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Part I:Power Electronics: Chapter One

This document provides an introduction to power electronics fundamentals. It discusses how the invention of the bipolar silicon transistor led to advances in electronics, and how the development of the thyristor in 1957 started the second electronics revolution and enabled new applications in power processing and motor control using power electronics. It describes how power electronics is used for electric power conversion between different forms using semiconductor devices and passive components, and can convert between direct and alternating current forms with varying magnitudes and frequencies, with the goal of high efficiency conversion and output regulation. It also classifies power electronic converters into four main types based on their input and output.

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Part I:Power Electronics: Chapter One

This document provides an introduction to power electronics fundamentals. It discusses how the invention of the bipolar silicon transistor led to advances in electronics, and how the development of the thyristor in 1957 started the second electronics revolution and enabled new applications in power processing and motor control using power electronics. It describes how power electronics is used for electric power conversion between different forms using semiconductor devices and passive components, and can convert between direct and alternating current forms with varying magnitudes and frequencies, with the goal of high efficiency conversion and output regulation. It also classifies power electronic converters into four main types based on their input and output.

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PART I :POWER ELECTRONICS

CHAPTER ONE

POWER ELECTRONICS FUNDAMENTALS

1.1 INTRODUCTION
The first electronics revolution began in 1948 with the invention of
the bipolar silicon transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories by Bardeen,
Bratain, and Schockley. This invention leads to the most recent advanced
in electronic technologies seen today. Also, modern microelectronics has
evolved over the years from these silicon semiconductors. In 1957, the
second electronics revolution started with the development of the four-
layer high power commercial thyristor by the General Electric Company
in USA. The invention of this device and its later applications in energy
processing and motor control fields has initiated a new era of power
electronics.
From the early 1960s until quite recently, the thyristor and its family
was almost universally used as the high power semiconductor switch
which leads to introduction of many different types of energy conversion
techniques. The energy conversion using power electronics achieves
conversion of electric power from one form to another, using a combin-
ation of high-power semiconductor devices and passive components,
mainly transformers, inductors, and capacitors. The input and output may
be alternating current (a.c.) or direct current (d.c.) and may differ in
magnitude and/or frequency. The end goals of a power electronic conv-
erter are to achieve high efficiency of conversion, minimize size and
weight, and achieve desired regulation of the output.
Power electronic converters can be classified into four different types
on the basis of input and output, dc-dc, dc-ac, ac-dc, and ac-ac, named
with the first part referring to the input and the second to the output.
Development of power semiconductors with very high voltage and current
ratings has enabled the use of power electronic converters in many

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