it brings together 62 actors from 13 countries in a 72-million-euro project with the goal of making power electronics more intelligent. The portal documents this development from the German and European perspective.

The portal's archive reaches back many years, with technical articles such as the 2019 contribution on isolated auxiliary power supplies for stable power modules still available and still relevant: the fundamental engineering challenges of power electronics change more slowly than the headlines. The continuity of the offering, with long-serving authors and a stable topic structure, has made leistungselektronik.de a reference point for the German-speaking power-electronics community.

Content and Sections

The portal's content is organised by the discipline's sub-fields. Leistungshalbleiter covers the components at the heart of power electronics: the development of silicon-carbide and gallium-nitride devices, the market movements of the manufacturers, from the established players to the challengers, and the technological debates, such as the competition between IGBTs and IGCTs. The reporting follows the industry's cycles: the boom of electromobility, the consolidation among SiC manufacturers, the strategic moves of foundries and integrated device manufacturers.

Stromversorgung und Energiespeicher addresses power supplies and energy storage: the topologies, the components and the applications, from the charging infrastructure of electric vehicles to the storage systems of the energy transition. Motion Control covers drives and motor control, including the innovative approaches such as the 3D-printed motor developed by electrical engineers at TU Chemnitz that the portal reported on. Tools und Testen serves the development practice: measurement technology, characterisation platforms and design tools, such as the dynamic characterisation platform for SiC devices presented in a sponsored whitepaper. Grundlagen provides the fundamentals for students and career changers.

The formats serve different depths of engagement. News articles deliver the current developments in compact form. Technical articles provide the engineering depth, often with illustrations and application examples. Interviews, such as the conversation with Bosch eBike Systems' Claus Fleischer on the growing motor power in the pedelec sector, bring the industry's perspectives. Whitepapers offer the detailed technical documentation for download, webinars the live expert discussion, and the newsletter the regular overview.

Publisher and Organization

Leistungselektronik is published as an online specialist medium of the Vogel Communications Group, the Würzburg-based B2B media house. The portal is part of the group's electronics media portfolio, which serves the German electronics industry with print magazines, online portals, events and digital services. Detailed information about the portal's dedicated editorial leadership is not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted; the bylines identify the contributing editors, including Michael Eckstein as editor of the Vogel Communications Group.

The business model is that of the digital B2B specialist medium: advertising from the suppliers of the power-electronics industry, sponsored content such as the whitepapers presented on the portal, and the lead-generation services of webinars and downloads. The readership of development engineers and technical decision-makers is the exact target group of the semiconductor manufacturers, the test-and-measurement providers and the component distributors who advertise on the portal. The Vogel group's portfolio logic supports the portal: advertisers can address the electronics industry across the group's media, from the broad electronics titles to the specialised power-electronics channel.

Digital Presence

The website leistungselektronik.de is the magazine itself: a pure online medium with no print edition. The site is in German and is updated continuously with news and technical articles, organised by the topic sections and searchable through the archive. Author pages present the contributing editors and their articles, giving the portal a journalistic face.

The newsletter is the portal's regular briefing instrument, delivering the essential developments to subscribers. Whitepapers provide the technical deep dives for download, and webinars offer the interactive format for knowledge transfer. These digital instruments are the core of the portal's offering: for a specialist audience of engineers, the value lies in the continuous, searchable, technically deep online presence.

As the power-electronics channel of one of Germany's major B2B media houses, Leistungselektronik serves a technology that has moved from the niche to the centre of the industrial transformation. From its digital home at leistungselektronik.de, it reports on the semiconductors, the circuits and the systems that convert the energy of the future, online every day.