POWER ELECTRONICS HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition

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Introduction

Philip T. Krein, Ph.D.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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 Functions

1.5.5 Resolving the Interface Problem –Lossless Filter Design

1.6 Sample Applications

1.7 Summary

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