Power Electronics Circuits and Devices
An Introduction to Principles, Harmonics Analysis, Filter Design and Electric Energy ApplicationsBy Malati Sridharan
Length16h 51m
About this audiobook
A rigorous yet practical introduction to power electronics, covering device physics, converter topologies, magnetics, control, harmonics, and grid-connected energy applications.
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GenreTechnology
Length16 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Power Electronics Circuits and Devices
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: What Power Electronics Does
71.1 Why Efficiency Drives the Design
81.2 Switching Versus Linear Regulation
91.3 The Converter Families and Their Roles
101.4 Duty Ratio, Ripple and the Vocabulary of Switched-Mode Conversion
111.5 Loss, Heat and the Real Limits on a Design
12Chapter 2: Power Semiconductor Devices
132.1 Diodes and Reverse Recovery
142.2 Thyristors, Triacs and Phase Control
152.3 Power MOSFETs and IGBTs
162.4 Wide-Bandgap Devices
172.5 Conduction and Switching Loss
182.6 Safe Operating Area and Reading a Datasheet
19Chapter 3: Gate Drive, Snubbers and Thermal Design
203.1 Gate Charge and Drive Requirements
213.2 Dead Time and Shoot-Through
223.3 Bootstrap and Isolated Drive Supplies
233.4 RC and Clamp Snubbers
243.5 Junction-to-Ambient Thermal Networks and Heatsink Selection
25Chapter 4: Magnetics for Converters
264.1 Core Materials and Core Loss
274.2 Inductor Design with an Air Gap
284.3 Energy Storage and Saturation
294.4 Transformer Turns and Window Area
304.5 Leakage and Magnetising Inductance
314.6 Skin and Proximity Effects
32Chapter 5: Non-Isolated DC-DC Converters
335.1 The Buck Converter in Continuous Conduction
345.2 The Boost Converter in Continuous Conduction
355.3 The Buck-Boost Converter
365.4 Discontinuous Conduction Mode
375.5 Ripple, Component Sizing and Stress
385.6 Efficiency Accounting and Loss Budgets
39Chapter 6: Isolated Converters
406.1 The Flyback Converter
416.2 The Forward Converter with Transformer Reset
426.3 Push-Pull, Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge
436.4 Resonant and Soft-Switching Converters
446.5 Synchronous Rectification
456.6 Multiple Output Regulation
46Chapter 7: Converter Dynamics and Control
477.1 State-Space Averaging and Small-Signal Models
487.2 Control-to-Output Transfer Functions
497.3 Loop Gain and Phase Margin
507.4 Compensator Design
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