Principles of Power Electronics

John G. Kassakian is Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founding President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and has taught, conducted research, and consulted in power electronics for over 45 years. David J. Perreault is Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with over 25 years of experience in power electronics research and teaching. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. George C. Verghese is Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with over 40 years of research and teaching experience. He is an MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, and a Fellow of the IEEE. Martin F. Schlecht is the founder and CEO of SynQor, a supplier of high-performance power conversion solutions, and prior to that was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 15 years. He has over 40 years of research, teaching, and industrial practice in power electronics.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Form and Function; 2. Form and function: an overview; 3. Introduction to rectifiers; 4. Phase-controlled converters; 5. Pulse-width-modulated DC/DC converters; 6. Switched-capacitor and related converters; 7. Isolated pulse-width modulated DC/DC converters; 8. Single-phase switched-mode DC/AC converters; 9. Polyphase sources and converters; 10. Resonant converters; 11. AC/AC converters; Part II. Dynamic Models and Control; 12. Dynamic models and control: an overview; 13. Averaged-circuit and state-space models; 14. Linear models and feedback control; Part III. Components and Devices; 15. Components and devices: an overview; 16. Review of semiconductor devices; 17. Power semiconductor devices; 18. Introduction to magnetics; 19. Magnetic component modeling; 20. Introduction to magnetics design; 21. Magnetics loss analysis and design; Part IV. Practical Considerations; 22. Practical considerations: an overview; 23. Gate and base drives; 24. Snubber circuits, clamps, and soft switching; 25. Thermal modeling and heat sinking; 26. Electromagnetic interference and filtering; Index.