Power Electronic Systems

1 Introduction

1.1 Evolution of Power Electronics

In the history of electrical technology spanning over the past four decades, a few developments have had a large impact upon the general area of power electronics (PE). These are the development and evolution of thyristors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and so on. During the past few decades, we have seen the impact of PE devices, consisting of thyristors, gate turn-off thyristors (GTOs), power diodes, power transistors, power insulated gate field-effect transistors (IGFETs), power insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), and so on in all aspects of modern motion control and power utilities [1]. The application of PE devices ...