Offering step-by-step, in-depth coverage, the new Third Edition of Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design provides a cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. The text describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. The new edition is now enhanced with a new CD-ROM, complete with PSpice-based examples, a new magnetics design program, and PowerPoint slides.
PART
1. INTRODUCTION;
Chapter
1. Power Electronic Systems;
Chapter
2.
Overview of Power Semiconductor Switches;
Chapter
3. Review of Basic
Electrical and Magnetic Circuit Concepts;
Chapter
4. Computer Simulation of
Power Electronic Converters and Systems; PART
2. GENERIC POWER ELECTRONIC
CIRCUITS;
Chapter
5. Line-Frequency Diode Rectifiers: Line-Frequency ac
Uncontrolled dc;
Chapter
6. Line-Frequency Phase-Controlled Rectifiers and
Inverters: Line-Frequency ac Controlled dc;
Chapter
7. dc-dc Switch-Mode
Converters;
Chapter
8. Switch-Mode dc-ac Inverters: dc Sinusoidal ac;
Chapter
9. Resonant Converters: Zero-Voltage and/or Zero-Current Switchings; PART
3.
POWER SUPPLY APPLICATIONS;
Chapter
10. Switching dc Power Supplies;
Chapter
11. Power Conditioners and Uninterruptible Power Supplies; PART
4. MOTOR
DRIVE APPLICATIONS;
Chapter
12. Introduction to Motor Drives;
Chapter
13. dc
Motor Drives;
Chapter
14. Induction Motor Drives;
Chapter
15. Synchronous
Motor Drives; PART
5. OTHER APPLICATIONS;
Chapter
16. Residential and
Industrial Applications;
Chapter
17. Electric Utility Applications;
Chapter
18. Optimizing the Utility Interface with Power Electronic Systems; PART
6.
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;
Chapter
19. Basic Semiconductor Physics;
Chapter
20.
Power Diodes;
Chapter
21. Bipolar Junction Transistors;
Chapter
22. Power
MOSFETs;
Chapter
23. Thyristors;
Chapter
24. Gate Turn-Off Thyristors;
Chapter
25. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors;
Chapter
26. Emerging Devices
and Circuits; PART
7. PRACTICAL CONVERTER DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS;
Chapter
27.
Snubber Circuits;
Chapter
28. Gate and Base Drive Circuits;
Chapter
29.
Component Temperature Control and Heat Sinks;
Chapter
30. Design of Magnetic
Components; Index.
Ned Mohan is the Oscar A. Schott Professor of Power Electronics at the University of Minnesota, He has numerous patents and publications in this field. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Tore M. Undeland is a professor in Power Electronics in the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. He is also a scientific advisor to the SINTEF Energy Research. William P. Robbins is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he was a research engineer at the Boeing Company.
