This text covers the basics of emerging areas in power electronics and a broad range of topics such as power switching devices, conversion methods, analysis and techniques, and applications. Its unique approach covers the characteristics of semiconductor devices first, then discusses the applications of these devices for power conversions. Four main applications are included: flexible ac transmissions (FACTs), static switches, power supplies, dc drives, and ac drives.

Salient Features

State of the art book—Covers emerging topics in power electronics.
Well-written and easy-to-follow.
Numerous worked-out examples.
State-of-the-art power conversion techniques and power semiconductor devices.
Integration of design techniques and problems.
Computer-aided design techniques and analysis using PC.
Integration of industry-standard software tools SPICE and MathCad.
Chapter-end review questions and problems.
Numerous important design formulae.
Review of Three-Phase Circuits, Magnetic Circuits, Switching Functions of Converters, Transient Analysis, and Fourier Analysis.
An examination of the characteristics of semiconductor devices—Including SCRs, GTOs, BJTs, MOSFETs, SITs, SITHs, IGBTs, MTOs, ETOs, IGCTs, MCTs and Spice device models.