Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
- Understanding the interdisciplinary nature of power electronics
- Understanding the circuit theory, electronic circuits and semiconductor devices required to synthesize and analyze power electronic circuits
- Understanding basic power electronics applications from power supplies to motor drives
Topics Covered
- Nature and basic principles of power electronics; review of circuit theory; Fourier series and time-domain analysis of electric circuits with nonsinuisoidal periodic excitations
- AC power and three-phase circuits; transformers and concepts of magnetics used in power electronics
- Power semiconductor devices: semiconductor materials, transport in semiconductors, drift-diffusion model, generation-recombination models, review of the basic principles of p-n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, power MOSFETs, thyristors and insulated gate bipolar transistors
- Generic power electronic converters: line-frequency diode rectifiers, line-frequency phase-controlled rectifiers, DC-to-DC switch-mode converters, switch-mode DC-to-AC inverters, principles of pulse width modulation
- Power electronics applications: power supplies and motor drives; principles of operations and torques of induction and synchronous motors; frequency control of speed of induction and synchronous motors