Switching Power Converters

The Third Edition of Switching Power Converters goes beyond the design and analysis of conventional power converter circuits to discuss the actual use of industrial technology, covering facets of implementation otherwise overlooked by theoretical textbooks.

The Author has a broad experience in application of advanced power electronics concepts in industry coming from a 35-years career alternating academic and industrial R&D positions. Dorin O. Neacsu received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electronics from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. In 2005, Dorin was graduated from a MSc program in Engineering Management at Gordon Institute, Tufts University, USA. Since 1990 to 1999, Dorin has been with the faculty of the Department of Electronics, Technical University of Iasi, Romania. During this time, he held visiting positions at Universite du Quebec a Trois Rivieres, Canada, and General Motors/Delphi, Indianapolis, USA. Following 1999, Dr.Neacsu has been involved with the US industry (International Rectifier, SatCon Technology, and Azure Dynamics/Solectria) and with US academic activities (University of New Orleans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and United Technologies Research Center). Dr. Neacsu is currently an Associate Professor with Technical University of Iasi, Romania. Neacsu has published several ISBN monographs and academic textbooks in USA, Canada, and Romania. He has published over 110 papers or research notes, mostly within IEEE, organized 13 tutorials at IEEE conferences, and was awarded 4 US patents. Neacsu is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2000, and has an impressive volunteering track within IEEE. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Leader of IEEE PELS TC7 Committee for Critical Power, organizing or technical chair for several IEEE conferences. His research areas are in static power converters, PWM algorithms, microprocessor control, modeling and simulation of power converters, theories of innovation.

1. Introduction to Medium- and High-Power Switching Converters. 2. High-Power Semiconductor Devices. 3. New Semiconductor Substrate Materials. 4. Basic Three-Phase Inverters. 5. Carrier-Based Pulse Width Modulation and Operation Limits. 6. Vectorial PWM for Basic Three-Phase Inverters. 7. Flash Memory-Based Multi-Optimal PWM. 8. Practical Aspects in Building Three-Phase Converters. 99. Thermal Management and Reliability. 10. Implementation of Pulse Width Modulation Algorithms. 11. Practical Aspects in Closed-Loop Control. 12. Tracking Sinusoidal References. 13. Intelligent Power Modules. 14. Computer Analysis Tools. 15. Resonant Three-Phase Power Converters. 16. Component Minimized Three-Phase Power Converters. 17. AC/DC Grid Interface Based on Voltage Source Converters. 18. Parallel and Interleaved Power Converters. 18. 19.AC/DC and DC/AC Current Source Converters. 20. AC/AC Matrix Converters as a Nine-Switch Topology. 21. Multilevel Converters. 22. IPM Applications.