Power Electronics Handbook

Power Electronics Handbook, Fourth Edition, brings together over 100 years of combined experience in the specialist areas of power engineering to offer a fully revised and updated expert guide to total power solutions. Designed to provide the best technical and most commercially viable solutions available, this handbook undertakes any or all aspects of a project requiring specialist design, installation, commissioning and maintenance services. Comprising a complete revision throughout and enhanced chapters on semiconductor diodes and transistors and thyristors, this volume includes renewable resource content useful for the new generation of engineering professionals. This market leading reference has new chapters covering electric traction theory and motors and wide band gap (WBG) materials and devices. With this book in hand, engineers will be able to execute design, analysis and evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to the business policies and product/program requirements.

Front Cover; Power Electronics Handbook; Copyright; Table of Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. Power Electronics Defined; 1.2. Key Characteristics; 1.2.1. The Efficiency Objective-The Switch; 1.2.2. The Reliability Objective-Simplicity and Integration; 1.3. Trends in Power Supplies; 1.4. Conversion Examples; 1.4.1. Single-Switch Circuits; 1.4.2. The Method of Energy Balance; 1.5. Tools for Analysis and Design; 1.5.1. The Switch Matrix; 1.5.2. Implications of Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws; 1.5.3. Resolving the Hardware Problem-Semiconductor Devices.

1.5.4. Resolving the Software Problem-Switching Functions1.5.5. Resolving the Interface Problem-Lossless Filter Design; 1.6. Sample Applications; 1.7. Summary; References; Section I: Power Electronic Devices; Chapter 2: Semiconductor Diodes and Transistors; 2.1. Semiconductor Diode; 2.1.1. Static Characteristics; 2.1.2. Dynamic Characteristics; 2.1.3. Common Types of Diodes; 2.1.4. Evaluating the Dynamic Characteristics of Real Diodes; 2.1.5. Series and Parallel Connection of Power Diodes; 2.1.6. Typical Application of Diodes; 2.1.6.1. Rectifiers; 2.1.6.2. Freewheeling.

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