Principles of Power Electronics

By J. Kassakian, M. Schlecht, G. Verghese. 2023

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Substantially expanded and updated, the new edition of this classic textbook provides unrivalled coverage of the fundamentals of power electronics. Comprehensive coverage of foundational concepts in circuits, magnetics, devices, dynamic models, and control establishes a strong conceptual framework for further study. Extensive discussion of contemporary practical considerations, enhanced by real-world examples, prepares readers for design scenarios ranging from low-power dc/dc converters to multi-megawatt ac machine drives. New topics include SiC and GaN wide-bandgap materials, superjunction MOSFET and IGBT devices, advanced magnetics design, multi-level and switched-capacitor converters, RF converter circuits, and EMI. Over 300 new and revised end-of-chapter problems enhance and expand understanding of the material, with solutions for instructors. Unique in its breadth and depth, and providing a range of flexible teaching pathways at multiple levels, this is the definitive guide to power electronics for graduate and senior undergraduate students in electrical engineering, and practicing electrical engineers.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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On the generalized PI sliding mode control of DC-to-DC power converters: A tutorial (2003, background): “…to the several existing authoritative books on power electronics, namely: Severns and Bloom (1983), Czaki et al. (1983), Mohan et al. (1989), Kassakian et al. (1991), Rashid (1993), and many others, for important practical operation details and the discussion of available feedback control…”
Coupled-inductor design optimization for fast-response low-voltage DC-DC converters (2002, background): “This is in contrast to a conventional multiwinding transformer with the winding branches in series (or all the windings on the same leg) which enforces equal v/N on each winding, and requires that �Ni =0 [ 13 ].”
State feedback control of switched linear systems: an LMI approach (2006, background): “Among the dynamical systems that exhibit switching behavior, it is possible to cite the electrical circuits with electronic switches that define the important family of power converters [13], biochemical processes [7] and all the systems subject to switching control laws [15,21–23].”
A very high frequency dc-dc converter based on a class Φ2 resonant inverter (2008, background): “It is possible to describe the voltage-current relationship of a resonant rectifier in terms of an equivalent input impedance in a describing-function sense [9], [15].”
Optimization of Photovoltaic Power Systems (2012, background): “We do not give here a detailed description of quantities time evolution: interested readers can find such an analysis in classical power electronics textbooks such as [50, 51].”
Discrete-time maps for the analysis of bifurcations and chaos in DC/DC converters (2000, background): “As it is well known, (2) is a good approximation of the state evolution when the input is not constant but varies slowly with respect to the integration time interval . Moreover, since each configuration of the converter is linear and time invariant, the second term on the right-hand side of (2) can”
General Design Issues of Sliding-Mode Controllers in DC–DC Converters (2008, background): “Since the design of conventional pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) controllers in power electronics is small-signal-based, the system being controlled operates optimally only for a specific condition [12] and often fails to perform satisfactorily under large parameter or load variations (i.e., large-signa”
Modeling and simulation of power electronic converters (2001, background): “In particular, [ 45 ] derives a sampled-data model for the boost PFC (but sampling at the period of the rectified ac voltage rather than the switching period of the boost converter), and uses it to design a discrete-time feedback controller (with time constant on the order of the period of the ac in”
Use of a priori information in the identification of global nonlinear models-a case study using a buck converter (2000, result): “This seems to be in good accord with previous observations that a more complex model for a power circuit may predict observed open-loop behavior more accurately but may be less effective in controller design problems [ 13 ].”
Automotive power generation and control (2004, background): “Typical failure rates for field-effect transistors are higher than those for diodes, but not dramatically so (e.g., a factor of two [ 16 ]).”
Modeling and control of a synchronous generator with an active DC load (2000, background): “In (2), is the averaging period, normally equal to the shortest regular switching interval [ 5 ].”