Power Electronics

Provides a comprehensive overview of power electronic circuits Fully loaded with examples, exercises and end of chapter problems Completely updated to include new content on digital control and micro-inverters for power electronics applications

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Issa Batarseh received his Ph.D and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Computer Engineering and Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990, '85 and '83 respectively. In a career spanning nearly three decades in education and research, Professor Batarseh has served in numerous research, academic and administrative positions at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is also serving as the Director of Energy Systems Integration at the Florida Solar Energy Center. He has published more than 400 journal papers, conferences, books and book chapters. He had 31 issued US patents and has co-founded two companies. He is a Fellow of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and a fellow member in AAAS, IEEE, and IEE. He is also registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Florida. Ahmad M. Harb receive his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech., Virginia, USA, in 1996. Currently, he isa Professor at German Jordanian University (GJU), school of natural resources engineering. Dr. Harb is a IEEE senior member. Dr. Harb is the Editor-in-Chief for two international journals, IJMNTA and IJPRES. Dr. Harb served as the dean of the School of Natural Resources Engineering at GJU between 2011-2013. Dr. Harb has published more than 70 journal articles and conference proceedings. His research interests include power system, renewable energy and power electronics, modern nonlinear theory (bifurcation & chaos), nonlinear control..

Inhalt
Introduction to Power Electronics.- Review of Switching Concepts and Power Semiconductor Devices.- Switching Circuits, Power Computations, and Component Concepts.- Non-Isolated Switch-Mode dc-to-dc Converters.- Soft-Switching dc-dc Converters.- Uncontrolled Diode Rectifier Circuits.- Phase-Controlled Rectifiers.- dc-ac Inverters.