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Short Course – Introduction to Power Electronics
October 28, 2019 @ 8:00 am - October 30, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Power electronics connects four subfields: electronics, magnetics, energy conversion and control systems. Using applications, examples and hands-on demonstrations, you will learn the basics and nuances.
Topics include:
- Review of diodes, semiconductors, fundamentals of power electronics
- DC/DC converters
- Rectifiers, Inductors, Capacitors
- Buck Converter
- Single and Three-phase Inverters and Modulation
- Gate drives and Sensors
- Cooling, layout and EMI considerations
- DC bus design considerations
- Laboratory demonstrations
- Resonant converters
- Multi-level converters
- EMI
- Thermal design of power electronics
- Reliability of power electronics
- New power semiconductor switches – SiC and GaN
